British Railways Act 1990
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British Railways Act 1990 c. xxv 1
ELIZABETH II
1990 CHAPTER xxv
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. [26th July 1990]
MJK 7HEREAS-
(1) By the Transport Act 1962 the British Railways Board (hereinafter 1962 c. 46.
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 councils of the
London boroughs and the several counties and metropolitan districts within
which the said works may 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:
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PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the British Railways Act 1990.
Interpretation. 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
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"the Act of 1845" means the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act
1845 c. 20. 1845;
1863 c. 92. "the Act of 1863" means the Railways Clauses Act 1863;
1965 c. 56. "the Act of 1965" means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965;
"the (No. 2) Act of 1981" means the British Railways (No. 2) Act
1981c. xxxv. 1981;
"the (No. 2) Act of 1984" means the British Railways (No. 2) Act
1984 c. xx. 1984;
1987 c. xxix. "the Act of 1987" means the British Railways Act 1987;
"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;
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