Explanatory note

This order brings into operation the provisions of the National Heritage Act 1983 (“the 1983 Act”) relating to the Board of Trustees of the Armouries and the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, so far as they are not already in force. With the exception of the provisions of paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 to the 1983 Act, which the order brings into operation on 1st October 1984, the order brings the relevant provisions into operation on 1st April 1984.

The order also brings into operation on 1st April 1984 an amendment, relating to applications for listed building consent, made by the 1983 Act to Schedule 11 to the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (c.78).