Local Government Act 2019

Transfer of land

9. (1) On the transfer day and subject to sections 10 and 11, all lands situated in the relevant area that, immediately before the transfer day, were vested in the county council and all rights, powers and privileges relating to or connected with such lands shall, without any conveyance or assignment, stand vested in the city council for all the estate or interest therein that, immediately before the transfer day, was vested in the county council, but subject to all trusts and equities affecting the lands continuing to subsist and being capable of being performed.

(2) On the transfer day all choses-in-action relating to land vested in the city council under subsection (1), that immediately before that day, were vested in the county council shall stand vested in the city council without any assignment.

(3) Every chose-in-action vested in the city council by virtue of subsection (2) may, on and after the transfer day, be sued on, recovered or enforced by the city council in its own name, and it shall not be necessary for the city council or the county council to give notice to any person bound by the chose-in-action of the vesting effected by that subsection.

(4) All functions of the county council connected with any land standing vested in the city council under subsection (1) shall, from the transfer day and in relation to such land, be performable by or on behalf of the city council only.