The Network Rail (London to Corby) (Land Acquisition) Order 2020

PART 1PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Network Rail (London to Corby) (Land Acquisition) Order 2020 and comes into force on 2nd December 2020.

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 1981 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981(4);

“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(5);

“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(6);

“the 2003 Act” means the Communications Act 2003(7);

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

“authorised works” means the works or any part of the works for the alteration and improvement of the Midland Mainline railway between London and Corby comprising, in relation to each of the land parcels listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1 (authorised works), the works described in column 2 of that table authorised by the statutes specified in column 3 of that table;

“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;

“deposited plans” means the plans comprising sheets 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 certified by the Secretary of State as the deposited plans for the purposes of this Order;

“electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—

and in this definition “electronic communications network” has the same meaning as in section 32(1)(8) (meaning of electronic communications networks and services) of the 2003 Act;

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

“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 registration number 02904587) whose registered office is at 1 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 2DN;

“Order land” means the land shown on the deposited plans which is within the limits of land to be acquired or used and described in the book of reference;

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

“owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in section 7 (interpretation) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(9);

“statutory undertaker” means—

“street” includes part of a street;

“street authority”, in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part 3 (street works in England and Wales) of the 1991 Act; and

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

(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) References in this Order to numbered plots are references to plot numbers on the deposited plans.