Explanatory note

This Order designates the areas described in Part 1 of the Schedule as special development areas for the purposes of section 1 of the Industry Act 1972 in addition to those areas which were so designated by the Special Development Areas Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1234) and specifies the areas described in Part 2 of the Schedule as development areas for the purposes of the Local Employment Act 1972 and of any other enactment referring to development areas in addition to those areas which were so specified by the Development Areas Order 1966 (S.I. 1966/1032).

The Order also specifies the areas described in Part 3 of the Schedule as intermediate areas for the purposes of the Local Employment Act 1972 and of any other enactment referring to intermediate areas in addition to the areas which were so specified by the Intermediate Areas Order 1970 (S.I. 1970/308), the Intermediate Areas Order 1971 (S.I. 1971/329) and the Intermediate Areas and Derelict Land Clearance Areas Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/421).

The Order contains a provision to the effect that in cases where regional development grant is payable only as a consequence of the Order no such grant shall be made to any person towards approved capital expenditure incurred by that person which has been defrayed before the date on which the Order comes into operation and that in relation to an area which is designated as a special development area by the Order no such grant shall be made at the rate of 22 per cent to any person towards such expenditure defrayed before that date.

The Order amends the Intermediate Areas Order 1970 and the Intermediate Areas Order 1971 by deleting from the Schedules to those Orders the areas which are specified as development areas by this Order.

The Order amends the Derelict Land Clearance Order 1970 (S.I. 1970/309) by deleting from the description of the North Midlands Derelict Land Clearance Area in the Schedule thereto the areas which are specified as intermediate areas by this Order.