South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1990

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1990 c. xviii
Year1990
South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1990 c. xviii 1
ELIZABETH II
1990 CHAPTER xviii
An Act to empower the South Yorkshire Passenger
Transport Executive to construct certain works in
substitution for works authorised by the South
Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1988 and other
enactments; to confer further powers upon the
Executive, and for other purposes. [29th June 1990]
W-W 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) It is expedient that the Executive should be empowered to construct
the works authorised by this Act in substitution for
(a) works authorised by the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act
1988 affecting City Road in the City of Sheffield; and 1988 c. xxvii.
(b) a work authorised by the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act
1989 affecting land at Meadowhall, partly in the City of Sheffield 1989 c. xix.
and partly in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham:
(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:
2 c. xviii South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1990
1968 c. 73.
Short and
collective titles.
1988 c. xxvii.
1989 c. xix.
Interpretation.
(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 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:
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit
Act 1990.
(2) The South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1988, the South
Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1989 and this Act may be cited together
as the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Acts 1988 to 1990.
2.—(1) 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
"the Act of 1988" means the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act
1988;
"the Act of 1989" means the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act
1989;
"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 South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit
Acts 1988 to 1990, including the railways thereby designated as
tramways, 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 and, where on any existing route no such limits are shown,
the boundaries of the street (including any verge or roadside waste
adjoining it);
"the railways board" means the British Railways Board;
"tramway" means any railway, or any part of a railway, authorised by
the Act of 1988 or this Act and thereby designated as a tramway;

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