English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981

Miscellaneous and general

8 Extension of Secretary of State's power to acquire land

The power to acquire land conferred on the Secretary of State by section 5 of the [1972 c. 5.] Local Employment Act 1972 (provision of sites and premises) shall include power to acquire land with a view to transferring it to the Corporation.

9 Amendments, transitional provisions and repeals. 10. Short title, commencement and extent

(1) in subsection (1) of section 60 of the [1954 c. 56.] Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (special provisions as to premises of which an Industrial Estates Corporation, among others, is the landlord) for the words " an Industrial Estates Corporation " there shall be substituted the words " the English Industrial Estates Corporation ".

(2) In section 17(1) of the [1972 c. 5.] Local Employment Act 1972 (Secretary of State's accounts and reports)—

(a) for the words " section 12(4) of this Act" there shall be substituted the words " section 7(4) of the English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981 " ;

(b) in paragraph (a) after the words "this Act" there shall be added the words " and the English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981 " ; and

(c) in paragraph (b) for the words " all the industrial estates corporations" there shall be substituted the words " the English Industrial Estates Corporation ".

(3) Planning permission shall be deemed to have been granted under section 29 of the [1971 c. 78.] Town and Country Planning Act 1971 in respect of any development initiated by the Corporation before the end of March 1981.

(4) The enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(5) The repeal by this Act of section 11(1) of the [1980 c. 33.] Industry Act 1980 does not affect—

(a) the title of the Corporation to land vested in it by virtue of that section ; or

(b) any rights, liabilities or obligations relating to any such land and in existence immediately before that repeal took effect.

10 Short title, commencement and extent.

(1) This Act may be cited as the English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981.

(2) This Act shall come into force at the expiry of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) below, this Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.

(4) The following provisions of this Act extend to Scotland—

(a) section 9(2); and

(b) section 9(4) and Schedule 2, to the extent that the provisions repealed extend to Scotland.