River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1990 c. xix |
River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act 1990 c. xix 1
ELIZABETH II
1990 CHAPTER xix
An Act to empower the Teesside Development
Corporation to construct a barrage in and across the
river Tees; to construct a road bridge and footbridge
over the river Tees; and in connection therewith to
execute other works and to acquire lands; to provide
for the control and development of part of the river
Tees for amenity and recreation; and for other
purposes. [26th July 1990]
^TTTHEREAS-
(1) Under the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 the 1980
c.
65.
Teesside Development Corporation (in this Act called "the Corporation")
was established by the Teesside Development Corporation (Area and
Constitution) Order 1987 as the urban development corporation for an S.I. 1987/923.
area of about 4,565 hectares in the county of Cleveland for the purpose of
securing the regeneration of its area:
(2) It is the view of the Corporation that the works authorised and the
powers conferred by this Act will advance the securing of such regeneration:
(3) It is accordingly expedient that the Corporation should be
empowered
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(a) to construct, maintain and operate in and across the river Tees a
barrage, with movable gates and a lock and lock gates together
with a footway and associated works including a canoe slalom
course;
(b) to construct a road bridge over the river Tees together with
associated road works; and
(c) to construct a footbridge over the river Tees;
and to provide the further works authorised by this Act, and to acquire
lands therefor, so as to secure the development and the improvement both
of the amenities of the locality and the recreational use of the river Tees
and of the lands adjacent thereto:
(4) It is expedient that provision should be made for the maintenance
of the level of the river Tees upstream of the barrage and for the control
and development of the river:
(5) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in this Act be
enacted:
(6) The objects of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of
Parliament:
(7) Plans and sections showing the lines, situations and the levels of the
works authorised 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 lands which may be acquired or used
compulsorily under the powers of this Act, 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 Cleveland County Council,
which plans, sections and book of reference are in this Act respectively
referred to as the deposited plans, the deposited sections and the deposited
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:
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PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the River Tees Barrage and Crossing Act
1990.
Interpretation. 2.—(1) In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise requires
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1965 c. 56. "the Act of 1965" means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965;
"the barrage" means the barrage forming part of Work No. 1;
"the barrage works" means Works Nos.
1
to 5;
"the borough" means the borough of Stockton-on-Tees;
"the borough council" means the Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council;
"the bridge works" means Works Nos. 6 to 10 and the footbridge
forming Work No. 11;
"the Corporation" means the Teesside Development Corporation;
"the level of high water" means the level of mean high-water springs;
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"the limits of deviation" means the limits of deviation shown on the PART
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deposited plans; —com.
"new rights" means rights to be created in favour of the Corporation,
including rights restrictive of the user of land;
"the port authority" means the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority;
"reference point" means Ordnance Survey National Grid Reference
Point;
"the river" means the river Tees;
"the rivers authority" means the National Rivers Authority;
"tidal works" means so much of
the
works as is on, under or over tidal
waters or tidal lands below the level of high water;
"the tribunal" means the Lands Tribunal;
"Trinity House" means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford
Strond;
"the upstream river" has the meaning given by subsection (2) below;
"vessel" means every description of vessel, whether with or without
means of propulsion of any kind, and includes anything
constructed or used to carry persons, goods, plant or machinery,
or to be propelled or moved, on or by water, a seaplane on or in
the water and a hovercraft within the meaning of the Hovercraft
Act 1968; 1968 c. 59.
"water company" means Northumbrian Water Limited; and
"the works" means the works authorised by this Act.
(2) "The upstream river" means the area of water coloured pink on sheet
numbers 6 and 7 of the deposited plans, together with
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(a) an area of the river extending for 100 metres downstream of the
said area coloured pink;
(b) such widening or lateral extension of the said area coloured pink
as may be created or formed from time to time along the banks
of the river; and
(c) any such canals, cuts, inlets, lakes, pools or other watercourses as
may be constructed or provided on the Teesdale site and are
connected, whether immediately or otherwise, with the said area
coloured pink.
(3) In subsection (2) (c) above "the Teesdale site" means the area of land
in the borough known as the Teesdale site, being the land shown edged red
on the plan signed in triplicate by the Rt. Hon. the Lord Aberdare, K.B.E.,
the Chairman of the Committee of the House of Lords to whom the Bill
for this Act was referred, one copy of which has been deposited in each of
the following offices:
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(a) the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments;
(b) the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons; and
(c) the office of the Chief Executive of the Corporation.
(4) All directions, distances and reference points stated in any description
of works, powers or lands shall be construed as if the words "or thereabouts"
were inserted after such direction, distance and reference point.
(5) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a work
identified by a number of such work shall be construed as a reference to
the work of that number authorised by this Act.
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