Forth Crossing Act 2011

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Jurisdiction	Scotland
Citation	2011 asp 2

carry out the principal works, being the works set out in schedule 1 for the construction of a new bridge over the Firth of Forth (“the Forth Crossing”) and for the construction or improvement of associated roads and structures, andsuch works of the type described in schedule 2, andsuch

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Forth Crossing Act 2011
Part 1: Works

1: Power to construct Forth Crossing etc.

2: Bridge proportions: Ministers, when carrying out or maintaining the principal works, must ensure—

3: Maximum construction height
4: Limits of deviation etc.

5: Bridge marking and lighting

6: Interference with navigation

7: Dredging etc.

8: Marine (Scotland) Act 2010
9: Interference with railways: Ministers must—

10: Trees and shrubs

Part 2: Roads

11: Special roads

12: Trunk roads

13: Roads to be transferred to local roads authorities

14: Stopping up of roads

15: Stopping up of means of access

16: Extinction of rights of way
17: Solum of stopped up road

18: Works in roads where Ministers are not the roads authority

19: Access to public roads

20: Application of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984

Part 3: Land

21: Incorporation of enactments

22: Compulsory acquisition of land: Ministers may acquire compulsorily any land—

23: Acquisition of land by agreement

24: Acquisition of servitudes and other rights

25: Extinction of real burdens and servitudes etc.: Where Ministers acquire land compulsorily under section 22 (and section 24 does not apply)—

26: Persons under a disability may grant servitudes, etc.
27: Registration of servitudes and other rights

28: Minerals: Any conveyance transferring land to Ministers in pursuance of a compulsory acquisition under section 22 is deemed to except all mines of coal, ironstone, slate, or other minerals under the land other than—

29: Time limit for compulsory acquisition

Part 4: Taking title to land

Notice to treat procedure

30: Service of a notice to treat
31: Partial acquisitions using notice to treat procedure
32: Severance disputes (notice to treat procedure): Lands Tribunal
33: Severance of agricultural land
34: Notice to treat: time limit

General vesting declarations

35: General vesting declarations
36: Duty to publicise general vesting declarations

Part 5: Powers to enter and use land

37: Temporary possession of land

38: Power to enter land for other purposes: Ministers may, for any purposes connected with this Act, enter any land in order to—

39: Advance entry on land to be acquired: Ministers may enter and take possession of any land (or any part of any land) in respect of which—

40: Notice of entry

41: Use of land

42: Duty to remedy damage etc.

43: No power to enter homes
44: Warrants authorising entry

45: Obstruction

46: Suspension of real burdens and servitudes etc.

Part 6: Compensation

47: Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963: The application of the 1963 Act to the compulsory acquisition of land under section 22 is subject to the following modifications—

48: Matters to be considered when assessing compensation: In assessing the compensation payable in respect of the compulsory acquisition of land under section 22, the Lands Tribunal must—

49: Matters to be ignored when assessing compensation

50: Compensation: partial acquisition etc.

51: Compensation: servitudes and other rights

52: Compensation: cutting down or lopping, or cutting back roots of, trees or shrubs

53: Compensation: stopping up

54: Compensation: entering and using land temporarily

55: Compensation: advance entry

56: Compensation where notice to treat becomes invalid

Part 7: Statutory undertakers

57: Apparatus affected by works

58: Works for roads purposes: For the purposes of sections 142 to 144 of the 1991 Act—

59: Compensation for removal of water, gas, electricity or communications apparatus

60: Compensation for removal of public sewer

61: Apparatus in stopped up roads

Part 8: Planning permission, listed buildings and conservation areas

62: Planning permission

63: Relaxation of listed building controls

64: Demolition in conservation areas: Section 66 of the Listed Buildings Act does not apply to the demolition in pursuance of this Act of a building which—

65: Interpretation of Part 8

Part 9: Environmental matters

66: Mitigation of environmental impact
67: Compliance with code of construction practice and noise and vibration policy: Ministers must do everything which is reasonably practicable in order to ensure that the Forth Crossing works—

68: Amendment of code of construction practice and noise and vibration policy

69: Protection of water environment
70: Control of noise: Control of Pollution Act 1974

71: Statutory nuisance: noise under the Environmental Protection Act 1990

Part 10: Miscellaneous

72: Blighted land
73: Certification of Parliamentary plans, etc.

74: Changes to Parliamentary plans or book of reference

75: Provision of information on the progress of the Forth Crossing works

76: Formal communications

77: Ancillary provision

78: Crown application

79: Interpretation

80: Commencement

81: Short title
SCHEDULE 1 (introduced by section 1)
Principal works

SCHEDULE 2 (introduced by section 1)
Ancillary works

SCHEDULE 3 (introduced by section 11)
Special roads
SCHEDULE 4 (introduced by section 12(1))
Proposed trunk roads
SCHEDULE 5 (introduced by section 12(2))
Existing roads to become trunk roads on date determined by Ministers
SCHEDULE 6 (introduced by section 13)
Roads to be transferred to local roads authorities
SCHEDULE 7 (introduced by section 14)
Roads to be stopped up

Part 1: Stopped up roads for which no substitute is listed
Part 2: Stopped up roads for which substitute roads are listed

SCHEDULE 8 (introduced by section 15)
Means of access to be stopped up

Part 1: Means of access for which no substitute is listed
Part 2: Means of access for which a substitute is listed

SCHEDULE 9 (introduced by section 22)
Land which may be acquired

Part 1: Acquisition of land
Part 2: Acquisition of rights

SCHEDULE 10 (introduced by section 37)
Temporary possession of land
SCHEDULE 11 (introduced by section 63(5))
Listed buildings: authorised works

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