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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-speed-rail-london-west-midlands-act-2017/schedule-31/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/7",
  "legislation_title": "High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-speed-rail-london-west-midlands-act-2017",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "(1) The property, rights and liabilities that may be the subject of a transfer scheme include in particular—\n(a) rights and liabilities relating to contracts of employment;\n(b) property, rights and liabilities that would not otherwise be capable of being transferred or assigned by the transferor;\n(c) property acquired after the making of the scheme and rights and liabilities arising after the making of the scheme;\n(d) rights and liabilities under an enactment.\n(2) A transfer scheme may—\n(a) create rights or interests in relation to property for whose transfer the scheme provides or property retained by the transferor;\n(b) create rights and liabilities as between the transferor and a transferee or as between different transferees.\n(3) A transfer scheme may contain provision about enforcement, by or against any one or more of the transferor and the transferee or transferees, of a right or liability for whose transfer or creation the scheme provides.\n(4) A transfer scheme may define the property, rights and liabilities to be transferred or property to be retained by the transferor—\n(a) by specifying it or them;\n(b) by describing it or them.\n(5) A description of property, rights or liabilities may be framed in particular—\n(a) by reference to the transferor's undertaking;\n(b) by reference to a specified part of that undertaking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/7/schedule/31/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:43.605189+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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