Explanatory note

This Order transfers from the Commission for the New Towns to the British Waterways Board, on the date of the coming into force of the Order, all the undertaking of the former Teesside Development Corporation authorised by the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990 and all the functions conferred on the Corporation by that Act. That undertaking and those functions were transferred to the Commission for the New Towns on 1st April 1998 by the Teesside Development Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking and Functions) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/570).