Great Central Railway Act 1903

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[3
EDW,
7.] Great Central Railway Act, 1903. [Ch. cell J
CHAPTER ccli.
An Act to authorise the construction of new railways
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and the acquisition of lands by the Great Central
Railway Company in connection with their undertaking
the construction of a new railway by the North Wales
and Liverpool Railway Committee or the Company in
connection with the undertaking of that committee the
diversion of footpaths by the Great Western and Great
Central Railways Joint Committee in connection with
their undertaking and for other purposes.
[14th August 1903.]
W
HEREAS it is expedient that the Great Central Railway
Company (hereinafter called " the Company") should be
authorised to construct the railways and other works hereinafter
descrihed in the west riding of the county of York and to acquire
by compulsion or agreement for the purposes of their under-
taking the lands hereinafter descrihed in the counties of London
Middlesex Lincoln Lancaster Chester Warwick and York (West
Riding) :
And whereas the North Wales and Liverpool Railway Com-
mittee were incorporated by the Manchester Sheffield and Lincoln-
shire Railway Act 1896 and were authorised to maintain and work
certain railways owned jointly by the Company and the Wrexham
Mold and Connah's Quay Railway Company :
And whereas it is expedient that further powers should be con-
ferred upon the North Wales and Liverpool Railway Committee or
the Company to construct the new railways and works hereinafter
described in the county of Chester:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the acquisition by
the Company who are shareholders of the Wigan Junction Railways
Company and work the railway of that company or by the Wigan
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A.D.
1903. Junction Railways Company (hereinafter referred to as " the
Wigan Company") of the additional lands and premises hereinafter
described for the purposes of the extension and improvement of the
undertaking of that company :
And whereas by the Great Western and Great Central Railway
Companies' Act 1899 the Great Western and Great Central Railways
Joint Committee (hereinafter called " the Joint Committee ") were
incorporated and were authorised to construct among other works
a line of railways from Princes Rdsborough to Grendon Underwood :
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Joint Committee
in connection with the construction of the said line of railways to
stop up and divert the footpaths in the counties of Buckingham and
Oxford as hereinafter provided:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the extension of time
for the compulsory purchase of lands and also for the construction
of works by the Company on various parts of their undertaking as
hereinafter provided :
And whereas the Company have been compelled to acquire and
they still hold considerable areas of land within which the railway
of the Company passes iu tunnel or covered way and it is expedient
that powers to the effect hereinafter set forth should be conferred
upon the Company of dealing with those portions of the said land
which are situate over the railway and it is expedient that the
Company should be empowered to lease or otherwise temporarily
deal with other lands of the Company which are not actually in use
but will ultimately be required for the purposes of the Company's
undertaking:
And whereas it is expedient to confer upon the Company the
other powers in this Act contained:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of
the works authorised by this Act and also books of reference thereto
containiug the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners
and lessees and of the occupiers of the lands required or which may
be taken for the purposes or under the powers of this Act and plans
of the other lands by this Act authorised to be taken compulsorily
with books of reference thereto were duly deposited with the respec-
tive clerks of the peace for the counties of Bucks Chester Lancaster
Lincoln (parts of Lindsey) London Middlesex Oxford Warwick and
the west riding of York and are hereinafter respectively referred to
as the deposited plans sections and books of reference:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
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May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted A.D. 1903,
and be it enacted by the King'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.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Great Central Railway Act Short title.
1903.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows : Division of
Part I.—Preliminary. Parts^0
Part II.—New railways additional lands &c.
Part III.—Extensions of time.
Part IV. —Miscellaneous.
3.
The Lands Clauses Acts the Railways Clauses Consolidation Incorpora-
Act 1845 and Part I. (relating to the construction of a railway) tioQof Acts'
and Part II. (relating to extension of time) of the Hallways Clauses
Act 1863 are (except where expressly varied by this Act)
incorporated with and form part of this Act.
4.
In this Act the several words and expressions to which Interpreta-
meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partly incorporated 10u"
herewith have the same respective meanings unless there be some-
thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction
And in this Act the expression
" The Company " means the Great Central Railway Company;
" The Joint Committee " means the Great Western and Great
Central Railways Joint Committee;
" The North Wales Committee " means the North Wales and
Liverpool Railway Committee ;
" The Wigan Company" means the Wigan Junction Railways
Company;
" The railways " mean the railways by this Act authorised;
" The Extension to London Act" means the Manchester
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Extension to London
&c.) Act 1893;
"The Act of 1898" means the Great Central Railway Act
1898;
" The Act of 1900" means the Great Central Railway Act
1900;
" The Act of 1901" means the Great Central Railway Act
1901.
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