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Transport (Scotland) Act 1989
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1 Transfer of operations of the Group.U.K.
(1)The Secretary of State may, after consultation with the Scottish Transport Group (in this Act referred to as “the Group”), formulate a programme providing for the disposal, in preparation for the dissolution of the Group, of (subject to section 7 of this Act) the whole of the Group’s undertaking.
(2)A programme under subsection (1) above may provide for—
(a)the disposal of the whole or any part of the undertaking of or of any particular property, rights or liabilities of any of the Group’s subsidiaries, the disposal of which appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate in preparation for the dissolution of the Group; and
(b)the arrangements to be made, in preparation for the dissolution of the Group, as regards any matter for which provision appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate for the purposes of or in connection with the dissolution.
(3)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2)(b) above, the arrangements there mentioned may include provision for the making by the Group or any subsidiary of theirs, to persons employed by them or any such subsidiary who do not, by virtue of any disposal in pursuance of the programme, fall to be treated as employed by any other person, of payments by way of compensation in respect of the loss of their employment.
(4)In this Act “the disposal programme” means the programme formulated by the Secretary of State under subsection (1) above subject to any modifications under subsection (7) below.
(5)Without prejudice to subsections (1) and (2) above, the disposal programme shall contain—
(a)a statement of the general approach which the Secretary of State intends that the Group should adopt in carrying out the disposals for which the programme provides (including the intended time table for implementing the programme); and
(b)a description of the measures (if any) which the Secretary of State proposes should be taken for the purpose of preparing for any such disposals by way of reorganisation of the structure or operations of the Group and any of their subsidiaries.
(6)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (5)(b) above, the measures there mentioned may include the formation or promotion of new subsidiaries and the reconstruction, amalgamation, dissolution or winding up of any existing subsidiaries.
(7)The Secretary of State may from time to time, at the request of the Group or on his own initiative, make such modifications in the disposal programme as, after consultation with the Group, he thinks fit.
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F1S. 1(8) repealed (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 94(2), Sch. 2 Pt. IV
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