Section 60 †Special provisions as to premises provided under Distribution of Industry Acts 1945 and 1950, etc.C2C3

F1Where the property comprised in a tenancy consists of premises of which F2the Secretary of State or F3the English Industrial Estates Corporation is the landlord, being premises situated in a locality which is either—

and the Secretary of State certifies that it is necessary or expedient for achieving F5the purpose mentioned in section 2(1) of the said Act of 1972 that the use or occupation of the property should be changed, paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of section fifty-eight of this Act shall apply as they apply where such a certificate is given as is mentioned in that subsection.

Where the court makes an order under Part II of this Act for the grant of a new tenancy of any such premises as aforesaid, and the Secretary of State certifies that it is necessary or expedient as aforesaid that the tenancy should be subject to a term, specified in the certificate, prohibiting or restricting the tenant from assigning the tenancy or sub-letting, charging or parting with possession of the premises or any part thereof or changing the use of the premises or any part thereof, the court shall determine that the terms of the tenancy shall include the terms specified in the certificate.

In this section “development area” and “intermediate area” mean an area for the time being specified as a development area or, as the case may be, as an intermediate area by an order made, or having effect as if made, under section 1 of the Industrial Development Act 1982.