The Merseytram (Liverpool City Centre to Kirkby) Order 2005

Acquisition of land

6.  Merseytravel shall not acquire any apparatus from a specified undertaker pursuant to this Order otherwise than by agreement, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.

7.  Merseytravel may in exercise of the powers of this Order acquire or appropriate any land in which any apparatus is placed and, following the removal of such apparatus in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule, any rights in that land relating to that apparatus shall be extinguished but no apparatus shall be removed nor shall any right of the specified undertaker to use, maintain or renew any apparatus be extinguished until any necessary alternative apparatus has been constructed and is in operation to the reasonable satisfaction of the specified undertaker.