Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 1173 (C. 37)
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2000
Made
29th April 2000
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 43 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998( 1 ), hereby makes the following Order:
Citation
1. This Order may be cited as the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2000.
Commencement for London
2. —(1)Section 1 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998(“the Act”), so far as it relates to the establishment of a regional development agency for London, shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.
(2) For the purposes of the London Development Agency—
(a) section 2 of the Act shall come into force on 8th May 2000 for the purpose only of enabling the Mayor to consult on the appointment of persons to be members of the Agency;
(b) section 6(1) and (2) of the Act, and section 6(6) so far as it relates to paragraph 1(1), paragraphs 2 to 10 and paragraph 13 of Schedule 3 to the Act, shall come into force on 8th May 2000; and
(c) sections 2 to 42 of the Act, in so far as they are not already in force, shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Keith Hill
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
29th April 2000
1998 c. 45 . The Act is amended, so far as it relates to the London Development Agency, by Part V of, and Schedule 25 to, the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) .