Statutory Instruments
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
23rd August 1993
Laid before Parliament
31st August 1993
Coming into force
21st September 1993
The Secretary of State, being satisfied that adequate provision is made in the area of the District of South Shropshire for the accommodation of gipsies residing in or resorting to that area, on the joint application of the councils of the County of Shropshire and the District of South Shropshire, and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(2) of the Caravan Sites 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 of South Shropshire) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 21st September 1993.
2. The area of the District of South Shropshire is designated as an area to which section 10 of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 (prohibition of unauthorised camping in designated areas) applies.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
G.S.K. Young
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
23rd August 1993
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates the District of South Shropshire 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, Planning and Land Act 1980), unlawfully stationed caravans and their occupants may be removed by order of a magistrates' court.
1968 c. 52; section 12 was substituted by section 175 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), and was amended by paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).
S.I. 1970/1681.