1.—(1) Chapters 1 and 2 of Part 1 of the 2008 Act are modified in accordance with the following provisions.
(2) Sections 5 (powers to provide housing or other land), 6 (powers for regeneration, development or effective use of land), 7 (powers in relation to infrastructure), 8 (powers to deal with land etc.), 9 (acquisition of land), 10 (restrictions on disposal of land), 11 (main powers in relation to acquired land) of, and Schedules 2 to 4 to, the 2008 Act, as applied by article 9, shall have effect as if for every reference to—
(a)“the HCA” there were substituted a reference to “the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority”;
(b)“Part 1” of that Act there were substituted a reference to “Part 3 of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017”;
(c)the HCA’s land or land acquired or held by the HCA there were substituted a reference to “the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s land” or land acquired or held by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.
(3) Sections 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 of the 2008 Act shall have effect as if for every reference to “land” there were substituted a reference to “land in the area of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority”.
(4) Section 57(1) of the 2008 Act shall have effect as if the following definition were inserted at the appropriate place—
““the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority” means the body corporate established by the Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority Order 2014;”.
(5) Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2008 Act (compulsory acquisition of land) has effect as if for every reference to “section 9” of that Act there were substituted a reference to “article 6 of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017”.
(6) Schedule 3 to the 2008 Act (main powers in relation to land acquired by the HCA) has effect as if for references to land which has been vested in or acquired by the HCA there were substituted references to land which has been vested in or acquired by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.
(7) Schedule 4 to the 2008 Act (powers in relation to, and for, statutory undertakers) has effect as if for every reference to the HCA under Part 1 of that Act there were substituted a reference to the functions conferred on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority under article 6 of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017.