The Docklands Light Railway (Capacity Enhancement and 2012 Games Preparation) Order 2007

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1845 Act” means the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845(1);

“the 1961 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961(2);

“the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965(3);

“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980(4);

“the 1981 Act” means the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(5);

“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(6);

“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(7);

“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(8);

“the 1993 Act” means the Railways Act 1993(9);

“the 1994 Act” means the London Docklands Development Corporation Act 1994(10);

“the 2003 Act” means the Communications Act 2003(11);

“the Applications Rules” means the Transport and Works (Applications and Objections Procedure) (England and Wales) Rules 2000;

“authorised works” means the scheduled works and any other works authorised by this Order or any part of them;

“the Bank to Canary Wharf Railway” means that part of the Docklands Light Railway that operates between Bank Station in the City of London and Canary Wharf Station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets;

“the Board” means the British Waterways Board;

“the book of reference” means the book of reference certified by the Secretary of State as the book of reference for the purposes of this Order;

“carriageway” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;

“the deposited plans” means the plans prepared in pursuance of rule 12(1)(a) and (5) of the Applications Rules and certified by the Secretary of State as the deposited plans for the purposes of this Order and references to land shown on those plans are references to land so shown in pursuance of rule 12(5);

“the deposited sections” means the sections prepared in pursuance of rule 12(3) of the Applications Rules and certified by the Secretary of State as the deposited sections for the purposes of this Order;

“DLRL” means Docklands Light Railway Limited, a company limited by shares and registered in England and Wales under number 2052677;

“the Dock” means the West India North Branch Dock shown on the maps referred to in section 3 of the 1994 Act;

“footpath”, “highway” and “highway authority” have the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;

“the limits of deviation” means the limits of lateral deviation for the scheduled works mentioned in article 5(1) (power to construct and maintain works);

“the limits of land to be acquired or used” means the limits so shown and described on the deposited plans;

“maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct and replace, and “maintenance” shall be construed accordingly;

“mooring” means any buoy, pile, pontoon chain or other apparatus used for the mooring of vessels;

“Network Rail” means Network Rail Infrastructure Limited;

“the Order limits” means the limits of deviation and the limits of land to be acquired or used shown on the deposited plans;

“owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in the 1981 Act;

“parking place” has the same meaning as in section 32 of the 1984 Act;

“pile strengthening” means works to construct, alter or otherwise strengthen piers and columns to support DLRL’s railway viaduct;

“the Poplar to Canary Wharf Railway” means that part of the Docklands Light Railway that operates between Poplar Station and Canary Wharf Station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets;

“public communications provider” has the same meaning as in section 151(1) of the 2003 Act;

“public utility undertakers” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;

“the scheduled works” means the works specified in Schedule 1 or any part of them;

“station works” means works to provide platform extensions, stairs, passenger lifts, canopies, electricity substations, the carrying out of viaduct strengthening and the provision of working sites and access;

“street” includes part of a street;

“street authority”, in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act;

“the tribunal” means the Lands Tribunal; and

“viaduct strengthening” means pile strengthening, works to attach steel plates to DLRL’s railway viaduct and such other works to strengthen DLRL’s railway viaduct as DLRL thinks fit.

(2) References in this Order to rights over land include references to rights to do, or to place and maintain, anything in, on or under land or in the air-space over its surface.

(3) References in this Order to points identified by letters, with or without numbers, shall be construed as references to the points so marked on the deposited plans.

(4) All distances, directions and lengths stated in the description of the scheduled works or in any description of powers or lands shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each such distance, direction and length, and distances between points on a scheduled work shall be taken to be measured along the scheduled work.

(1)

1845 c. 20.

(2)

1961 c. 33.

(3)

1965 c. 56.

(4)

1980 c. 66.

(5)

1981 c. 67.

(6)

1984 c. 27.

(7)

1990 c. 8.

(8)

1991 c. 22.

(9)

1993 c. 43.

(10)

1994 c. xiii.

(11)

2003 c. 21.