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PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
3rd December 1993
Laid before Parliament
10th December 1993
Coming into force
31st December 1993
The Secretary of State, being satisfied that adequate provision is made in the area of the Metropolitan District of Salford for the accommodation of gipsies residing in or resorting to that area, on the application of the council of the Metropolitan District of Salford, and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(1) of the Caravan Sites Act 1968(1), and now vested in him(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Gipsy Encampments (Metropolitan District of Salford) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 31st December 1993.
2. The area of the Metropolitan District of Salford is designated as an area to which section 10 (prohibition of unauthorised camping in designated areas) of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 applies.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Tony Baldry
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment
3rd December 1993
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates the Metropolitan District of Salford as an area to which section 10 of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 applies.
It is an offence within a designated area for a gipsy to station a caravan for the purpose of residing for any period on any land within the boundaries of a highway, or on any other unoccupied land, or on any occupied land without the consent of the occupier.
Under section 11 of the Act (substituted by section 174 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980), unlawfully stationed caravans and their occupants may be removed by order of a magistrates' court.
1968 c. 52; section 12 was substituted by section 175 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), and was amended by paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).
S.I.1970/1681.