Article 2 Designation of rural areas
There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 1AA(3)(a) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (additional right to enfranchise) and section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire)–
the parishes named in the second column of Part I of the Schedule in the counties named in the first column, and
the areas described in Part II of the Schedule and more particularly shown bounded by a black line and cross hatched on one of the maps entitled “Map referred to in the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas) Order 1999” of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.