Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 1305

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

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1989 No. 1305

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

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

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 141(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980^[1], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
    1.    This Order may be cited as the Merseyside Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (General) 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 the Secretary of State for the Environment is not the appropriate Minister^[2];


"urban development areas" means the areas designated as urban development areas by the Merseyside Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1980^[3] and the Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988^[4].

    (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 9 entitled "Maps referred to in the Merseyside Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (General) 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 councils of the city of Liverpool and the borough of Wirral, the Merseyside Residuary Body 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 the Schedule hereto and now vested in a body mentioned in the Schedule or in any other local authority or statutory undertakers or other 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.

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

7th June 1989

[1] 1980 c. 65. back

[2] As to "appropriate Minister" see section 170(3) of The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980. back

[3] S.I. 1981/481. back

[4] 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. back

Explanatory Note