Article 2 Interpretation

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^f1 and the Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988^f2.

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.

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.