PART 2WORKS PROVISIONS

Supplemental powers

Planning permission

19.—(1) Planning permission which is deemed by a direction under section 90(2A) of the 1990 Act to be granted in relation to the authorised works is to be treated as specific planning permission for the purposes of section 264(3)(a) of that Act (cases in which land is to be treated as operational land for the purposes of that Act).

(2) For the purpose of section 262(1) of the 1990 Act (meaning of “statutory undertakers”) the rapid transit system is to be regarded as a road transport undertaking.