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British Railways Act 1993

1993 CHAPTER iv

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

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  1. Part I

    Preliminary

    1. 1. Short title.

    2. 2. Interpretation.

    3. 3. Incorporation of general enactments.

    4. 4. Application of Part I of Compulsory Purchase Act 1965.

  2. Part II

    Works, etc.

    1. Works

      1. 5. Power to make works.

    2. Provisions relating to Works Nos. 1 to 3, 5 and 6

      1. 6. Appropriation of works for Works Nos. 1 to 3, 5 and 6.

    3. Provisions relating to Work No. 4

      1. 7. Transitional provisions.

    4. Provisions relating to Work No. 9

      1. 8. Level crossing of Fenton Lane, Sherburn in Elmet, by Work No. 9.

    5. Provisions relating to Work No. 10

      1. 9. Marholm level crossing, Peterborough.

    6. Provisions relating to Works Nos. 11A and 11B

      1. 10. Level crossing of railway by Work No. 11B.

      2. 11. Ancillary works at Foxfield.

      3. 12. Stopping up, etc., of existing ways at Foxfield.

    7. Road, footpaths, etc.

      1. 13. Stopping up portion of Slate Lane and new footpath at Guide Bridge, Tameside.

      2. 14. Stopping up footpath at Little Bridgeford, Staffordshire.

    8. General works provisions

      1. 15. Power to deviate.

      2. 16. Stopping up highways without providing substitute.

      3. 17. Stopping up highways in case of diversion or substitution.

      4. 18. Appropriating sites of highways.

      5. 19. Repair of highways.

      6. 20. Agreements with highway authorities.

      7. 21. Temporary stoppage of highways.

      8. 22. Underpinning of buildings near works.

      9. 23. Use of sewers, etc., for removing water.

    9. Level crossings

      1. 24. Stopping up, etc., level crossings.

      2. 25. Aberleri level crossing, Borth, Dyfed.

      3. 26. Allen’s level crossing, Llwyngwril, Gwynedd.

      4. 27. Reduction in status of level crossings.

  3. Part III

    Land

    1. Purchase of land, etc.

      1. 28. Purchase of land.

      2. 29. Purchase of rights over land.

      3. 30. Purchase of specific new rights over land.

      4. 31. Temporary use of land.

    2. General lands provisions

      1. 32. Purchase of part of certain properties.

      2. 33. Disregard of recent improvements and interests.

      3. 34. Extinction or suspension of private rights of way.

      4. 35. Correction of errors in deposited plans and book of reference.

      5. 36. Cellars under streets not referenced.

      6. 37. Set-off for enhancement in value of retained land.

      7. 38. Amendment of British Railways Acts 1989 and 1990.

      8. 39. Time for purchase of land and rights over land.

  4. Part IV

    Protective provisions

    1. 40. Notice of interference with roads.

    2. 41. For protection of electricity, gas and water undertakers.

    3. 42. For protection of North West Water Limited.

    4. 43. For protection of telecommunications operators.

    5. 44. Crown rights.

  5. Part V

    General

    1. 45. Planning permission.

    2. 46. Arbitration.

  6. Schedules:

    1. Schedule 1

      —Descriptions of works referred to in section 5 of this Act.

    2. Schedule 2

      —Enactments and works referred to in section 6 of this Act.

    3. Schedule 3

      —Lands.

      1. Part I

        —Land referred to in section 28 (2) of this Act.

      2. Part II

        —Means of access referred to in section 30 (Purchase of specific new rights over land) of this Act.

      3. Part III

        —Temporary working sites.

    4. Schedule 4

      —Modification of Part I of Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 for purchase of new rights.

An Act to empower the British Railways Board to construct works and to acquire land; to confer further powers on the Board; and for other purposes.

[29th March 1993]

Whereas—

(1)

It is the duty of the British Railways Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) under the [1962 c. 46.] Transport Act 1962 (inter alia) to provide railway services in Great Britain and, in connection with the provision of railway services, to provide such other services and facilities as appear to the Board to be expedient, and to have due regard, as respects all those railway and other services and facilities, to efficiency, economy and safety of operation:

(2)

It is expedient that the Board should be empowered to construct the works authorised by this Act and to acquire or use the land referred to in this Act:

(3)

It is expedient that the other powers in this Act contained should be conferred on the Board, and that the other provisions in this Act contained should be enacted:

(4)

Plans and sections showing the lines or situations and levels of the works to be constructed under this Act, and plans of the land authorised to be acquired or used by this Act, and a book of reference to such plans containing the names of the owners and lessees, or reputed owners and lessees, and of the occupiers of the said land were duly deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the proper officers of the councils of the counties, metropolitan districts and London borough within which the said works may be constructed or the said land is situated, which plans, sections and book of reference are respectively referred to in this Act as the deposited plans, the deposited sections and the deposited book of reference:

(5)

The purposes of this Act could not have been effected without the authority of Parliament when the Bill for this Act was deposited:

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and 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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