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Statutory Instruments
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
27th April 1994
Laid before Parliament
28th April 1994
Coming into force
19th May 1994
The Secretary of State, being satisfied that adequate provision is made in the area of the District of Wychavon for the accommodation of gipsies residing in or resorting to that area, on the joint application of the councils of the County of Hereford and Worcester and the District of Wychavon, 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 Wychavon) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 19th May 1994.
2. The area of the District of Wychavon 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
Tony Baldry
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment
27th April 1994
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates the District of Wychavon 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.
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