PART 1

Preliminary

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Crossrail (Plumstead Sidings) Order 2015 and comes into force on 21st April 2015.

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 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980(3);

“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(4);

“address” includes any number or address used for the purposes of electronic transmission;

“authorised works” means the scheduled works and any other works authorised by this Order or any part of them;

“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;

“building” includes any structure or erection or any part of a building, structure or erection;

“Crossrail” has the same meaning as in the principal Act;

“carriageway” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;

“electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—

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

“the limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation for the scheduled works shown on the works and land plans;

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

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

“Network Rail” means Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (Company No. 02904587) whose registered office is at 1 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 2DN;

“the Order limits” means the limits of deviation and the limits of land to be acquired or used shown on the works and land plans;

“owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in section 7 (interpretation) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(5);

“the principal Act” means the Crossrail Act 2008;

“the promoter” means Crossrail Limited (Company No. 04212657) whose registered office is at 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5LQ;

“the scheduled works” means the works specified in Schedule 1 (scheduled works) 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 authority”, in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act;

“the tribunal” means the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal;

“watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, canals, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows, except a public sewer or drain; and

“the works and land plans” means the plans certified by the Secretary of State as the works and land plans for the purposes of this Order;

(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 above its surface.

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

(4) References in this Order to numbered plots are references to plot numbers on the works and land plans.

(5) All distances and directions stated in the description of the works are approximate, and distances between points on the scheduled works are taken to be measured along the scheduled works.