Statutory Instruments
1996 No. 233

URBAN DEVELOPMENT
The Central Manchester Development Corporation (Transfer of Property, Rights and Liabilities) Order 1996

Made
7th February 1996

Laid before Parliament
14th February 1996

Coming into force
26th March 1996

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 165A of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having consulted the councils of the City of Manchester and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, hereby makes the following Order—

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Central Manchester Development Corporation (Transfer of Property, Rights and Liabilities) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 26th March 1996.

Transfer of property, rights and liabilities

2.  There are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State any property, rights and liabilities vested for the time being in the Central Manchester Development Corporation which have not been transferred under—

(a)an agreement made under section 165 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(2); or

(b)article 4 of the Central Manchester Development Corporation (Planning Functions) Order 1996(3).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment

David Curry
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
7th February 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order transfers to the Secretary of State any residual property, rights and liabilities of the Central Manchester Development Corporation. It is proposed that the Central Manchester Development Corporation will be dissolved on 1st July 1996.


(1)
1980 c. 65; section 165A was inserted by section 180(2) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28).

(2)
Section 165 was amended by section 180 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.

(3)
S.I. 1996/232.