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Statutory Instruments
OPEN SPACES, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
6th June 2005
Laid before Parliament
8th June 2005
Coming into force
1st July 2005
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 162(4) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005(1), hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Royal Parks (Regulation of Specified Parks) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 1st July 2005.
2. The following parks, gardens, recreation grounds, open spaces or other land in the metropolitan police district are hereby specified for the purposes of section 162 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Regulation of specified parks):
Abingdon Street Garden, being the garden constructed on the sites of properties formerly known as 17-28 (both inclusive) Abingdon Street, London, SW1, the garden surrounding the adjoining Jewel Tower, and the lawn surrounding the King George V Memorial;
Brompton Cemetery;
Bushy Park;
The Longford River and those parts of its banks which are for the time being under the control or management of the Secretary of State;
Those parts of Greenwich Park which are for the time being under the control or management of the Secretary of State;
Grosvenor Square Garden;
Hampton Court Gardens;
Hampton Court Green;
Hampton Court Park;
The Barge Walk (Hampton Court), being the whole of the riverside land under the control or management of the Secretary of State between Kingston and Hampton Court Bridges between the River Thames and the outer walls, gates, railings or fences of Hampton Court Park and Hampton Court Gardens;
Hyde Park;
Kensington Gardens;
Primrose Hill;
The Regent’s Park;
Richmond Park;
St James’s and The Green Parks;
Tower Gardens;
Victoria Tower Gardens;
The Treasury Garden.
David Lammy
Minister for Culture
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
6th June 2005
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order specifies the parks, gardens, recreation grounds, open spaces or other land in the metropolitan police district to which the Parks Regulation Act 1872 will cease to apply when the Royal Parks Constabulary is abolished under section 161 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. Section 2 of the Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1926 (Power to make regulations) will continue to apply to the specified parks in the same way as it applies to other parks to which the 1872 Act applies.
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