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

Made: 7th June 1989

Laid before Parliament: 14th June 1989

Coming into force: 20th July 1989

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in the case of land vested in Merseyside Transport Limited, being also the appropriate Minister, in the case of land vested in the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, for the purposes of section 141(3) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980[^f00001] and the Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Transport, being the appropriate Minister in the case of land vested in the British Railways Board, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 141(1) and (3) of that Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

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.

Interpretation

2

• (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[^f00002] and the Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988[^f00003].

• (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.

Vesting of land

3

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.

Easements and rights in or over land

4

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.

THE SCHEDULE — LAND VESTED IN THE CORPORATION

PART 1 — LAND OF THE BRITISH RAILWAYS BOARD

PART 2 — LAND OF THE MERSEYSIDE PASSENGER TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE

PART 3 — LAND OF MERSEYSIDE TRANSPORT LIMITED

Signed

Nicholas Ridley — Secretary of State for the Environment — 7th June 1989

Paul Channon — Secretary of State for Transport — 2nd June 1989

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order vests in the Merseyside Development Corporation certain land which is at present vested in the British Railways Board, the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, Merseyside Transport Limited (or in another body mentioned in section 141(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980), and related easements and similar rights. The land is shown coloured black on the map forming part of this note.

The land and rights are in the areas designated by the Merseyside Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1980 (which establishes the Merseyside Development Corporation) and the Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988. The Merseyside Development Corporation exercises the functions of an urban development corporation for the Liverpool and Wirral urban development area.

Merseyside Transport Limited is a subsidiary of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority.

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 65; as to “appropriate Minister” see section 170(3).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1981/481.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1988/1967; the Merseyside Development Corporation exercises the functions of an urban development corporation for the Liverpool and Wirral urban development area by virtue of that Order.