The London Underground (Bank Station Capacity Upgrade) Order 2015

Interpretation

2.  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 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980(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 2004 Act” means the Traffic Management Act 2004(7);

“the access to works and permanent stopping up of streets plan” means the plan certified by the Secretary of State as the access to works and permanent stopping up of streets plan for the purposes of this Order;

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

“authorised railway” means the railway forming part of the authorised works;

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

“Bank station” means the Bank Monument Station Complex comprising Bank and Monument London Underground stations which serve the Company’s District, Circle, Waterloo & City, Central and Northern Lines and Bank station serving the Docklands Light Railway including all platforms, subways, passages, ticket halls and station entrances and exits serving those stations;

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

“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;

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

“the Company” means London Underground Limited (Company registration number 01900907) whose registered office is Windsor House, 42-50 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0TL;

“electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—

(a)

by means of an electronic communications network; or

(b)

by other means but while in electronic form;

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

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

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

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

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

“the Order limits” means the limits of land to be acquired or used shown on the land plan and described in the book of reference;

“owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(8);

“pile interception works” means works to remove, modify, reconstruct, alter, replace or interfere with piles, caissons, foundations and other subterranean structures which may otherwise obstruct or interfere with the construction of Works Nos.1, 4, or 19;

“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” includes part of a street;

“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 plans” means the plans certified by the Secretary of State as the works 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 air-space above its surface.

(3) All distances, directions and lengths stated in the description of the scheduled works or in any description of powers or lands are approximate, and distances between points on a scheduled work are taken to be measured along the scheduled work.

(1)

1961 c. 33.

(2)

1965 c. 56.

(3)

1984 c. 27.

(4)

1980 c. 66.

(5)

1990 c. 8.

(6)

1991 c. 22.

(7)

2004 c. 18.

(8)

1981 c. 67.