The Kirklees Light Railway Order 1991

Interpretation

2.  In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—

“the Board” means the British Railways Board;

“the Board’s railway” means so much of the former railway of the Board in the Borough of Kirklees in the County of West Yorkshire described in and authorised by the enabling Act and works relating thereto as lies between a point 39 metres east of the easternmost abutment of the bridge over Copley Lane in the parish of Kirkburton and the former railway station to the west of Long Lane in Clayton West in the parish of Denby Dale and includes all lands formerly held by the Board relating to the said railway and lying between those points;

“the Company” means the Kirklees Light Railway Company Limited incorporated under the Companies Act 1985(1) and having its registered office at Number 7 Abbey Road, Shepley, in the County of West Yorkshire;

“the Company’s railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed, made and maintained by the Company pursuant to article 5 of this Order;

“the Council” means the Council of the Borough of Kirklees;

“the Council’s land” means such of the site of the Board’s railway as is vested in the Council;

“the Definitive Map” means the definitive map for the area prepared under section 53 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981(2);

“the deposited plans” and “the deposited sections” mean respectively the plans and sections deposited in respect of the application for this Order with the Department of Transport;

“the enabling Act” means the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (West Riding Branches) Act 1866(3);

“the principal Act” means the Light Railways Act 1896.

(1)

1985 c. 6.

(2)

1981 c. 69.

(3)

1866 c. lxxi.