British Railways (Stanstead) Act 1987
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1987 c. xiii |
British Railways (Stansted) Act 1987
ELIZABETH II
1987 CHAPTER xiii
An Act to empower the British Railways Board to
construct works and to purchase or use land in the
district of Uttlesford in the county of Essex; to confer
further powers on the Board; and for other purposes.
[15th May 1987]
YI/'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) By reason of the proposed development and expansion of
Stansted airport by the British Airports Authority it is
expedient that the Board should be empowered to construct the
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works authorised by this Act and to purchase or use the land
referred to in this Act so as to provide improved services and
facilities for railway passengers travelling to or from the said
airport:
(4) It is further 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:
(5) 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 Chief Executive and Clerk of
the Essex County 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:
(6) 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 (Stansted)
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—
"the Act of 1845" means the Railways Clauses Consoli-
1845
c.
20. dation Act 1845;
"the Act of 1965" means the Compulsory Purchase Act
1965
c. 56. 1965;
"the (No. 2) Act of 1981" means the British Railways
1981
c.
xxxv.
(No. 2) Act 1981;
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