Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Act 1991
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Killingholme Generating Stations
(Ancillary Powers) Act 1991
1991 CHAPTER viii
An Act to confer powers upon National Power PLC and PowerGen plc for the
construction of ancillary works in connection with proposed generating stations at
Killingholme and for the acquisition of lands and easements or rights for the purposes
thereof; and for other purposes. [27th June 1991]
Whereas National Power PLC and PowerGen plc (hereinafter referred to as “the two
companies”) are companies formed and registered under the Companies Act 1985 and, having
been nominated by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 66 (1) of the Electricity
Act 1989, have been designated as generating companies:
And whereas by virtue of a scheme made by the Central Electricity Generating Board under
the said section 66 (1) certain property of the Board has become vested in the two companies,
including an area of land in the parish of North Killingholme in the borough of Glanford in the
county of Humberside which has been divided between the two companies:
And whereas to meet requirements for the supply of electricity each of the two companies
proposes to construct on the lands vested in that company a gas turbine generating station:
And whereas in operating each of the said generating stations quantities of water will be required
for cooling purposes and the most convenient and economical method of obtaining the water
will be to abstract it from and subsequently to discharge it into the river Humber:
And whereas it is expedient that each of the two companies should be empowered to acquire
lands and easements or rights for the purpose of the construction of the works necessary for the
abstraction of water from the river Humber and the subsequent discharge of water into the said
river from each of the said generating stations as aforesaid and for other purposes connected
therewith:
And whereas it is expedient that the other powers contained in this Act should be conferred on
the two companies:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions contained in this Act should be enacted:
2Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Act 1991 (c. 8)
Part I – Preliminary
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And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of the works by this Act authorised,
such plans showing also the lands which may be acquired or used compulsorily under the powers
of this Act for or in connection with the said works and the other purposes mentioned in this Act,
together with a book of reference to the said plans containing the names of the owners or reputed
owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and of the occupiers of all such lands, and describing the
same, have been deposited with the proper officer of the Humberside County Council and such
plans, sections and book of reference are respectively referred to in this Act as the deposited
plans, sections and book of reference:
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
(that is to say):—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers)
Act 1991.
2 Incorporation of Acts
(1) Section 16 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, and the provisions of
that Act with respect to the temporary occupation of lands near the railway during
the construction thereof are hereby incorporated with this Act and, as so incorporated,
shall have effect as if—
(a) for the words “the period by the special Act limited for the completion of
the railway” there were substituted the words “the period of eight years from
the commencement of the construction of any of the works authorised by the
special Act”;
(b) the expression“the company” meant National Power and PowerGen or either
of them; and
(c) the expression“the railway” meant the National Power works or the PowerGen
works, as the case may be, and“the centre of the railway” meant the centre of
any such works respectively.
(2) (a)
Part I of the Act of 1965 (except sections 4 and 27 and paragraph 3 (3) of Schedule 3
thereto), in so far as it is applicable for the purposes of this Act and is not inconsistent
with the provisions thereof, shall apply to the compulsory acquisition of land under
this Act as it applies to a compulsory purchase to which Part II of the Acquisition of
Land Act 1981 applies and as if this Act were a compulsory purchase order under the
said Act of 1981.
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