The Swanage Light Railway Order 1987

Interpretation

2.  In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—

“the Board” means the British Railway Board;

“the Board’s railway” means so much of the former railway of the Board in the District of Purbeck in the County of Dorset described in and authorised by the enabling Act and works relating thereto as lies between the former railway station in Swanage at a point immediately to the west of Rempstone Road and Harman’s Cross in the Parish of Worth Matravers at a point two hundred and fifty metres to the west of the place at which Haycraft’s Lane crosses the former railway line and includes all lands formerly held by the Board relating to the said railway and lying between those points;

“the Company” means the Swanage Railway Company Limited incorporated under the Companies Act 1948(1) and having its registered office at The Station House, Swanage, Dorset BH19 1HB;

“the Company’s railway” means the railway authorized to be constructed, made and maintained by the Company pursuant to article 5 of this Order;

“the County Council” means the Dorset County Council;

“the County Council’s land” means such of the site of the Board’s railway as is vested in the County Council;

“the enabling Act” means the Swanage Railway Act 1881(2);

“the deposited plans” and “the deposited sections” means respectively the plans and sections deposited in respect of the application for this Order with the Department of Transport;

“the principal Act” means the Light Railway Acts 1896 and 1912, as amended by the Railways Act 1921.

(1)

1948 c. 38.

(2)

1881 c. clix.