The Gipsy Encampments (East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley) Order 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 2980

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Gipsy Encampments (East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley) Order 1993

Made

2nd December 1993

Laid before Parliament

9th December 1993

Coming into force

30th December 1993

The Secretary of State, being satisfied that adequate provision is made in the area of the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley for the accommodation of gipsies residing in or resorting to that area, on the joint application of the councils of the County of Humberside and the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley, 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 (East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 30th December 1993.

2.  The area of the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley 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

David Curry

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment

2nd December 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley 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.

(1)

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).

(2)

S.I. 1970/1681.