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“Act of 1965” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965;
“adjoining” includes abutting on, and “adjoins” is to be construed accordingly;
“advance payments code” has the meaning provided by section 203(1) above;
“agriculture” includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur, or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land), the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes, and “agricultural” is to be construed accordingly;
“apparatus” includes any structure constructed for the lodging therein of apparatus;
“approach”, in relation to a bridge or tunnel, means the highway giving access thereto, that is to say, the surface of that highway together with any embankment, retaining wall or other work or substance supporting or protecting the surface;
“bridge” does not include a culvert, but, save as aforesaid, means a bridge or viaduct which is part of a highway, and includes the abutments and any other part of a bridge but not the highway carried thereby;
“bridleway” means a highway over which the public have the following, but no other, rights of way, that is to say, a right of way on foot and a right of way on horseback or leading a horse, with or without a right to drive animals of any description along the highway;
“by-pass” has the meaning provided by section 82(6) above;
“canal undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on a canal undertaking;
“carriageway” means a way constituting or comprised in a highway, being a way (other than a cycle track) over which the public have a right of way for the passage of vehicles;
“cattle-grid” has the meaning provided by section 82(6) above;
“City” means the City of London;
“classified road” means a highway or proposed highway which is a classified road in accordance with section 12 above;
“Common Council” means the Common Council of the City of London;
“contravention” in relation to a condition, restriction or requirement, includes failure to comply with that condition, restriction or requirement, and “contravene” is to be construed accordingly;
“council” means a county council . . . or a local authority;
“cycle track” means a way constituting or comprised in a highway, being a way over which the public have the following, but no other, rights of way, that is to say, a right of way on pedal cycles [(other than pedal cycles which are motor vehicles within the meaning of [the Road Traffic Act 1988]] with or without a right of way on foot;
[ “ definitive map and statement ” has the same meaning as in Part III of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981; ]
“dock undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on a dock undertaking;
“drainage authority” [means the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or] an internal drainage board;
[ “ driver information system ” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989, and references to an “operator” of a driver information system are references to an operator licensed under that Part of that Act; ]
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“enactment” includes an enactment in a local or private Act of Parliament and a provision of an order, scheme, regulations or other instrument made under or confirmed by a public general, local or private Act of Parliament;
[ “ field-edge path ” means a footpath or bridleway that follows the sides or headlands of a field or enclosure; ]
“financial year” means a year ending on 31st March;
“” means a highway over which the public have a right of way on foot only, not being a footway;
“” means a way comprised in a highway which also comprises a carriageway, being a way over which the public have a right of way on foot only;
“functions” includes powers and duties;
[ “ GLA road ” shall be construed in accordance with section 14D(1) above; ]
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“harbour undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on a harbour undertaking;
“highway land acquisition powers” has the meaning provided by section 250(1) above;
“highway maintainable at the public expense” means a highway which by virtue of section 36 above or of any other enactment (whether contained in this Act or not) is a highway which for the purposes of this Act is a highway maintainable at the public expense;
“horse” includes pony, ass and mule, and “horseback” is to be construed accordingly;
“hours of darkness” means the time between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise;
“improvement” means the doing of any act under powers conferred by Part V of this Act and includes the erection, maintenance, alteration and removal of traffic signs, and the freeing of a highway or road-ferry from tolls;
“inland navigation undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on an inland navigation undertaking;
“land” includes land covered by water and any interest or right in, over or under land;
“lease” includes an underlease and an agreement for a lease or underlease, but does not include an option to take a lease or mortgage, and “lessee” is to be construed accordingly;
“lighting authority” means a council or other body authorised to provide lighting under section 161 of the Public Health Act 1875 or under section 3 of the Parish Councils Act 1957 or any corresponding local enactment;
“local authority” means the council of a district or London borough or the Common Council [but, in relation to Wales, means a Welsh council];
“local highway authority” means a highway authority other than the Minister[or a strategic highways company];
“local planning authority” has the same meaning as in [the Town and Country Planning Act 1990];
“lorry area” means an area provided under section 115 above;
“made-up carriageway” means a carriageway, or a part thereof, which has been metalled or in any other way provided with a surface suitable for the passage of vehicles;
“maintenance” includes repair, and “maintain” and “maintainable” are to be construed accordingly;
“maintenance compound” means an area of land (with or without buildings) used or to be used in connection with the maintenance of highways, or a particular highway;
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“the Minister”, subject to subsection (5) below, means as respects England, the Minister of Transport and as respects Wales, the Secretary of State; and in section 258 of, and paragraphs 7, 8(1) and (3), 14, 15(1) and (3), 18(2), 19 and 21 of Schedule 1 to, this Act, references to the Minister and the Secretary of State acting jointly are to be construed, as respects Wales, as references to the Secretary of State acting alone;
“navigation authority” means persons authorised by any enactment to work, maintain, conserve, improve or control any canal or other inland navigation, navigable river, estuary, harbour or dock;
“owner”, in relation to any premises, means a person, other than a mortgagee not in possession, who, whether in his own right or as trustee or agent for any other person, is entitled to receive the rack rent of the premises or, where the premises are not let at a rack rent, would be so entitled if the premises were so let;
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“pier undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on a pier undertaking;
“premises” includes land and buildings;
“private street works code” has the meaning provided by section 203(1) above;
“proposed highway” means land on which, in accordance with plans made by a highway authority, that authority are for the time being constructing or intending to construct a highway shown in the plans;
[ “ proprietor ”, in relation to a school, has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1996; ]
“public general enactment” means an enactment in an Act treated as a public general Act under the system of division of Acts adopted in the regnal year 38 George 3, other than an Act for confirming a provisional order;
“public path creation agreement” means an agreement under section 25 above;
“public path creation order” means an order under section 26 above;
“public path diversion order” means an order under section 119 above;
“public path extinguishment order” means an order under section 118 above;
“public utility undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on any of the following undertakings, that is to say, an undertaking for the supply of . . . gas . . . or hydraulic power;
“rack rent”, in relation to any premises, means a rent which is not less than two-thirds of the rent at which the premises might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free from all usual tenant’s rates and taxes, . . . and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance and other expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the same in a state to command such rent;
[ “ rail crossing diversion order ” means an order under section 119A above;
“ rail crossing extinguishment order ” means an order under section 118A above;. ]
“railway” includes a light railway;
“railway undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on a railway undertaking;
“reconstruction”, in relation to a bridge, includes the construction of a new bridge and approaches thereto in substitution for the existing bridge and the approaches thereto;
[ “ restricted byway ” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000; ]
“road-ferry” means a ferry connecting the termination of a highway which is, or is to become, a highway maintainable at the public expense with the termination of another highway which is, or is to become, such a highway;
[ “ road hump ” has the meaning provided by section 90F(1); ]
[ “ school ” has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1996; ]
“service area” means an area of land adjoining, or in the vicinity of, a special road, being an area in which there are, or are to be, provided service stations or other buildings or facilities to be used in connection with the use of the special road;
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[ “ special diversion order ” means an order under section 119B(4) above; ]
“special enactment” means any enactment other than a public general enactment;
[ “ special extinguishment order ” means an order under section 118B(4) above; ]
“special road” means a highway, or a proposed highway, which is a special road in accordance with section 16 above [or by virtue of an order granting development consent under the Planning Act 2008];
“special road authority” has the meaning provided by section 16(4) above;
[ “ SSSI diversion order ” means an order under section 119D above; ]
“statutory undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on any of the following undertakings:—
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a railway, tramway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, dock, harbour, pier or lighthouse undertaking, or
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an undertaking for the supply of . . . . . . . . . or hydraulic power,
and “statutory undertaking” is to be construed accordingly;
[“strategic highways company” means a company for the time being appointed under Part 1 of the Infrastructure Act 2015;]
[ “ street ” has the same meaning as in Part III of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991; ]
[ “ street works licence ” means a licence under section 50 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, and “ licensee ” in relation to such a licence, has the meaning given by subsection (3) of that section; ]
“swing bridge” includes any opening bridge operated by mechanical means;
“traffic” includes pedestrians and animals;
[ “ traffic calming works ”, in relation to a highway, means works affecting the movement of vehicular or other traffic for the purpose of—
(a)
promoting safety (including avoiding or reducing, or reducing the likelihood of, danger connected with terrorism within the meaning of section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11)), or
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preserving or improving the environment through which the highway runs;]
“traffic sign” has the same meaning as in [section 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984];
“tramway undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on a tramway undertaking;
“transport undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on any of the following undertakings, that is to say, a railway, canal, inland navigation, dock, harbour or pier undertaking, and “transport undertaking” is to be construed accordingly;
“trunk road” means a highway, or a proposed highway, which is a trunk road by virtue of section 10(1) or section 19 above or by virtue of an order or direction under section 10 above [or an order granting development consent under the Planning Act 2008,]or under any other enactment;
“trunk road picnic area” has the meaning provided by section 112(1) above;
[“universal service provider” has the same meaning as in [Part 3 of the Postal Services Act 2011]; and references to the provision of a universal postal service shall be construed in accordance with [that Part];]
[ “ water undertakers ” [means the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or]a water undertaker. ]
[ “ Welsh council ” means the council of a Welsh county or county borough. ]
This subsection applies to the following bodies, namely, the British Railways Board, the British Transport Docks Board, [Canal & River Trust], [Transport for London], . . . . . . any wholly-owned subsidiary (within the meaning of the Transport Act 1968) or joint subsidiary (within the meaning of section 51(5) of that Act) of any of those bodies [other than Transport for London, or any of its subsidiaries (within the meaning of the Greater London Authority Act 1999)].