The Tyne and Wear Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Various Local Authorities) Order 1989

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Various Local Authorities) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order–

“the Corporation” means the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation;

“statutory undertakers” does not include any statutory undertakers in relation to whom the Secretary of State for the Environment is not the appropriate Minister(1);

“urban development area” means the area designated as an urban development area by the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1987(2).

(2) Any reference in this Order to a map followed immediately by a number is a reference to the map so numbered in the set of maps numbered 1 to 9 entitled “Maps referred to in the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Various Local Authorities) Order 1989”, of which prints, signed by an Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, the councils of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, the boroughs of North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland and the Corporation.

(3) Any reference in this Order to a numbered plot is a reference to the plot so numbered and shown bounded externally with a black line and either stippled or edged internally with a stippled band on a numbered map.

3.—(1) The land described in

(a) Part 1 of the Schedule hereto, and now vested in the council of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne,

(b) Part 2 of the Schedule hereto, and now vested in the council of the borough of North Tyneside,

(c) Part 3 of the Schedule hereto, and now vested in the council of the borough of South Tyneside, and

(d) Part 4 of the Schedule hereto, and now vested in the council of the borough of Sunderland

or, in each case, in another local authority or statutory undertakers or other public body or in a subsidiary of any of them, being land within the urban development area, is hereby vested in the Corporation.

(2) Nothing in this article shall operate to vest in the Corporation the land known as Redheugh Bridge or High Level Bridge, in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Easements and rights in or over land

4.  All existing easements and rights in or over other land within the urban development area which are vested in an authority or body mentioned in article 3 above, and which are annexed or appurtenant to land vested by that article or any part thereof, are hereby vested in the Corporation.

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

7th June 1989