British Railways Act 1986
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1986 c. iii |
| Year | 1986 |
British Railways Act 1986
ELIZABETH n
1986 CHAPTER iii
An Act to empower the British Railways Board to
construct works and to purchase or use land; to extend
the
time for the compulsory purchase of certain land; to
confer further powers on the Board; and for other
purposes. [ 17th February 1986]
VVfHEREAS—
(1) By the Transport Act 1962 the British Railways Board
1962
c.
46.
(hereinafter referred to as "the Board") were established:
(2) It is the duty of the Board under the said Act of 1962
(inter alia) to provide railway services in Great Britain and, in
connection with the provision of railway services, to provide
such other services and facilities as appear to the Board to be
expedient, and to have due regard, as respects all those railway
and other services and facilities, to efficiency, economy and
safety of operation:
(3) It is expedient that the Board should be empowered to
construct the works authorised by this Act and to purchase or
use
the land referred to in this Act:
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(4) It is expedient that the period now limited for the
compulsory purchase of certain land should be extended as
provided by this Act:
(5) It is expedient that the other powers in this Act contained
should be conferred on the Board as therein provided, and that
the other provisions in this Act contained should be enacted:
(6) Plans and sections showing the lines or situations and
levels of the works to be constructed under this Act, and plans
of the land authorised to be purchased or used 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 said land were duly deposited in the office of the
Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of
the
House of Commons and with the proper officers of the Greater
London Council and of the county councils of the several
counties within which the said works will be constructed or
the
said land is situated, which plans, sections and book of
reference are respectively referred to in this Act as the deposited
plans,
the deposited sections and the deposited book of
reference:
(7) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
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
1.
This Act may be cited as the British Railways Act 1986.
2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
words and expressions to which meanings are assigned by the
enactments incorporated herewith have in relation to the
related subject-matter the same respective meanings; and—
"the Act of 1845" means the Railways Clauses Consoli-
dation Act 1845;
"the Act of 1863" means the Railways Clauses Act 1863;
"the Act of 1965" means the Compulsory Purchase Act
1965;
"the Act of 1981" means the British Railways Act 1981;
Interpretation.
1845 c. 20.
1863 c. 92.
1965 c. 56.
1981 c. xxiii.
British Railways Act 1986 c. iii 3
"the (No. 2) Act of 1981" means the British Railways PART I
(No.
2) Act 1981; —cont.
"the (No. 2) Act of 1984" means the British Railways 1981 c" xxxv'
(No.
2) Act 1984; 1984 c xx
"the Board" means the British Railways Board;
"enactment" includes any order, byelaw, rule, regulation,
scheme or other instrument having effect by virtue of*
an enactment;
"the limits of deviation" means the limits of deviation
shown on the deposited plans;
"reference point" means Ordnance Survey National Grid
reference point;
"the specified enactments" means the Highway (Railway
Crossings) Act 1839, section 9 of the Railway
1839
c. 45.
Regulation Act 1842, section 47 of the Act of 1845,1842 c. 55.
sections 5, 6 and 7 of the Act of 1863 and any other
provision to the same or similar effect incorporated
with, or contained in, any enactment;
"traffic sign" has the meaning assigned to it by section 64
of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984; 1984 c. 27.
"the tribunal" means the Lands Tribunal; and
"the works" means the works authorised by Part II
(Works, etc.) of this Act.
(2) Except in relation to subsection (3) (a) of section 13
(Reconstruction of bridge at Basingstoke) and subsection (3) (a)
of section 14 (Reconstruction of bridges at Wandsworth) of
this Act, all directions, distances and lengths stated in any
description of works, powers or lands shall be construed
as
if the
words "or thereabouts" were inserted after each such direction,
distance and length and distances between points on a railway
shall be taken to be measured along the railway.
(3) 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 following enactments, so far as the same are incorporation
applicable for the purposes of and are not inconsistent with this °; s?tn^™ts
Act, are incorporated with this Act, and this Act shall be the
special Act for the purposes of the said incorporated
enactments:— ——-> ^-,
(ff the Act of 1845Jexcept sections 1, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15,
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thereof;
and
(b) in(thTActofl 863 JPart I (relating to the construction
Of>-railw^yt-^cept sections 13 to 19
thereof,
and
jPart II (relating to extension of time).
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