
1 

(1) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(2) This Order may be cited as the Intermediate Areas and Derelict Land Clearance Areas Order 1972 and shall come into operation immediately after being laid before Parliament.
2 
The areas described in Part I of the Schedule to this Order are hereby specified as intermediate areas for the purposes of the Local Employment Act 1972.
3 
The Derelict Land Clearance Areas Order 1970 shall have effect subject to the amendment that the Yorkshire and Humberside Derelict Land Clearance Area and the North West Derelict Land Clearance Area shall be deleted from the Schedule thereto.
4 
The Intermediate Areas Order 1970 shall have effect subject to the amendment that in the Schedule thereto, for the description of the South East Wales Intermediate Area there shall be substituted the description of that Area in Part II of the Schedule to this Order.
John Davies
The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
Dated 17th March 1972
SCHEDULE
Article 2
PART I
The Yorkshire and Humberside Intermediate Area consisting of the employment exchange areas of:—
 Attercliffe
 Barton-on-Humber
 Batley
 Bradford
 Brighouse
 Chapeltown
 Dewsbury
 Driffield
 Elland
 Gainsborough
 Grimsby
 Halifax
 Harrogate
 Haworth
 Hebden Bridge
 Horncastle
 Horsforth
 Huddersfield
 Keighley
 Leeds
 Louth
 Mablethorpe
 Morley
 Otley
 Pocklington
 Ripon
 Rothwell
 Scunthorpe
 Seacroft
 Selby
 Sheffield
 Shipley
 Skegness
 Skipton
 Sowerby Bridge
 Spen Valley
 Stanningley
 Stocksbridge
 Tadcaster
 Wetherby
 Woodhouse
 Yeadon (formerly Guiseley)
 York

The North West Intermediate Area consisting of the employment exchange areas of:—
 Altrincham
 Ashton-in-Makerfield
 Ashton-under-Lyne
 Atherton and Tyldesley
 Bamber Bridge
 Blackpool
 Bolton
 Bury
 Buxton
 Chapel-en-le-Frith
 Chester
 Chorley
 Clitheroe
 Congleton
 Crewe
 Denton
 Eccles
 Failsworth
 Farnworth
 Fleetwood
 Glossop
 Golborne
 Heywood
 Hindley
 Horwich
 Hyde
 Irlam
 Kirkham
 Lancaster
 Leigh
 Levenshulme
 Leyland
 Littleborough
 Lytham
 Macclesfield
 Manchester
 Marple
 Middleton
 Middlewich
 Morecambe
 Mossley
 Nantwich
 New Mills
 Newton Heath
 Newton le Willows (formerly Earlestown)
 Northwich
 Oldham and Chadderton
 Openshaw
 Ormskirk
 Preston
 Prestwich
 Radcliffe
 Ramsbottom
 Rochdale
 Royton
 Saddleworth
 Salford

The North West Intermediate Area—continued
 Sandbach
 Shaw
 Skelmersdale (excluding that part which lies within the designated area of Skelmersdale New Town)
 Southport
 Stalybridge
 St. Anne's-on-the-Sea
 Standish
 Stockport
 Stretford
 Swinton
 Thornton Cleveleys
 Warrington
 Westhoughton
 Wigan
 Wilmslow
 Winsford
 Withington
 Worsley
 Wythenshawe

The North Wales Intermediate Area consisting of the employment exchange areas of:—
 Buckley
 Colwyn Bay
 Flint
 Holywell
 Llandudno
 Mold
 Rhyl
 Shotton

PART II
Article 4The South East Wales Intermediate Area consisting of the employment exchange areas of:—
 Abergavenny (excluding that part which lies outside the Abergavenny Municipal Borough and the Abergavenny Rural District)
 Barry
 Cardiff
 Chepstow
 Cwmbran
 Llantwit Major
 Monmouth
 Newport
 Newport Docks
 Penarth
For the purposes of this Schedule the employment exchange areas referred to above are areas for which an employment exchange has been established or maintained for the purposes of the Employment and Training Act 1948 as those areas exist on the date on which this Order comes into operation.
