Minister of Town and Country Planning Act 1943

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1943 c. 5
Year1943


Minister of Town and Country Planning Act, 1943

(6 & 7 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 5.

An Act to make provision in connection with the appointment of a Minister of Town and Country Planning; to provide for the transfer to that Minister of certain statutory functions; and to provide for the establishment of statutory Commissions for the purpose of exercising such functions in relation to the use and development of land in England and Wales as may hereafter be determined.

[4th February 1943]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Appointment and functions of Minister of Town and Country Planning.

1 Appointment and functions of Minister of Town and Country Planning.

1. It shall be lawful for His Majesty to appoint a Minister of Town and Country Planning, to be charged with the duty of securing consistency and continuity in the framing and execution of a national policy with respect to the use and development of land throughout England and Wales, and, as from such date as His Majesty may by Order in Council appoint, there shall be transferred to that Minister all functions exercisable by the Minister of Works and Planning under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1932.

S-2 Oath of Allegiance and Official Oath.

2 Oath of Allegiance and Official Oath.

2. The Minister of Town and Country Planning (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Minister’) shall take the oath of allegiance and the official oath, and the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868, shall have effect as if the name of the Minister were included in the First Part of the Schedule to that Act.

S-3 Remuneration, appointment of officers, &c.

3 Remuneration, appointment of officers, &c.

(1) There shall be paid to the Minister an annual salary not exceeding five thousand pounds.

(2) The Minister may appoint such secretaries, officers and servants as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine, and there shall be paid to the secretaries, officers and servants so appointed such salaries or remuneration as the Treasury may determine.

S-4 Capacity to sit in House of Commons.

4 Capacity to sit in House of Commons.

4. A person holding office as Minister of Town and Country Planning or as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry shall not thereby be rendered incapable of being elected as a member of the Commons House of Parliament or of sitting or voting as such a member, but only one such Parliamentary Secretary shall sit as a member of that House.

S-5 Seal style and acts of Minister.

5 Seal style and acts of Minister.

(1) The Minister shall for all purposes be a corporation sole and shall have an official seal which shall be authenticated by the signature of the Minister or of a secretary of the Ministry or of any person authorised by the Minister to act in that behalf.

(2) The seal of the Minister shall be officially and judicially noticed, and every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by the Minister and to be sealed with the seal of the Minister authenticated in the manner provided by this section, or to be signed by a secretary of the Ministry or any person authorised as aforesaid, shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be so made or issued without further proof, unless the contrary is shown.

(3) A certificate signed by the Minister that any instrument purporting to be made or issued by him was so made or issued shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.

(4) The Documentary Evidence Act, 1868 , shall apply to the Minister as if his name were included in the first column of the Schedule to that Act, and as if he or a secretary of the Ministry or any person authorised by him to act on his behalf were mentioned in the second column of that Schedule, and as if the regulations referred to in that Act included any document issued by the Minister.

S-6 Additional provisions as to transfer of functions to the Minister.

6 Additional provisions as to transfer of functions to the Minister.

(1) As from the date appointed for the purpose of section one of this Act, the provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1932, specified in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in the second column of that Schedule, being amendments consequential upon the transfer of functions effected by the said section one.

(2) If it appears to His Majesty to be expedient that any other functions relating to the use and development of land in England and Wales exercisable by any Minister of the Crown under any enactment should be exercised by the Minister, His Majesty may by Order in Council transfer those functions to the Minister.

(3) His Majesty may by Order in Council make such incidental, consequential or supplemental provisions as appear to His Majesty to be necessary or expedient in consequence of any transfer effected by or under this Act,...

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