Transport (London) Act 1969

12 If at any stage of any court proceedings to which the Executive or the designated company and a person other than the Executive, the Bus Company or a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Executive or the Bus Company are parties, it appears to the court that the issues in the proceedings depend on the identification or definition of any of the property, rights or liabilities transferred under section 16 of this Act which the Executive and the designated company have not yet effected, or raise a question of construction on that section or this Schedule which would not arise if the Executive and the designated company constituted a single person, the court may, if it thinks fit on the application of a person other than as aforesaid who is a party to the proceedings, hear and determine the proceedings on the footing that such one of the Executive and the designated company as is a party to the proceedings represents and is answerable for the other of them, and that they constitute a single person, and any judgment or order given by the court shall bind both the Executive and the designated company accordingly.