The Blackpool Tramway (Blackpool North Extension) Order 2017

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 PRELIMINARY

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

   3. 3. Application of enactments relating to railways

   4. 4. Application of Order to existing Blackpool Tramway

   5. 5. Application, modification and exclusion of legislative provisions relating to street works

3. PART 2 WORKS PROVISIONS

   1. Principal powers

      1. 6. Power to construct and maintain works

      2. 7. Power to deviate

      3. 8. Designation of works

   2. Streets

      1. 9. Power to alter layout, etc., of streets

      2. 10. Power to keep apparatus in streets

      3. 11. Power to execute street works

      4. 12. Temporary stopping up of streets

      5. 13. Access to works

      6. 14. Construction and maintenance of new, altered or diverted streets

      7. 15. Restoration of streets if street tramway discontinued

      8. 16. Agreements with street authorities

      9. 17. New road crossings

   3. Supplemental powers

      1. 18. Attachment of equipment to buildings

      2. 19. Discharge of water

      3. 20. Safeguarding works to buildings

      4. 21. Power to construct temporary street tramway

      5. 22. Planning permission

      6. 23. Power to survey and investigate land, etc.

      7. 24. Mode of construction and operation of tram system

      8. 25. Obstruction of construction of authorised works

4. PART 3 ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

   1. Powers of acquisition

      1. 26. Power to acquire land

      2. 27. Application of Part 1 of the 1965 Act

      3. 28. Application of Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981

      4. 29. Powers to acquire new rights

      5. 30. Powers to acquire subsoil only

      6. 31. Rights under or over streets

   2. Temporary possession of land

      1. 32. Temporary use of land for construction of works

      2. 33. Temporary use of land for maintenance of works

   3. Compensation

      1. 34. Disregard of certain interests and improvements

   4. Supplementary

      1. 35. Extinction or suspension of private rights of way

      2. 36. Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition

5. PART 4 OPERATION OF TRAM SYSTEM

   1. 37. Power to operate and use tram system

   2. 38. Power to charge fares

   3. 39. Removal of obstructions

   4. 40. Traffic signs

   5. 41. Traffic regulation

   6. 42. Power to lop trees overhanging tram system

   7. 43. Trespass on tramroad

   8. 44. Power to make byelaws

   9. 45. Power to contract for police services

   10. 46. Powers of disposal, agreements for operation, etc.

   11. 47. Application of landlord and tenant law

   12. 48. Tramcars deemed public service vehicles

   13. 49. Substitute road services

6. PART 5 PENALTY FARES

   1. 50. Interpretation of Part 5

   2. 51. Operation of Part 5

   3. 52. Penalty fares

   4. 53. Amount of penalty fare

   5. 54. Document to be issued in connection with penalty fare requirement

   6. 55. Notice of penalty fare provisions

   7. 56. Supplementary provisions

   8. 57. Exclusion of double liability

7. PART 6 PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

   1. 58. Minerals

   2. 59. Saving for highway authorities

   3. 60. Statutory undertakers, etc.

8. PART 7 MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

   1. 61. Disclosure of confidential information

   2. 62. Defence to proceedings in respect of statutory nuisance

   3. 63. Certification of plans, etc.

   4. 64. Service of notices

   5. 65. No double recovery

   6. 66. Arbitration

9. Signature

10. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

       SCHEDULED WORKS

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       STREETS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION OF LAYOUT

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       STREETS TO BE TEMPORARILY STOPPED UP

    4. SCHEDULE 4

       MODIFICATION OF COMPENSATION AND COMPULSORY PURCHASE ENACTMENTS FOR CREATION OF NEW RIGHTS

       1. Compensation enactments

          1. 1. The enactments for the time being in force with respect...

          2. 2. (1) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph 1, the...

          3. 3. (1) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph 1, the...

       2. Application of Part 1 of the 1965 Act

          1. 4. Part 1 (compulsory purchase under Acquisition of Land Act 1946)...

          2. 5. (1) The modifications referred to in paragraph 4(a) are as...

    5. SCHEDULE 5

       LAND OF WHICH TEMPORARY POSSESSION MAY BE TAKEN

    6. SCHEDULE 6

       TRAFFIC REGULATION

       1. Interpretation

       2. PART 1 STOPPING, WAITING, LOADING OR UNLOADING

       3. PART 2 PARKING PLACES

       4. PART 3 DIRECTION OF TRAFFIC

       5. PART 4 VEHICULAR ACCESS

    7. SCHEDULE 7

       PROVISIONS RELATING TO STATUTORY UNDERTAKERS, ETC.

       1. Apparatus of statutory undertakers, etc., on land acquired

          1. 1. Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, sections 271...

          2. 2. In the provisions of the 1990 Act, as applied by...

          3. 3. Where any apparatus of public utility undertakers or of a...

          4. 4. Paragraph 3 does not apply in the case of the...

          5. 5. In this Schedule— “public communications provider” has the same meaning...

11. Explanatory Note