{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teesside-development-corporation-transfer-of-undertaking-and-functions-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/570",
  "legislation_title": "The Teesside Development Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking and Functions) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teesside-development-corporation-transfer-of-undertaking-and-functions-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "URBAN DEVELOPMENT\nMade 5th March 1998\nComing into force 1st April 1998\nWhereas the Teesside Development Corporation has made an application to the Secretary of State under section 69 of the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990 (transfer of functions);\nAnd whereas before making that application the Teesside Development Corporation gave not less than three months' notice of their intention in that behalf to the Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, the Hambleton District Council, the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority and the Environment Agency and forwarded with the application any written representations submitted to the Corporation by those councils, that authority or that agency within the period of such notice;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 69(1) of the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. xix."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 69(2) of the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990. The functions of the National Rivers Authority under that Act, and the property, rights and liabilities of the National Rivers Authority, were transferred to the Environment Agency by sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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