Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996

44 Authorised works

(1) The Secretary of State may construct the works specified in Part I of Schedule 12 to this Act (“the A2 and M2 improvement works”).

(2) Part II of that Schedule shall have effect for conferring on the Secretary of State powers in relation to—

(a) the stopping up of highways and the extinguishment of rights of way over them,

(b) the stopping up of access to premises, and

(c) temporary interference with highways,

for the purposes of or in connection with the construction of any of the A2 and M2 improvement works.

(3) Part III of that Schedule shall have effect—

(a) for treating highways constructed by the Secretary of State in pursuance of that Schedule as highways of specified descriptions,

(b) for transferring such of those highways as do not become trunk roads to the Kent County Council,

(c) for treating operations and works in pursuance of that Schedule as authorised under specified provisions of the [1980 c. 66.] Highways Act 1980,

(d) for treating certain provisions of that Schedule as provisions of instruments made under specified provisions of that Act, and

(e) for enabling traffic on any highway constructed in pursuance of that Schedule to be subject to regulation under the [1984 c. 27.] Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as soon as it is open for public use.

(4) Subject to subsection (5) below, the A2 and M2 improvement works shall be constructed in the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans and in accordance with the levels shown on the deposited sections.

(5) In constructing any of the A2 and M2 improvement works, the Secretary of State may—

(a) deviate laterally from the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans to any extent within the limits of deviation for that work so shown, and

(b) deviate vertically from the level shown for that work on the deposited sections—

(i) to any extent not exceeding 3 metres upwards, and

(ii) to any extent downwards.