British Railways Act 1987
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British Railways Act 1987 c. xxix 1
ELIZABETH II
1987 CHAPTER xxix
An Act to empower the British Railways Board to con-
struct works and to purchase or use land; to confer
further powers on the Board and on British Rail Pension
Trustee Company Limited and British Railways
Savings Company Limited; and for other purposes.
[17th December 1987]
W
HEREAS—
(1) By the Transport Act 1962 the British Railways Board (hereinafter 1962 c. 46.
referred to as "the Board") were established:
(2) It is the duty of the Board under the said Act of 1962 (inter alia) to
provide railway services in Great Britain and, in connection with the provision
of railway services, to provide such other services and facilities as appear
to
the
Board to be expedient, and to have due regard, as respects
all
those railway and
other services and facilities, to efficiency, economy and safety of operation:
(3) It is expedient that the Board should be empowered to construct the
works authorised by this Act and to purchase or use the land referred to in this
Act:
(4) It is expedient that the other powers in this Act contained should be
conferred on the Board as therein provided, and that the other provisions in
this Act contained should be enacted:
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British Railways Act 1987
(5) In exercise of powers under the British Railways (Pension Schemes) Act
1981 c. xv. 1981, British Rail Pension Trustee Company Limited (a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Board) was formed and there were transferred from
the
Board
to the said trustee company on 1st February 1982 all the property, rights and
liabilities of the Board as trustees of the pension schemes specified in the
Schedule to the said Act of 1981:
1968 c. 73. (6) In exercise of their powers under section
7
of the Transport Act
1968
the
Board made on 30th May 1985 the British Railways Savings Company
Scheme (which was confirmed by the Secretary of State on 7th June 1985 and
came into operation on 1st August 1985) and transferred to British Railways
Savings Company Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Board) on 1st
August 1985 all the property, rights and liabilities comprised in that part of the
Board's undertaking which immediately before that date consisted of the
British Railways Savings Bank:
(7) It is expedient that the powers in this Act contained should be conferred
on the said trustee company and on the said savings company as therein
provided:
(8) Plans and sections showing the lines or situations and levels of the works
to be constructed under this Act, and plans of the land authorised to be
purchased or used by this Act, and a book of reference to those plans contain-
ing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of
the occupiers of the said land were duly deposited in the office of the Qerk of
the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons and
with the proper officers of the county and metropolitan district councils of the
several counties and metropolitan districts within which the said works may
be constructed or the said land is situated, 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:
(9) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of
Parliament:
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:—
PART
I
PRELIMINARY
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the British Railways Act 1987.
Interpretation. 2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, words and
expressions to which meanings are assigned by the enactments incorporated
herewith have in relation to the related subject-matter the same respective
meanings; and
1845 c. 20. "the Act of 1845" means the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845;
1863 c. 92. "the Act of 1863" means the Railways Clauses Act 1863;
1965 c. 56. "the Act of 1965" means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965;
1981 c. xxxv. "the (No. 2) Act of 1981" means the British Railways (No. 2) Act 1981;
1984 c. xx. "the (No. 2) Act of 1984" means the British Railways (No. 2) Act 1984;
"the Board" means the British Railways Board;
"enactment" includes any order, byelaw, rule, regulation, scheme or
other instrument having effect by virtue of an enactment;
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