Heathrow Express Railway (No. 2) Act 1991

1991 CHAPTER ix

An Act to empower Heathrow Airport Limited to purchase or use additional land; and for related purposes.

[27th June 1991]

WHEREAS—

(1) By the [1965 c. 16.] Airports Authority Act 1965 Heathrow Airport (hereinafter referred to as (“Heathrow”) was, on 1st April 1966, vested in the British Airports Authority (hereinafter referred to as “the Authority”) and by the [S.I. 1986/1229.] Airports Act 1986 (Nominated Company) Order 1986, made under the [1986 c. 31.] Airports Act 1986, BAA plc was nominated as the successor company to the Authority:

(2) By virtue of section 1 of the said Act of 1986 and the British Airports Authority Transfer Scheme 1986 that part of the Authority’s undertaking comprising Heathrow was transferred to Heathrow Airport Limited (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”), being a wholly owned subsidiary of BAA plc, and it is the Company who now own and operate Heathrow:

(3) By the [1991 c. vii.] Heathrow Express Railway Act 1991 (hereinafter referred as as “the principal Act”) provision is made for the construction by the Company of works to form a new spur railway into Heathrow so as to provide improved services and facilities for passengers travelling to or from Heathrow:

(4) It is expedient that, to enable the Company to carry out their works (as defined in the principal Act), they should be empowered to purchase or use the land referred to in this Act and that the other provisions in this Act contained should be enacted:

(5) A plan of the land authorised to be purchased or used by this Act, and a book of reference to that plan containing the names of the owner and lessees, or reputed owner and lessees, and of the occupiers of the said land were duly deposited in the office of Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the proper officer of the council of the London Borough of Hillingdon, which plan and book of reference are respectively referred to in this Act as the deposited plan and the deposited book of reference:

(6) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament:

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—