The Docklands Light Railway (Woolwich Arsenal Extension) Order 2004

Interpretation E+W

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1961 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961 M1 ;

“the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 M2 ;

“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 M3 ;

“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 M4 ;

“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 M5 ;

“the 1992 Act” means the Transport and Works Act 1992 M6 ;

“the Applications Rules” means the Transport and Works (Applications and Objections Procedure) (England and Wales) Rules 2000 M7 ;

“the authorised railway” means the railways authorised by this Order or any part of them;

“authorised works” means the scheduled works and any other works authorised by this Order or any part of them;

“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;

“carriageway” has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980 M8 ;

“the deposited plans” means the composite plans 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 rule 12(5) of the Application Rules;

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

“DLRL” means Docklands Light Railway Limited, a company limited by shares and registered in England and Wales under number 2052677;

“highway” and “highway authority” have the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980;

“the limits of deviation” means the limits of lateral deviation for the scheduled works mentioned in article 5(1)(a);

“the limits of land for safeguarding works” means the limits so shown and described on the deposited plans;

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

“mooring” means any buoy, pile, pontoon, chain or other apparatus used for the mooring of vessels;

“occupier” means a person occupying land under a tenancy for a period of more than one month (not being a statutory tenant within the meaning of the Rent Act 1977 M9 or the Rent Agriculture Act 1976) M10 ;

“the open space and exchange land plan” means the plan so headed and attached to the deposited plans;

“the Order limits” means the limits of deviation and the limits of additional land to be acquired or used shown on the deposited plans;

“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;

“parking place” has the same meaning as in section 32 of the 1984 Act;

“RoDMA” means the company registered by the name of the Royal Docks Management Authority Limited with the registered number 2363622 or any other person or body exercising functions under the London Docklands Development Corporation Act 1994 M11 as successor to RoDMA;

“the scheduled works” means the works specified in Schedule 1 to this Order or any part of them;

“street” includes part of a street;

“street authority”, in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part III of the 1991 Act;

“tidal work” means so much of any temporary authorised work as is in, on, over or under the River Thames or King George V Dock or involves cutting their banks and walls;

“the tribunal” means the Lands Tribunal; and

“the tunnels” means the tunnels under the River Thames forming part of Work No. 1.

(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.

(3) Any reference in this Order to a work identified by the number of the work shall be construed as a reference to the work of that number authorised by this Order.

(4) References in this Order to points identified by letters, with or without numbers, shall be construed as references to the points marked on the deposited plans.

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

Marginal Citations

M1 1961 c. 33.

M2 1965 c. 56.

M3 1984 c. 27.

M4 1990 c. 8.

M5 1991 c. 22.

M6 1992 c. 42.

M7 S.I. 2000/2190.

M8 1980 c. 66.

M9 1977 c. 42. See section 2(1) and Schedule 1, as amended by the Housing Act 1980 (c. 51), sections 76 and 153(2) and Schedule 26, and the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), section 39(1).

M10 1976 c. 80. See section 4, as amended by the Rent Act 1977, section 155 and Schedule 23, and the Housing Act 1980, section 76(3).

M11 1994 c. xiii.