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London Docklands Railway (Lewisham) Act 1993

1993 CHAPTER vii

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Preliminary

    1. 1. Short title.

    2. 2. Interpretation.

    3. 3. Incorporation of general enactments.

  2. Part II

    Works

    1. 4. Power to make works.

    2. 5. Power to open surface of streets.

    3. 6. Stopping up of streets.

    4. 7. Stopping up, etc., of footpaths.

    5. 8. Temporary stoppage of streets and footpaths.

    6. 9. As to use of part of river Thames.

    7. 10. General mode of construction of underground railway.

    8. 11. Use of sewers, etc., for removing water.

    9. 12. Power to deviate.

    10. 13. Marking of tidal works.

    11. 14. Agreements with British Railways Board.

    12. 15. Plans, etc., to be approved by Secretary of State.

    13. 16. Listed building provisions, etc., not to apply to works.

    14. 17. Incorporation of works provisions.

  3. Part III

    Lands

    1. 18. Power to acquire lands.

    2. 19. Power to acquire subsoil or new rights only in certain cases.

    3. 20. Subsoil or new rights only to be acquired under certain lands.

    4. 21. Application of Lands Clauses Acts to compulsory purchase of new rights.

    5. 22. Set-off for enhancement in value of retained land.

    6. 23. Temporary possession of land.

    7. 24. Ecclesiastical property.

    8. 25. Period for compulsory purchase of lands and new rights.

    9. 26. Incorporation of lands provisions.

  4. Part IV

    Protective provisions

    1. 27. Incorporation of protective provisions.

    2. 28. Notice of interference with streets.

    3. 29. Crown rights.

    4. 30. For protection of British Railways Board.

    5. 31. For protection of National Rivers Authority.

    6. 32. For protection of Port of London Authority and users of river Thames.

    7. 33. For protection of Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.

  5. Part V

    General provisions

    1. 34. Additional fares.

    2. 35. Closure of part of Docklands Railway.

    3. 36. Planning permission.

    4. 37. Arbitration.

    5. 38. Costs of Act.

  6. Schedules:

    1. Schedule 1

      —Descriptions of works referred to in section 4 (Power to make works) of this Act.

    2. Schedule 2

      —Streets referred to in section 5 (Power to open surface of streets) of this Act.

    3. Schedule 3

      —Streets referred to in section 6 (Stopping up of streets) of this Act.

    4. Schedule 4

      —Footpaths referred to in section 7 (Stopping up, etc., of footpaths) of this Act.

    5. Schedule 5

      —Streets and footpaths referred to in section 8 (Temporary stoppage of streets and footpaths) of this Act.

    6. Schedule 6

      —Buildings referred to in section 16 (Listed building provisions, etc., not to apply to works) of this Act

    7. Schedule 7

      —Lands referred to in section 19 (Power to acquire subsoil or new rights only in certain cases) of this Act.

    8. Schedule 8

      —Lands referred to in section 20 (Subsoil or new rights only to be acquired under certain lands) of this Act.

    9. Schedule 9

      —Lands referred to in section 23 (Temporary possession of land) of this Act.

An Act to empower Docklands Light Railway Limited to construct works and to acquire lands; to confer further powers on Docklands Light Railway Limited; and for related purposes.

[27th May 1993]

Whereas—

(1)

It is the general duty of London Regional Transport (in this Act referred to as “LRT”) under the [1984 c. 32.] London Regional Transport Act 1984, in accordance with principles from time to time approved by the Secretary of State and in conjunction with the British Railways Board, to provide or secure the provision of public passenger transport services for Greater London, and in carrying out that duty LRT are to have due regard to the transport needs for the time being of Greater London:

(2)

In pursuance of that duty LRT constructed a railway (in this Act referred to as “the Docklands Railway”) pursuant to the [1984 c. iv.] London Docklands Railway Act 1984 and later Acts:

(3)

By the London Docklands Light Railway Transfer Scheme 1992, made under the provisions of sections 9 (6) and 27 of the [1984 c. 32.] London Regional Transport Act 1984, there were transferred from LRT to Docklands Light Railway Limited (in this Act referred to as “the Company”), then a wholly-owned subsidiary of LRT, all the property, rights and liabilities comprised in those parts of LRT’s undertaking connected with the Docklands Railway (except as provided in the said Scheme), together with any functions under any statutory provision relating to the Docklands Railway:

(4)

On 1st April 1992 LRT disposed of their securities in the Company to the London Docklands Development Corporation (in this Act referred to as “the LDDC”) and accordingly the Company are now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the LDDC:

(5)

It is the function of the LDDC to secure the regeneration of its area which comprises London docklands:

(6)

In the view of LRT it would help to meet the transport needs of Greater London if the Docklands Railway were extended from the Isle of Dogs to Lewisham and it is the view of the LDDC that such an extension would assist in the regeneration of London docklands:

(7)

It is accordingly proposed that the Docklands Railway should be extended from the Isle of Dogs to Lewisham:

(8)

It is expedient that for the purposes aforesaid the Company should be empowered to construct the works authorised by, and to acquire the lands referred to in, this Act:

(9)

It is expedient that the other powers in this Act contained should be conferred upon the Company and that the other provisions in this Act contained should be enacted:

(10)

Plans and sections showing the lines or situations and levels of the works to be constructed under the powers of this Act, and plans of the lands 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 lands, 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 London borough councils of Tower Hamlets, Greenwich and Lewisham which plans, sections and the book of reference are respectively referred to in this Act as the deposited plans, the deposited sections and the deposited book of reference:

(11)

The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament:

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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