Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Black Country Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (General) Order 1988 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the Corporation” means the Black Country Development Corporation;

“statutory undertakers” does not include any statutory undertakers in relation to whom the Secretary of State for the Environment is not the appropriate Minister;

“urban development area” means the area designated as an urban development area by the Black Country Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1987(2).

(2) Any reference in this Order to a map followed immediately by a number is a reference to the map so numbered in the set of maps numbered 1 to 33 entitled “Maps referred to in the Black Country Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (General) Order 1988”, of which prints, signed by an Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, the British Waterways Board, the Severn—Trent Water Authority, the councils of the boroughs of Sandwell and Walsall and the Corporation.

(3) Any reference in this Order to a numbered plot is a reference to the plot so numbered and shown bounded externally with a black line and edged internally with a stippled band on a numbered map.

Vesting of land

3.  The land described in the Schedule hereto and now vested in a statutory undertaker or local authority mentioned in the Schedule or in any other local authority or statutory undertakers or other public body or in a subsidiary of any of them, being land within the urban development area, is hereby vested in the Corporation.

Easements and rights in or over land

4.  All existing easements and rights in or over other land within the urban development area which are vested in an authority or body mentioned in article 3 above, and which are annexed or appurtenant to land vested by that article or any part thereof, are hereby vested in the Corporation.

Article 3

THE SCHEDULE

PART 1THE BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD

PART 2THE SEVERN—TRENT WATER AUTHORITY

PART 3THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SANDWELL

PART 4THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF WALSALL

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order vests in the Black Country Development Corporation certain land which is at present vested in the councils of the boroughs of Sandwell and Walsall, the British Waterways Board, the Severn—Trent Water Authority or any other local authority or other body mentioned in section 141(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, and related easements and similar rights. The land is shown coloured black on the map forming part of this note.

In some instances where the present ownership of the land to be vested is a matter of dispute between two or more of the bodies mentioned in the Schedule to this Order, the description of the land is, to that extent, duplicated in the Schedule.

The land and rights are in the area designated by the Black Country Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1987, which establishes the Black Country Development Corporation.