The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Land Acquisition) Order 2001

PART III MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

Certification of plans etc.

13.  The Executive shall, as soon as practicable after the making of this Order, submit copies of the book of reference and the land plan to the Secretary of State for certification that they are true copies of, respectively, the book of reference and plan referred to in this Order; and a document so certified shall be admissible in any proceedings as evidence of the contents of the document of which it is a copy.

Modification of the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1994

14.—(1) Sections 43 (for protection of electricity, gas and water undertakers) and 44 (For protection of North West Water Authority) of the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1988(1) as applied by section 11 of the 1994 Act shall apply to the powers of compulsory acquisition contained in this Order as they applied to the powers of compulsory acquisition contained in the 1994 Act and the reference to the deposited plans in subsection (3) of section 43 shall be taken to include a reference to the land plan prepared for the purposes of this Order.

(2) The following provisions of the 1994 Act shall also apply to the powers of compulsory acquisition contained in this Order:

• section 18 (For protection of British Railways Board)

• section 19 (For protection of telecommunications operators)

• section 20 (For protection of Trustees of King Street Baptist Church, Oldham).

For protection of Railtrack PLC

15.  The provisions of Schedule 2 (for the protection of Railtrack PLC) shall have effect.

(1)

1988 c. i.