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British Railways (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. xi)

1992 CHAPTER xi

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. 2B and 2C

      1. 6. Dimensions of bridges at Langley.

    3. Provisions relating to Work No. 7

      1. 7. Appropriation of works for Work No. 7.

    4. Provisions relating to Works Nos. 9 and 10

      1. 8. Level crossing of Brinsworth Street, Rotherham, by Works Nos. 9 and 10.

    5. Provisions relating to Works Nos. 13 and 13A

      1. 9. Stopping up portion of Whinny Hagg Lane, Hambleton.

    6. Provisions relating to Works Nos. 14 and 14A

      1. 10. Stopping up portion of Little Heck Common Lane and new bridleway at Hensall.

    7. Provisions relating to Work No. 15

      1. 11. Platform extensions at Elephant & Castle station.

    8. Other station works

      1. 12. Works at Langley, Iver and West Drayton stations.

      2. 13. Platform extension at Braintree station, Essex.

    9. Level crossings

      1. 14. New level crossing at Northampton.

    10. General works provisions

      1. 15. Power to deviate.

      2. 16. Stopping up highways in case of diversion or substitution.

      3. 17. Appropriating sites of highways.

      4. 18. Repair of highways.

      5. 19. Agreements with highway authorities.

      6. 20. Temporary stoppage of highways.

      7. 21. Underpinning of buildings near works.

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

  3. Part III

    River bridge at Gainsborough

    1. 23. Interpretation of Part III.

    2. 24. Headway of bridge at Gainsborough.

    3. 25. Subsidiary works in river Trent.

  4. Part IV

    Land

    1. purchase of land, etc.

      1. 26. Purchase of land.

      2. 27. Purchase of rights over land.

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

      4. 29. Temporary use of land.

    2. general lands provisionsSection

      1. 30. Purchase of part of certain properties.

      2. 31. Disregard of recent improvements and interests.

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

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

      5. 34. Cellars under streets not referenced.

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

      7. 36. Time for purchase of land and rights over land.

    3. Extension of time

      1. 37. Extension of time.

  5. Part V

    Protective provisions

    1. 38. Notice of interference with roads.

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

    3. 40. For protection of sewerage undertakers.

    4. 41. For protection of telecommunications operators.

    5. 42. For protection of National Rivers Authority.

    6. 43. For protection of Berkshire County Council.

    7. 44. For protection of National Carriers Limited.

    8. 45. Crown rights.

  6. Part VI

    General

    1. 46. Relinquishment, etc., of works.

    2. 47. Planning permission.

    3. 48. Repeals.

    4. 49. Arbitration.

  7. Schedules:

    1. Schedule 1

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

    2. Schedule 2

      1. Part I

        —Land referred to in section 26 (2) of this Act.

      2. Part II

        —Means of access referred to in section 28 of this Act.

      3. Part III

        —Temporary working sites.

    3. Schedule 3

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

    4. Schedule 4

      —Repeals—

      1. Part I

        —Repeals in consequence of section 24 of this Act.

      2. Part II

        —Repeals in consequence of section 46 of this Act.

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.

[18th June 1992]

WHEREAS—

(1) By the Transport Act 1962 the [1962 c. 46.] British Railways Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) were established:

(2) It is the duty of the Board under the said Act of 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:

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

(4) 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:

(5) 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 purchased or used by this Act, and a book of reference to such planscontaining 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 London boroughs, counties and metropolitan districts 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:

(6) 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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