The Merseyside Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Transport Land) Order 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/1393
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Merseyside Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Transport Land) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In this Order–

“the Corporation” means the Merseyside Development Corporation;

“statutory undertakers” does not include any statutory undertakers in relation to whom neither the Secretary of State for the Environment nor the Secretary of State for Transport is the appropriate Minister;

“urban development areas” means the areas designated as urban development areas by the Merseyside Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1980 and the Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988 .

(2) Any reference in this Order to a map followed immediately by a number is a reference to the map so numbered in the set of maps numbered 1 to 4 entitled “Maps referred to in the Merseyside Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (Transport Land) Order 1989”, of which prints, signed by an Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, the Secretary of State for Transport, the councils of the city of Liverpool and the borough of Wirral, the British Railways Board, the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority, Merseyside Transport Limited and the Corporation.

(3) Any reference in this Order to a numbered plot is a reference to the plot so numbered and shown bounded externally with a black line and either stippled or edged internally with a stippled band on a numbered map.

Section 3 Vesting of land

The land described in

(a) Part 1 of the Schedule hereto, and now vested in the British Railways Board,

(b) Part 2 of the Schedule hereto, and now vested in the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, and

(c) Part 3 of the Schedule hereto, and now vested in Merseyside Transport Limited, being a subsidiary of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority,

or, in each case, in a local authority or other statutory undertakers or public body or in a subsidiary of any of them, being land within the urban development areas, is hereby vested in the Corporation.

Section 4 Easements and rights in or over land

All existing easements and rights in or over other land within the urban development areas which are vested in an authority or body mentioned in article 3 above, and which are annexed or appurtenant to land vested by that article or any part thereof, are hereby vested in the Corporation.