This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 3rd June 1999.

There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 1AA(3)(a) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (additional right to enfranchise) and section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire)—

(a)    the parishes named in the second column of Part I of the Schedule in the counties named in the first column, and

(b)    the areas described in Part II of the Schedule and more particularly shown bounded by a black line and cross hatched on one of the maps entitled “Map referred to in the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas) Order 1999” of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

The references to the following parishes are deleted—

(a)    in Schedule 1 to the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the East) Order 1997, in Part III (Derbyshire) “Dronfield” and in Schedule 2 to that Order, in Part VI (Leicestershire) “Ashby Woulds” and “Oakethorpe and Donisthorpe”;

(b)    in Schedule 1 to the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North East) Order 1997, in Part IX (Northumberland) “Tosson” and in Schedule 2 to that Order, in Part VI (Northumberland) “Broomley and Stocksfield”;

(c)    in Schedule 2 to the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the South West) Order 1997, in Part V (Devon) “Buckland Monachorum”,

and any parish or other area which ceases accordingly to be specified in any of those Orders ceases to be designated for the purposes specified in article 2 of this Order so far as it is not otherwise designated by that article.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Hilary Armstrong

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

6th May 1999

This Order designates the areas specified in the Schedule as rural areas for the purposes of section 1AA(3)(a) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (additional right to enfranchise) and section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire). The right of tenants with long leases to enfranchise under section 1AA of the 1967 Act and the right of tenants of registered social landlords to acquire their homes under section 16 and 17 of the 1996 Act do not apply in respect of properties in areas which have been designated as rural areas. In the case of tenants with long leases, the additional conditions in section 1AA(3)(b) and (c) of the 1967 Act must be fulfilled before the right to enfranchise is excluded.

The parishes and areas listed in article 3 have ceased to be designated as rural areas, although in some instances they have been redesignated under the same name but by reference to a different area. The maps referred to in article 2(b), which show the areas listed in Part II of the Schedule, may be inspected during office hours at Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU.