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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-for-the-new-towns-transfer-of-undertaking-and-functions-tees-barrage-order-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/361",
  "legislation_title": "The Commission for the New Towns (Transfer of Undertaking and Functions) (Tees Barrage) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-for-the-new-towns-transfer-of-undertaking-and-functions-tees-barrage-order-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "URBAN DEVELOPMENT\nMade 12th February 2001\nComing into force 20th February 2001\nWhereas the Commission for the New Towns has made an application to the Secretary of State under section 69 of the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990 (transfer of functions);\nAnd whereas before making that application the Commission for the New Towns gave not less than three months' notice of their intention in that behalf to the Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, the Hambleton District Council, the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Limited and the Environment Agency and forwarded with the application any written representations submitted to the Commission by those councils, that authority or that agency within the period of such notice;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 69(1) of the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. xix. All the functions conferred on the Teesside Development Corporation by the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990 and all of the undertaking authorised by that Act were transferred to the Commission for the New Towns by S.I. 1998/570."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 69(2) of the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990. The Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority was incorporated as a private limited company on 2 August 1991 (company number 02636007). The functions of the National Rivers Authority under the 1990 Act, and the property, rights and liabilities of the National Rivers Authority, were transferred to the Environment Agency by sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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