Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019

Transfer of property etc to the Sponsor Body

19 (1) The Leader of the House of Commons may make one or more schemes providing for the transfer to the Sponsor Body of qualifying property, rights and liabilities of—

(a) the House of Commons Commission, or

(b) the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons.

(2) The Leader of the House of Lords may make one or more schemes providing for the transfer to the Sponsor Body of qualifying property, rights and liabilities of the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords.

(3) The Leader of the House of Commons and the Leader of the House of Lords may jointly make one or more schemes providing for the transfer to the Sponsor Body of qualifying property, rights and liabilities held or incurred jointly by the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons and the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords.

(4) “Qualifying property, rights and liabilities” means property, rights and liabilities that the Sponsor Body considers it necessary to be transferred to it in connection with the Parliamentary building works.

(5) The things that may be transferred under a transfer scheme include—

(a) property, rights or liabilities that could not otherwise be transferred;

(b) property acquired, or rights and liabilities arising, after the making of the scheme.

(6) If the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/246) do not apply in relation to a transfer, a transfer scheme must make equivalent provision.

(7) A transfer scheme may—

(a) create rights, or impose liabilities, in relation to property or rights transferred;

(b) make provision about the continuing effect of things done by the transferor in respect of anything transferred;

(c) make provision about the continuation of things (including legal proceedings) in the process of being done by, on behalf of or in relation to the transferor in respect of anything transferred;

(d) make other consequential, supplementary, incidental or transitional provision.

(8) A transfer scheme may provide—

(a) for modifications to the scheme by agreement between the person making the scheme and the person (or persons) affected by the modifications;

(b) for modifications to have effect from the date when the original scheme came into effect.

(9) Before making a transfer scheme, the person making the scheme must consult—

(a) in the case of a scheme under sub-paragraph (1), the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons;

(b) in the case of a scheme under sub-paragraph (2), the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords;

(c) in the case of a scheme under sub-paragraph (3), both those Corporate Officers.

(10) In this paragraph—

(a) “transferor”, in relation to a transfer scheme, means the person or persons for the transfer of whose qualifying property, rights or liabilities the scheme provides;

(b) references to rights and liabilities include rights and liabilities relating to a contract of employment.