The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980
This Order brings into operation Part X of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 in certain areas. The Schedule to this order specifies the district and London borough councils in whose areas Part X of the Act of 1980 comes into operation, and the order specifies the date from which it operates in those areas. Part X of the Act provides for registers to be kept of land owned by public bodies, being land which is not being used or not being sufficiently used for the purposes of the performance of a public body's functions or of carrying on their undertaking. Part X also provides that the Secretary of State may direct the public body which own land on a register to take steps to dispose of it.