- Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 570
The Teesside Development Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking and Functions) Order 1998
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| Made | 5th March 1998 | ||
| Coming into force | 1st April 1998 |
Whereas the Teesside Development Corporation has made an application to the Secretary of State under section 69 of the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990[1] (transfer of functions);
And whereas before making that application the Teesside Development Corporation gave not less than three months' notice of their intention in that behalf to the Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, the Hambleton District Council, the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority and the Environment Agency and forwarded with the application any written representations submitted to the Corporation by those councils, that authority or that agency within the period of such notice[2];
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 69(1) of the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order -
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Teesside Development Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking and Functions) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.
Interpretation
2. In this Order -
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"the Act" means the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990;
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"the Commission" means the Commission for the New Towns;
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"the Corporation" means the Teesside Development Corporation;
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"the functions" means all of the functions conferred on the Corporation by the Act; and
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"the undertaking" means all of the undertaking authorised by the Act.
Transfer of functions
3.
Subject to the following provisions of this Order -
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(a) the undertaking and functions are hereby transferred to the Commission;
(b) references in the Act to an officer of the Corporation shall be construed as references to an employee of the Commission; and
(c) anything which before the date of the coming into force of this Order was in the process of being done by, to or in relation to the Corporation in connection with any of the functions or the undertaking may be continued after that date by, to or in relation to the Commission.
Byelaws
4.
- (1) Any byelaws made under section 50 of the Act before the date of the coming into force of this Order, shall continue in force after that date as if they had been made by the Commission.
(2) Section 50(9) of the Act shall apply as though the reference to the Chief Executive of the Corporation were to an employee of the Commission appointed for the purposes of that section.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Richard Caborn
Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
5th March 1998
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order transfers to the Commission for the New Towns, on the date of the coming into force of the Order, all the undertaking of the Teesside Development Corporation authorised by the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990 and all the functions conferred on the Corporation by that Act. (It is proposed that on 3rd April 1998 the Corporation will cease to act except for the purpose of preparing its final accounts and report and winding up its affairs and that it will be dissolved on 1st July 1998.)
Notes:
[1] 1990 c. xix.back
[2] See section 69(2) of the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990. The functions of the National Rivers Authority under that Act, and the property, rights and liabilities of the National Rivers Authority, were transferred to the Environment Agency by sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25).back
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