The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Commencement No. 6) Order 1981
This order brings Part X of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 into force in the areas of the district councils listed in the Schedule to the Order. These areas are in addition to those specified in the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980 No. 1871) and the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981 No. 194). 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 a public body which own land on a register to take steps to dispose of it.