NEW TOWNS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 20 Power of new town commissions to make byelaws.

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NEW TOWNS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 20

Power of new town commissions to make byelaws.

20.(1) A new town commission, in the exercise of their development functions,
may make byelaws, subject to confirmation by the Ministry, for the management,
regulation, protection or preservation of any property vested in them or in
their custody or any undertaking carried on by them, and in particular, but
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, may, in the
exercise of such functions, make byelaws for any of the said purposes for
which byelaws or regulations may be made by [a district council].

(2) The power to make byelaws under subsection (1) shall include power to make
byelaws with respect to

(a)the admission of persons to; or

(b)the exclusion of persons from; or

(c)the regulation of the conduct of persons resorting to,

[(3) Part VI of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (except
section 90(1)(a) and (b) and section 93 thereof), and section 123 of that Act,
so far as it relates to byelaws, shall apply to byelaws made under this
section as if, in that Part and section,

(a)any reference to a council were a reference to a new town commission;

(b)any reference to the clerk of a council were a reference to the general
manager of a new town commission;

(c)any reference to the district of a council were a reference to the area
designated under section 1 as the site of a new town; and

(d)any reference to the Ministry concerned were a reference to the Ministry.]

(4) The Ministry may authorise persons employed by a new town commission to
enforce byelaws made by the new town commission under this section and to take
all steps, and do all acts and things, necessary for that purpose, and in
particular any person so authorised may after due warning remove or exclude
from any place with respect to which any such byelaws are for the time being
in force a person who commits, or whom he reasonably suspects of committing,
in that place an offence against any such byelaw or against section 4 of the
Vagrancy Act 1824.

(5) A person who

(a)acts in contravention of any byelaw made under this section; or

(b)obstructs any person authorised under subsection (4),

S.21 rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/285

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