British Railways (No.2) Act 1975
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1975 c. xxix |
British Railways
(No.
2) Act
1975
c. xxix
ELIZABETH H
1975 CHAPTER xxix
An Act to empower the British Railways Board to
construct works and to acquire lands; to confer further
powers on the Board and the Trinity House; and for
other purposes. [7th August 1975]
W
HEREAS by the Transport Act 1962 the British Railways
1962
c.
46.
Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") were
established:
And whereas it is the duty of the Board under the Transport
Act 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:
And
whereas it
is
expedient that the Board should be empowered
to construct the works authorised by this Act and to acquire the
lands referred to in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the other powers in this Act
contained should be conferred upon the Board and the Trinity
House as herein provided and that the other provisions in this
Act contained should be enacted:
2 c. xxix
British Railways
(No.
2) Act
1975
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines or situations
and levels of
the
works to be constructed under the powers of
this
Act, and plans of the lands authorised to be acquired 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 lands 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
county councils of the several counties within which the said works
will be constructed or the said lands are 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:
And whereas during the progress of the Bill for this Act an
alteration has been made in Work No. 3 authorised by this Act
and a plan and section of the said work as so altered, on the same
scale and containing the same particulars as the original plan
and section of
the
said work, together with a book of reference to
the said plan, have been deposited in the office of the Clerk of the
Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office, House of Commons,
and with the proper officer of the county council of Nottingham-
shire, which plan, section and book of reference are respectively
referred to in this Act as the substituted plan, the substituted
section and the substituted book of reference:
And whereas 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
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the British Railways (No. 2) Act
1975.
2.
This Act
is
divided into Parts
as
follows :—
Part
I
—Preliminary.
Part II—Works.
Part III—Lands.
Part IV—Harbour byelaws.
Part V—Protective provisions.
Part VI—Miscellaneous.
Division of
Act into
Parts.
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