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The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway Order 2005

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PART 1Preliminary

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway Order 2005 and shall come into force on 11th January 2006.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1961 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961(1);

“the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965(2);

“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(3);

“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(4);

“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(5);

“the 1992 Act” means the Transport and Works Act 1992;

“authorised guided busway” means any guided busway authorised by this Order;

“authorised works” means the scheduled works and any other works authorised by this Order;

“the book of reference” means the book of reference certified by the Secretary of State as the book of reference for the purposes of this Order;

“the busway system” has the meaning given to it in article 34(1) and includes the authorised guided busway and other authorised works;

“carriageway” has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980(6);

“cycletrack” means a way over which the public have a right of way on pedal cycles (other than pedal cycles which are motor vehicles within the meaning of the Road Traffic Act 1988(7) with a right of way on foot;

“guided busway” means a way provided for the use of vehicles which are constructed or adapted to carry more than eight passengers for hire or reward and use a mode prescribed in article 2(e), (f), (g) or (h) of the Transport and Works (Guided Transport Modes) Order 1992(8);

“highway” and “highway authority” have the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980;

“the limits of additional land to be acquired or used” means the limits of additional land to be acquired or used shown on the plans;

“the limits of deviation” means the limits of lateral deviation for the scheduled works mentioned in article 5(1)(a) and (2);

“maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct and replace and “maintenance” shall be construed accordingly;

“Network Rail” means Network Rail Infrastructure Limited;

“Order limits” means the limits of deviation and the limits of additional land to be acquired or used;

“owner”, in relation to land, means a person, other than a mortgagee not in possession, who is for the time being entitled to dispose of the fee simple of land (whether in possession or reversion) and includes a person holding, or entitled to the rents and profits of, the land under a lease or tenancy having an unexpired term exceeding 3 years;

“the plans” means the plans prepared in pursuance of rule 12(1) and (5) of the Transport and Works (Applications and Objections Procedure) (England and Wales) Rules 2000 and certified by the Secretary of State as the plans for the purposes of this Order and references to land shown on those plans are references to land so shown in pursuance of rule 12(5);

“public communications provider” has the same meaning as in section 151(1) of the Communications Act 2003(9);

“rights of way maps” means the maps certified by the Secretary of State as the rights of way maps for the purposes of this Order;

“the scheduled works” means the works specified in Schedule 1 to this Order or any part of them;

“the sections” means the sections certified by the Secretary of State as the sections for the purposes of this Order;

“street” includes part of a street;

“street authority”, in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part III of the 1991 Act;

“the tribunal” means the Lands Tribunal;

“the undertaker” means Cambridgeshire County Council.

(2) References in this Order to rights over land include references to rights to do, or to place and maintain, anything in on or under land or in the airspace over its surface and references to the subsoil of any land include references to any cellar, basement, vault, arch or other construction forming part of any such land.

(3) In the case of any street in relation to which an order made under section 249(2) of the 1990 Act (a pedestrian planning order) is in force, the kerb-line of the street, where there is no kerb, shall be taken to be the edge of the part of the street on which the passage of vehicles is permitted.

(4) Any reference in this Order to a work identified by the number of the work shall be construed as a reference to the work of that number authorised by this Order.

(5) References in this Order to points identified by letters, with or without numbers, shall be construed as references to the points so marked on the plans.

(6) All distances, directions, areas, lengths and points stated in the description of the scheduled works or in any description of powers or lands shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each such distance, direction, area, length and point, and distances between points on the authorised guided busway shall be taken to be measured along the centre line of the busway.

Application of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991

3.—(1) The authorised guided busway shall be regarded as a tramway undertaking for the purposes of the application of Part III of the 1991 Act (street works) to it, and accordingly, the provisions of that Part relating to tramway undertakings and tramways shall apply to the authorised guided busway.

(2) Section 56 (directions as to timing) and section 58 (restrictions following substantial road works) of the 1991 Act shall not apply in relation to any works executed under the power of this Order.

(3) The provisions of the 1991 Act mentioned in paragraph (4) which together with other provisions of that Act apply in relation to the execution of street works and any regulations made or code of practice issued or approved under those provisions, shall apply (with the necessary modifications) in relation to the stopping-up, alteration or diversion of a street by the undertaker under the powers conferred by this Order whether or not the stopping up, alteration or diversion constitutes street works within the meaning of that Act.

(4) The provisions of the 1991 Act referred to in paragraph (3) are—

  • section 54 (advance notice of certain works);

  • section 55 (notice of starting date of works);

  • section 57 (notice of emergency works);

  • section 59 (general duty of street authority to co-ordinate works);

  • section 60 (general duty of undertakers to co-operate);

  • section 68 (facilities to be afforded to street authority);

  • section 69 (works likely to affect other apparatus in the street);

  • section 75 (inspection fees);

  • section 76 (liability for cost of temporary traffic regulation);

  • section 77 (liability for cost of use of alternative route); and

  • all such other provisions as apply for the purposes of the provisions mentioned above.

(5) Nothing in article 11 of this Order shall—

(a)prejudice the operation of section 87 of the 1991 Act (prospectively maintainable highways); and the undertaker shall not by reason of any duty under that article to maintain a street be taken to be the street authority in relation to that street for the purposes of Part III of that Act;

(b)have effect in relation to street works as respects which the provisions of Part III of the 1991 Act apply.

(8)

S.I. 1992/3231 as amended by S.I. 1997/1951.

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