New Towns Act 1981

56Development Board for Rural Wales

(1)This Part of this Act applies in relation to the Development Board for Rural Wales (" the Board ") and any new town within the area for which the Board is responsible under the [1976 c. 75.] Development of Rural Wales Act 1976 as it applies to a new town corporation for any new town and that town, subject to the modifications specified in this section.

(2)A dwelling is a " dwelling of a new town " if it is—

(a)a dwelling (whether or not in the area of the new town concerned) erected, adapted or acquired by the Board for occupation as a dwelling, and

(b)so erected, adapted or acquired for the purpose of developing any area of a new town or new town situated within the area for which the Board is responsible under that Act of 1976.

(3)A transfer scheme shall, in addition to specifying under section 44(7)(b) above the number or proportion of dwellings in respect of which the right to nominate tenants is conferred by the scheme, specify the period for which the right is to be exercisable.

(4)The Board's right under subsection (3) above shall only be exercisable during the period of 5 years beginning with the date on which the Board's interests in the transferred dwellings vest in the district council or such less period as may, with the Secretary of State's consent, be agreed between the Board and the council.

(5)In relation to section 47 above—

(a)the powers, rights, liabilities and obligations of the Board which are excepted by subsection (8) of that section from those which a district council are to have in relation to land managed under a transfer scheme include any powers, rights, liabilities and obligations which are certified by the Board as being appropriate for the Board to retain to enable them to complete their function of laying out and developing the new town; and

(b)subsection (9) of that section shall apply as if the certificate had been given under subsection (8)(c).