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Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996

1996 CHAPTER 61

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    The Channel Tunnel Rail Link

    1. Works

      1. 1. Construction and maintenance of scheduled works.

      2. 2. Further and supplementary provisions.

      3. 3. Highways.

    2. Land

      1. 4. Acquisition within limits shown on deposited plans.

      2. 5. Acquisition outside limits shown on deposited plans.

      3. 6. Temporary possession and use.

      4. 7. Extinguishment of private rights of way.

      5. 8. Extinguishment of rights of statutory undertakers etc.

    3. Planning and heritage

      1. 9. Planning: general.

      2. 10. Permitted development: time limits.

      3. 11. Fees for planning applications.

      4. 12. Heritage.

      5. 13. Heritage: rights of entry.

    4. Operation

      1. 14. Operation and use of authorised works.

      2. 15. Bye-laws.

    5. Application of railway legislation

      1. 16. Licensing.

      2. 17. Access agreements.

      3. 18. Closures.

      4. 19. Railway administration orders.

      5. 20. Other legislation.

    6. Functions of the Rail Regulator

      1. 21. Duties as to exercise of regulatory functions.

      2. 22. Restriction of functions in relation to competition etc.

    7. Competition

      1. 23. Restrictive trade practices.

      2. 24. Monopoly situations.

      3. 25. Anti-competitive practices.

      4. 26. Sections 23 to 25: supplementary provisions.

    8. Trees

      1. 27. Power to deal with trees on neighbouring land.

      2. 28. Disapplication of controls.

    9. Noise

      1. 29. Control of construction sites: appeals.

      2. 30. Proceedings in respect of statutory nuisance: defence.

    10. Financial matters

      1. 31. Expenditure in connection with securing construction of works.

      2. 32. Reserved capacity on the rail link: expenditure.

      3. 33. Undertakings with respect to financial assistance etc.

    11. Miscellaneous and general

      1. 34. Holder of functions of nominated undertaker.

      2. 35. Transfer of functions relating to works.

      3. 36. Compensation for injurious affection.

      4. 37. Duty to co-operate.

      5. 38. Disapplication and modification of miscellaneous controls.

      6. 39. Burial grounds.

      7. 40. Application of landlord and tenant law.

      8. 41. Variation of development agreement: disapplication of s.2 of Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989.

      9. 42. Related works: application of section 9 of the Transport and Works Act 1992.

      10. 43. Arbitration.

  2. Part II

    The A2 and M2 Improvement Works

    1. 44. Authorised works.

    2. 45. Acquisition of land.

    3. 46. Blight: compensation for pre-enactment acquisition.

  3. Part III

    Miscellaneous and General

    1. 47. Time limit for powers of compulsory acquisition.

    2. 48. Power to acquire land by reference to combined effect of works.

    3. 49. Noise insulation regulations: procedure.

    4. 50. Overhead lines.

    5. 51. Replacement concrete batching facilities at St. Pancras.

    6. 52. Protection of interests.

    7. 53. Correction of deposited plans.

    8. 54. Service of documents.

    9. 55. Financial provision.

    10. 56. Interpretation.

    11. 57. Short title.

  4. Schedules:

    1. Schedule 1

      Scheduled works.

    2. Schedule 2

      Works: further and supplementary provisions.

    3. Schedule 3

      Highways.

    4. Schedule 4

      Acquisition of land within limits shown on deposited plans.

      1. Part I

        Purposes for which certain land may be acquired or used.

      2. Part II

        Application of legislation relating to compulsory purchase.

      3. Part III

        Supplementary provisions.

    5. Schedule 5

      Temporary possession and use of land.

    6. Schedule 6

      Planning conditions.

      1. Part I

        Qualifying authorities.

      2. Part II

        Development in Greater London.

      3. Part III

        Development in Essex or Kent.

      4. Part IV

        Supplementary.

    7. Schedule 7

      Heritage.

    8. Schedule 8

      Heritage: rights of entry.

    9. Schedule 9

      Application of other railway legislation.

      1. Part I

        Railways Clauses Acts.

      2. Part II

        Other legislation.

    10. Schedule 10

      Disapplication and modification of miscellaneous controls.

    11. Schedule 11

      Burial grounds: removal of human remains and monuments.

    12. Schedule 12

      The A2 and M2 improvement works.

      1. Part I

        The authorised works.

      2. Part II

        Interference with highways and means of access.

      3. Part III

        Miscellaneous.

    13. Schedule 13

      A2 and M2 improvement works: purposes for which certain land may be acquired or used.

    14. Schedule 14

      Overhead lines: consent.

    15. Schedule 15

      Protective provisions.

      1. Part I

        Protection for highways and traffic.

      2. Part II

        Protection for electricity, gas, water and sewerage undertakers.

      3. Part III

        Protection of land drainage, flood defence, water resources and fisheries.

      4. Part IV

        Protection of telecommunications operators.

      5. Part V

        Protection of Port of Sheerness Limited.

      6. Part VI

        Protection of British Waterways Board.

      7. Part VII

        Protection of Port of London Authority.

An Act to provide for the construction, maintenance and operation of a railway between St. Pancras, in London, and the Channel Tunnel portal at Castle Hill, Folkestone, in Kent, together with associated works, and of works which can be carried out in conjunction therewith; to make provision about related works; to provide for the improvement of the A2 at Cobham, in Kent, and of the M2 between junctions 1 and 4, together with associated works; to make provision with respect to compensation in relation to the acquisition of blighted land; and for connected purposes.

[18th December 1996]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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