British Railways Order Confirmation Act 1976
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1976 c. i |
| Year | 1976 |
British Railways Order
Confirmation Act 1976
CHAPTER i
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1.
Confirmation of Order in schedule.
2.
Short title.
SCHEDULE
BRITISH
RAILWAYS
PART
I
PRELIMINARY
1.
Short title.
2.
Division of Order into Parts.
3.
Interpretation.
4.
Incorporation of general Acts.
PART
II
WORKS
5.
Power to make works.
6. Power to deviate.
7.
General provisions as to construction of underground
railways.
8. Provisions as to use of electrical power.
9. Power to open surface of highways.
10.
Temporary stoppage of highways.
11.
Repair of roads and footpaths.
12.
Underpinning of houses near works.
13.
Use of
sewers,
etc., for removing water.
14.
Agreements with Passenger Transport Executive.
c. i
British Railways Order Confirmation
Act
1976
PART III
LANDS
Section
15.
Power to acquire lands.
16.
Period for compulsory acquisition of
lands
and servitudes.
17.
Correction of errors in deposited plans and book of
reference.
18.
Power to acquire only subsoil or servitudes in certain cases.
19.
Only
subsoil or servitudes
to be
acquired under certain
lands.
20.
Grant of servitudes by persons under disability.
21.
Acquisition of part only of certain properties.
22.
Disregard of recent improvements and interests.
23.
Power to enter, survey, etc., lands.
24.
Further powers of entry.
25.
Extinction of private rights of way.
26.
As to cellars under streets not referenced.
PART TV
MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
27.
As to certain level crossings.
28.
Confirmation of agreement with Leven Town Council.
29.
As to highways and road traffic, etc.
30.
For further protection of local authorities.
31.
For protection of
sewers
of Strathclyde Regional Council.
32.
For protection of Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport
Executive.
33.
For protection of certain statutory undertakers.
34.
For protection of Post Office.
35.
Crown rights.
36.
Saving for Town and Country Planning (Scotland)
Act 1972.
37.
Arbitration.
38.
Costs of Order.
SCHEDULES:
Schedule 1—
Parti.
Part II.
Schedule 2—Lands referred to in subsection (2) of
section 15 (Power to acquire lands) of tins Order.
Schedule 3—Lands referred to in section
19
(Only subsoil
or servitudes to be acquired under certain lands) of
this Order.
Schedule 4—Level crossings.
Schedule 5—Scheduled agreement.
British Railways Order Confirmation
Act
1976
c.
i 1
ELIZABETH H
1976 CHAPTER i
An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private
Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936, relating to
British Railways. [4th March 1976]
W
HEREAS
the
Provisional Order
set
forth
in the
schedule
hereunto annexed
has
been made
by the
Secretary
of
State under
the
provisions
of the
Private Legislation
Procedure (Scotland)
Act
1936,
and it is
requisite that
the
said
1936
c.
52.
Order should be confirmed
by
Parliament:
Be
it
therefore 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:—
1.
The
Provisional Order contained
in the
schedule hereunto Confirmation
annexed
is
hereby confirmed.
of
0rder
in
schedule.
2.
This
Act may be
cited
as the
British Railways Order Short title
Confirmation Act 1976.
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