
1 
This order may be cited as the Public Bodies' Land (Appropriate Ministers) Order 1981 and shall come into operation on 6th February 1981.
2 
For the purposes of Part X of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, the expression “the appropriate Minister” in relation to the bodies set out in column 1 in the following Table shall have the meaning given in column 2 of that Table as respects those bodies—

Body Appropriate Minister
The British Broadcasting Corporation The Secretary of State for the Home Department
British Shipbuilders The Secretary of State for Industry
The British Steel Corporation The Secretary of State for Industry
The Housing Corporation The Secretary of State for the Environment
The Independent Broadcasting Authority The Secretary of State for the Home Department
The National Coal Board The Secretary of State for Energy
Michael R.D. Heseltine
Secretary of State for the Environment
19th December 1980We concur,
J.A. Douglas-Hamilton
Carol Mather
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
7th January 1981