High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Act 2021

1 Power to construct and maintain works for Phase 2a of High Speed 2

(1) The nominated undertaker may construct and maintain the works specified in Schedule 1, being—

(a) works for the construction of a railway between—

(i) a junction with Phase One of High Speed 2 near Fradley Wood in Staffordshire, and

(ii) a junction with the West Coast Main Line near Crewe in Cheshire,

(b) other railway works which are required for the purposes of—

(i) the railway mentioned in paragraph (a), or

(ii) a high speed railway transport system of which that railway forms or is to form part, and

(c) works consequent on, or incidental to, works within paragraph (a) or (b).

(2) In this Act, the works specified in Schedule 1 are called the “scheduled works”.

(3) References in this Act to “Phase 2a of High Speed 2” are to the railway mentioned in subsection (1)(a).

(4) In subsection (1)(a), “Phase One of High Speed 2” has the same meaning as in the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017 (see section 1(3) of that Act).