The Piccadilly Line (Heathrow T5 Extension) Order 2002

PART I PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Piccadilly Line (Heathrow T5 Extension) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 30th April 2002.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965(1);

“the Applications Rules” means the Transport and Works (Applications and Objections Procedure) Rules 1992;

“authorised works” means the scheduled works and any other works authorised by this Order;

“the book of reference” means the book of reference certified by the Secretary of State as the book of reference for the purposes of this Order;

“building” includes any structure or erection or any part of a building, structure or erection;

“the Company” means London Underground Limited;

“the deposited plans” means the plans described in rule 7(1)(a) and (3) of the Applications Rules prepared in connection with the application for this Order and the plan referred to in article 7(2) and certified by the Secretary of State as the deposited plans for the purposes of this Order and references to land shown on those plans are references to land so shown in pursuance of that rule;

“the deposited sections” means the sections certified by the Secretary of State as the deposited sections for the purposes of this Order;

“the limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation for the scheduled works shown on the deposited plans;

“maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct and replace, and “maintenance” shall be construed accordingly;

“owner”, in relation to land, means a person, other than a mortgagee not in possession, who is for the time being entitled to dispose of the fee simple of land (whether in possession or reversion) and includes a person holding, or entitled to the rents and profits of, the land under a lease or tenancy having an unexpired term exceeding 3 years;

“the scheduled works” means the works specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;

“the tribunal” means the Lands Tribunal.

(2) References in this Order to rights over land include references to rights to do, or to place and maintain, anything in or on land or in the air-space over its surface, and references to the subsoil of any land include references to any cellar, basement, vault, arch or other construction forming part of any such land.

(3) All directions, distances and lengths stated in any description of works, powers or lands shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each such direction and length and distances between points on a railway shall be taken to be measured along the railway.

Incorporation of the Railways Clauses Acts

3.—(1) The following provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845(2) shall be incorporated in this Order—

• section 24 (obstructing construction of railway);

• section 58 (company to repair roads used by them), except for the words from “and if any question” to the end;

• section 68 (accommodation works by company);

• section 71 (additional accommodation works by owners), except for the words “or directed by such justices to be made by the company” and “or, in the case of difference, as shall be authorised by two justices”;

• sections 72 and 73 (supplementary provisions relating to accommodation works);

• section 77 (presumption that minerals excepted from acquisition of land);

• sections 78 to 85E and Schedules 1 to 3 (minerals under railways), as respectively substituted and inserted by section 15 of the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1923(3);

• sections 103 and 104 (refusal to quit carriage at destination);

• section 105 (carriage of dangerous goods on railway);

• section 145 (recovery of penalties);

• section 154 (transient offenders).

(2) The following provision of the Railways Clauses Act 1863(4) shall be incorporated in this Order—

• section 12 (signals, watchmen etc.).

(3) In those provisions, as incorporated in this Order—

“the company” means the Company;

“goods” includes any thing conveyed on the railways authorised to be constructed by this Order;

“lease” includes an agreement for a lease;

“prescribed”, in relation to any such provision, means prescribed by this Order for the purposes of that provision;

“the railway” means any railway authorised to be constructed by this Order and, except where the context otherwise requires, any other authorised works;

“the special Act” means this Order;

“toll” includes any rate or charge or other payment payable under this Order or any other enactment for any passenger or goods conveyed on any railway authorised to be constructed by this Order.

(1)

1965 c. 56.

(2)

1845 c. 20.

(3)

1923 c. 20.

(4)

1863 c. 92.