South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1989
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1989 c. xix |
South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1989 c. xix J
ELIZABETH II
1989 CHAPTER xix
An Act to empower the South Yorkshire Passenger
Transport Executive to construct additional works for
the extension of their LRT system in the Lower Don
Valley in the City of Sheffield and the Metropolitan
Borough of Rotherham and to acquire lands for that
purpose; to confer further powers upon the Executive;
and for other purposes. [21st December 1989]
IT 7HEREAS—
(1) Under the Transport Acts 1968 and 1985 it is the general duty of the
South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (hereinafter called "the
Executive") to secure the provision of public passenger transport services for
meeting the public transport requirements of their area in accordance with
general policies formulated by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport
Authority:
(2) [t is expedient that the Executive should be empowered to construct the
works authorised by this Act, and to acquire or use the lands referred to in this
Act, for the extension of
the
light rail transit system for the City of Sheffield
authorised by the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1988 by the addition 1988 c. xxvii.
to that system of a route in the Lower Don Valley between Park Square and
Meadowhall in the City, passing through part of
the
Metropolitan Borough of
Rotherham:
2 c. xix South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1989
(3) It is expedient that the other powers of this Act should be conferred
upon the Executive and that the other provisions in this Act should be enacted:
(4) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of
Parliament:
(5) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the requirements of
1968 c. 73. section 10 (1) (xxix) of the Transport Act 1968 have been observed:
(6) 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 Sheffield City Council and the
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, 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":
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:—
PARTI
PRELIMINARY
Short litle. 1. This Act may be cited as the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act
1989.
Interpretation. 2.—(I) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, words and
expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partly
incorporated with this Act have the same respective meanings; and—
iy88 c. xxni. "the Act or 1988" means the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act
1988;
"the authorised works" means the works authorised by this Act;
"existing" means existing at the commencement of this Act:
"the LRT system" means the light rail transit system comprising the
railways authorised by the Act of 1988 and this Act, including the
railways designated as tramways in the Act of 1988, and all works
and conveniences provided in connection with any such railways as
constructed, extended or altered from time to time;
"the limits of deviation" means the limits so shown on the deposited
plans:
, "the railways board" means the British Railways Board;
and the following expressions have the same meanings as in the Act of 1988:—
"electric line";
"enactment";
"the Executive":
"land";
"street";
"traffic sign";
"tramway".
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