The Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the South East) Order 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/625
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the South East) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

Section 2 Designated rural areas

The following areas shall be designated rural areas for the purposes of section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire) and section 1AA(3)(a) and (5) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (additional right to enfranchise)—

(a) those parishes and the unparished area in the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex specified in Schedule 1 to this Order; and

(b) those areas in the parishes and the unparished areas in the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex specified in Schedule 2 to this Order each shown bounded with a black line and cross hatched on one of the two hundred and two maps entitled “Maps referred to in the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the South East) Order 1997” of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment.