This Order designates certain parishes in the districts of Ryedale and Tendring as rural areas and provides for each of those districts to be a designated region for the purposes of section 157 of the Housing Act 1985 (“the Act”). Ryedale is designated in relation to dwelling-houses in the parishes listed in Part 1 of the Schedule to the Order and Tendring in relation to dwelling-houses in the parishes listed in Part 2 of the Schedule.