Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 1174
LONDON GOVERNMENT
The London Development Agency (Transitional Provisions) Order 2000
Made
29th April 2000
Laid before Parliament
2nd May 2000
Coming into force
3rd July 2000
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 405(2) and 406(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999( 1 ) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the London Development Agency (Transitional Provisions) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.
Modification of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998
2.The Regional Development Agencies Act 1998( 2 ) shall apply in relation to the London Development Agency with the following modifications—
(a) section 2 shall apply as if the following subsection were added—
“ (12) This section is subject to Schedule 2A (which makes transitional provisions for the purposes of the London Development Agency). ” ;
(b) the Act shall apply as if the following Schedule were inserted after Schedule 2 (constitution of agencies)—
section 2(12)
“ SCHEDULE 2A TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR THE LONDON DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
1. Until the day on which at least 8 members of the agency appointed by the Mayor under section 2(1) take office, the London Development Agency shall consist of not less than 2 and not more than 4 members appointed by the Secretary of State (“the interim members”), and the Secretary of State shall designate one of those members as chairman of the agency.
2. Subject to paragraph 3, the interim members shall hold office in accordance with the terms of their appointment.
3. —(1) The appointments of the interim members shall cease at such time on the day on which the Mayor’s appointments under section 2(1) are due to take effect as the Mayor shall specify in a notice in writing to the Secretary of State.
(2) Such notice shall be given not later than 3 days before the day on which the Mayor’s appointments are due to take effect or such shorter period before the time specified in the notice as the Mayor and the Secretary of State may agree.
4. Schedule 2 (constitution of agencies) has effect in relation to the interim members as if—
(a) paragraphs 1(1), 1(4), 2(2), 3 and 3A were omitted ( 3 ) ;
(b) in paragraph 2, the words from “and shall, on ceasing to be chairman” to the end were omitted; and
(c) in paragraph 4(2)(a), for “chairman (or chairman designate)” there were substituted “person, if any, whom the Mayor proposes will be the chairman ”. ” ; and
(c) section 6 (delegation of functions by Ministers) shall apply as if the following subsection were added—
“ (8) Subsection (3) shall not apply in relation to any delegation of functions to the London Development Agency under subsection (1) that is made before at least 8 members of the agency appointed by the Mayor under section 2(1) take office. ” ( 4 ).
Modifications ceasing to apply
3. The modifications made by this Order shall cease to apply immediately after the interim members of the London Development Agency appointed in accordance with the modification in article 2(b) have ceased to hold office.
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. Section 304 of that Act inserts subsection (6) to (11) in section 2 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.
Paragraphs 1(4) and 2(2) and 3A of Schedule 2 to the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 were inserted by paragraphs 20(2), (4) and (5) of Schedule 25 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Section 305(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 inserts subsection (7) in section 6 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.
Section 1 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998, so far as it relates to the establishment of a regional development agency for London, comes into force on 3rd July 2000 ( see the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2000 ( S.I. 2000/1173) (C. 37) ).