Anglian Water Authority (King's Lynn Tidal Defences) Act 1984
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1984 c. xiv |
Anglian
Water
Authority (King's
Lynn Tidal
c.
xiv
Defences) Act 1984
ELIZABETH H
1984 CHAPTER xiv
An Act to authorise the Anglian Water Authority to
construct works and to acquire lands; to confer further
powers on the Anglian Water Authority; and for other
purposes. [12th July 1984]
W
HEREAS the Anglian Water Authority (hereinafter in
this Act referred to as "the Authority") were, in
pursuance of the Water Act 1973, constituted as the authority
1973
c.
37.
responsible for water conservation, the supply of water, the
provision of public sewerage and sewage disposal, land
drainage, the prevention of pollution, water recreation and
the management and improvement of salmon, trout and
freshwater fisheries in an area comprising the counties of
Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts
of the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex,
Hertfordshire, Humberside, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire,
Nottinghamshire and Oxfordshire and part of the London
borough of Havering:
And whereas it is expedient for the improvement of the sea
defences of King's Lynn and its environs that the Authority
2 c. xiv Anglian Water Authority (King's Lynn Tidal
Defences)
Act 1984
should be empowered to construct in and about the tidal
sections of the river Great Ouse and the river Nar the works
specified by this Act and to acquire lands for such works:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions in this
Act should be enacted:
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines, situations
and levels of the works authorised by this Act, and a book of
reference to such plans containing the names of the owners
and
lessees, or reputed owners and lessees, and of the occupiers, of
the lands which may be acquired or used compulsorily under
the powers of
this
Act, have been deposited in the office of the
Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office, House
of
Commons, and with the chief executive of the county council
of
the
county of Norfolk and such plans, sections and book
of
reference are in this Act respectively referred to as the deposited
plans,
the deposited sections and the deposited book of
reference:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted,
and be it enacted, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation. 1. This Act may be cited as the Anglian Water Authority
(King's Lynn Tidal Defences) Act 1984.
Interpretation. 2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
"the Act of 1965" means the Compulsory Purchase Act
1965
c. 56. 1965;
"the Authority" means the Anglian Water Authority;
"the conservancy board" means the King's Lynn
Conservancy Board;
"enactment" means an enactment in any Act, including
this Act, and in any order, byelaw, scheme or
regulation in force within the area of the Authority;
"the level of high water" means the level of mean high-
water springs;
Anglian
Water
Authority (King's Lynn Tidal c. xiv
Defences)
Act 1984 3
"tidal work" means so much of any work authorised by PART l
Part II of
this
Act as is on, under or over tidal waters —cont-
or tidal lands below the level of high water;
"the tribunal" means the Lands Tribunal;
"the Trinity House" means the Corporation of Trinity
House of Deptford Strond;
"the works" means Works Nos. 1 to 7 and any works
constructed in connection with those works, and
includes those works as enlarged, renewed or altered,
under subsection (2) of section 4 (Power to make
works) of this Act.
(2) References in this Act to reference points shall be
construed as references to National Grid reference points under
grid letters TF.
(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in
this Act to a work identified by the number of such work shall
be construed as a reference to the work of that number
authorised by this Act.
3.—(1)
The provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Application of
Act 1845 with respect to the temporary occupation of lands
enactments.
near the railway during the construction thereof are hereby1845 c- 20-
incorporated with this Act and, as so incorporated, shall have ywoe*^ [*^*
effect as if— l
(a) for the words "the period by the special Act limited for
the completion of the railway" there were substituted
the words "the period of five years from the
commencement respectively of the construction of
any of the works authorised by the special Act";
(b) the expression "the company" meant the Authority;
and
(c) the expression "the railway" meant the works
authorised by this Act and "the centre of the railway" ^,**4triy
meant the centre line of any such works respectively, fu^u-^ '!*(:
(2) {a)
PartloftheActof 1965 (except section 4, section 27, , . \[
and paragraph 3 (3) of Schedule 3 thereto), in so far as it is <^V ^° )
applicable for the purposes of this Act and is not inconsistent
with the provisions
thereof,
shall apply to the compulsory
acquisition of land under this Act as it applies to a compulsory
purchase to which Part II of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981
1981
c. 67.
applies and as if this Act were a compulsory purchase order
under the said Act of 1981.
{b) In section 11 (1) of the Act of 1965, as so applied, for the
words "fourteen days" there shall be substituted the words
three months".
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