The Teesside Development Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking and Functions) Order 1998

• Citation: S.I. 1998/570
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Teesside Development Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking and Functions) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“ the Act ” means the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990;

“ the Commission ” means the Commission for the New Towns;

“the Corporation” means the Teesside Development Corporation;

“the functions” means all of the functions conferred on the Corporation by the Act; and

“the undertaking” means all of the undertaking authorised by the Act.

Section 3 Transfer of functions

Subject to the following provisions of this Order—

(a) the undertaking and functions are hereby transferred to the Commission;

(b) references in the Act to an officer of the Corporation shall be construed as references to an employee of the Commission; and

(c) anything which before the date of the coming into force of this Order was in the process of being done by, to or in relation to the Corporation in connection with any of the functions or the undertaking may be continued after that date by, to or in relation to the Commission.

Section 4 Byelaws

(1) Any byelaws made under section 50 of the Act before the date of the coming into force of this Order, shall continue in force after that date as if they had been made by the Commission.

(2) Section 50(9) of the Act shall apply as though the reference to the Chief Executive of the Corporation were to an employee of the Commission appointed for the purposes of that section.