
1 
This Order may be cited as the Commission for the New Towns (Transfer of Undertaking and Functions) (Tees Barrage) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 20th February 2001.
2 
In this Order—
 “the 1998 Order” means the Teesside Development Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking and Functions) Order 1998;
 “the Act” means the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990;
 “the Commission” means the Commission for the New Towns;
 “the functions” means all of the functions conferred on the Teesside Development Corporation by the Act which were transferred to the Commission by the 1998 Order;
 “the Transferee” means the British Waterways Board; and
 “the undertaking” means all of the undertaking authorised by the Act which was transferred to the Commission by the 1998 Order.
3 
Subject to the following provisions of this Order—
(a) the undertaking and functions are hereby transferred to the Transferee;
(b) references in the Act to an officer of the Corporation shall be construed as references to an employee of the Transferee; and
(c) anything which before the date of the coming into force of this Order was in the process of being done by, to or in relation to the Commission in connection with any of the functions or the undertaking may be continued after that date by, to or in relation to the Transferee.
4 

(1) Any byelaws made under section 50 of the Act and in force immediately before the date of the coming into force of this Order shall continue in force after that date as if they had been made by the Transferee.
(2) Section 50(9) of the Act shall apply as though the reference to the Chief Executive of the corporation were to an employee of the Transferee appointed for the purposes of that section.
5 
The 1998 Order is revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
12th February 2001