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PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
27th July 1989
Laid before Parliament
28th July 1989
Coming into force
18th August 1989
The Secretary of State, being satisfied that in all the circumstances it is not expedient to make adequate provision in the area of the Borough of Runnymede for the accommodation of gipsies residing in or resorting to that area, on the joint application of the councils of the County of Surrey and the Borough of Runnymede, and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(2) 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 (Borough of Runnymede) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 18th August 1989.
2. The area of the Borough of Runnymede is designated as an area to which section 10 (prohibition of unauthorised camping in designated areas) of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 applies.
C. F. Patten
Secretary of State for the Environment
27th July 1980
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates the Borough of Runnymede 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.
