Explanatory note

This Order appoints the days on which the provisions in the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 which relate to housing and which apply exclusively to Scotland are to come into force. (Sections 174 (financial assistance for urban regeneration), 179 (adjustment of areas of development corporations) and 180 (partially) (transfer of property, rights and liabilities of development corporations) of that Act which apply to Scotland as well as England and Wales will come into force on 11th October 1993; and paragraph 8 of Schedule 17 (House of Commons disqualification) to that Act which also applies in both jurisdictions will be brought into force by a subsequent commencement order.)

The provisions of that Act specified in Schedules 1 and 2 are to come into force respectively on 27th September 1993 and 1st April 1994.