14. In section 264 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(1) (cases in which land is to be treated as not being operational land), after subsection (4) there shall be inserted the following subsections—
“(4A) For the purposes of this section an interest in land acquired by Transport for London or any of its subsidiaries (within the meaning of the Greater London Authority Act 1999) under or by virtue of that Act shall be taken to have been acquired by Transport for London or that subsidiary at the time and in the manner in which it was acquired by the relevant predecessor.
(4B) In subsection (4A) “relevant predecessor” means London Regional Transport or such other predecessor in title of Transport for London or the subsidiary of Transport for London as last acquired the interest in question—
(a)as the result of such a transfer as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (4); and
(b)in such circumstances as are mentioned in paragraph (b) of that subsection.”