SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 31Transfer schemes: further provision

Property, rights and liabilities

1

1

The property, rights and liabilities that may be the subject of a transfer scheme include in particular—

a

rights and liabilities relating to contracts of employment;

b

property, rights and liabilities that would not otherwise be capable of being transferred or assigned by the transferor;

c

property acquired after the making of the scheme and rights and liabilities arising after the making of the scheme;

d

rights and liabilities under an enactment.

2

A transfer scheme may—

a

create rights or interests in relation to property for whose transfer the scheme provides or property retained by the transferor;

b

create rights and liabilities as between the transferor and a transferee or as between different transferees.

3

A transfer scheme may contain provision about enforcement, by or against any one or more of the transferor and the transferee or transferees, of a right or liability for whose transfer or creation the scheme provides.

4

A transfer scheme may define the property, rights and liabilities to be transferred or property to be retained by the transferor—

a

by specifying it or them;

b

by describing it or them.

5

A description of property, rights or liabilities may be framed in particular—

a

by reference to the transferor's undertaking;

b

by reference to a specified part of that undertaking.

2

The power under section 46 to make a scheme for the transfer of any property from one person (A) to another (B) may be exercised instead so as to make a scheme for the creation by A in favour of B of an interest in or right in relation to the property.