British Railways (No.2) Act 1986
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1986 c. xxvi |
| Year | 1986 |
British Railways
(No.
2)
Act
1986
c. xxvi 1
ELIZABETH II
1986 CHAPTER xxvi
An Act to empower the British Railways Board to
construct works and to purchase or use land; to confer
further powers on the Board; and for other purposes.
[18th December 1986]
V¥7-HEREAS—
(1) By the Transport Act 1962 the British Railways Board
1962
c.
46.
(hereinafter 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:
c. xxvi British Railways (No. 2) Act 1986
(4) In the interests of efficiency, economy and safety of
operation the Board are undertaking a programme of
electrification works on the East Coast Main Line and it is
accordingly expedient that they should be empowered to
construct the East Coast Main Line bridge works authorised
by
this Act and to purchase or use land referred to in this Act-
(5) 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:
(6) 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 such plans containing 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
Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of
the
House of Commons and with the proper officers of the county
councils of the several counties within which the said
works will
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:
(7) 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
(No.
2)
Act
1986.
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—
"the Act of 1845" means the Railways Clauses
1845 c. 20. Consolidation Act 1845;
1863
c. 92. "the Act of 1863" means the Railways Clauses Act 1863;
British Railways (No. 2) Act 1986 c. xxvi 3
"the Act of 1965" means the Compulsory Purchase Act PART I
1965;
—com.
"the (No. 2) Act of 1981" means the British Railways !*" c- 56"
(No.
2) Act 1981; 1981c. xxxv.
"the (No. 2) Act of 1984" means the British Railways
(No.
2) Act 1984; 1984 c. xx.
"the Board" means the British Railways Board;
"East Coast Main Line" means the railway between King's
Cross station, London, and Edinburgh with the
branch to Leeds;
"enactment" includes any order, byelaw, rule, regulation,
scheme or other instrument having effect by virtue of
an enactment;
"the limits of deviation" means the limits of deviation
shown on the deposited plans;
"reference point" means Ordnance Survey National Grid
reference point;
"the specified enactments" means the Highway (Railway
Crossings) Act 1839, section 9 of the Railway
1839
c.
45.
Regulation Act 1842, section 47 of the Act of 1845,1842 c. 55.
sections 5, 6 and 7 of the Act of 1863 and any other
provision to the same or similar effect incorporated
with, or contained in, any enactment;
"traffic sign" has the meaning assigned to it by section-64
of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and section 1984
c.
27.
65j(l) of that Act shall have effect with respect to the
' erection and display of any traffic sign by the Board as
if it were a traffic sign erected and displayed by a
highway authority; v^
"the tribunal" means the Lands Tribunal; and
"the works" means the works authorised by Parts 11
(Works, etc.) and III (East Coast Main Line bridges) of
this Act.
(2) All directions, distances and lengths stated in any
description of works, powers or lands shall be construed as if the
words "or thereabouts" were inserted after each such direction,
distance and length and distances between points on a railway
shall be taken to be measured along the railway.
(3) Any reference in this Act to a work identified by the
number of such work shall be construed as a reference to the
work of that number authorised by this Act.
(4) References in this Act to points identified by letters shall
be construed as references to the points so lettered on the
deposited plans.
3.—(1)
The following enactments, so far as the same are Incorporation
applicable for the purposes of and are not inconsistent with this of
general
Act, are incorporated with this Act, and this Act shall be the enactments-
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