The Gipsy Encampments (District of Tandridge) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1125

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Gipsy Encampments (District of Tandridge) Order 1991

Made

2nd May 1991

Laid before Parliament

10th May 1991

Coming into force

31st May 1991

The Secretary of State, being satisfied that adequate provision ismade in the area of the District of Tandridge for the accommodation ofgipsies residing in or resorting to that area, on the joint applicationof the councils of the County of Surrey and the District of Tandridge,and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(2) of the CaravanSites Act 1968(1), and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Gipsy Encampments (District ofTandridge) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 31st May 1991.

2.  The area of the District of Tandridge is designated as an area towhich section 10 (prohibition of unauthorised camping in designatedareas) of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 applies.

Michael Heseltine

Secretary of State for the Environment

2nd May 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the District of Tandridge as an area to which section 10 of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 applies.

It is an offence within a designated area for a gipsy to station a caravan for the purpose of residing for any period on any land within the boundaries of a highway, or on any other unoccupied land, or on any occupied land without the consent of the occupier.

Under section 11 of the Act (substituted by section 174 of the Local Government, Planningand Land Act 1980), unlawfully stationed caravansand their occupants may be removed by order of a magistrates' court.

(1)

1968 c 52; section 12 was substituted by section 175 ofthe Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), and was amendedby paragraph 11 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).

(2)

S.I. 1970/1681.