The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Airport Extension) Order 1997

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I PRELIMINARY

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

   3. 3. Application of enactments relating to railways

   4. 4. Application of local railway enactments

   5. 5. Application of 1991 Act

3. PART II WORKS PROVISIONS

   1. Principal powers

      1. 6. Power to construct and maintain works

      2. 7. Power to deviate

   2. Streets

      1. 8. Power to alter layout of streets

      2. 9. Power to keep apparatus in streets

      3. 10. Power to execute street works

      4. 11. Permanent stopping up of streets

      5. 12. Temporary stopping up of streets

      6. 13. Access to works

      7. 14. Construction and maintenance of new or altered streets

      8. 15. Construction of bridges and tunnels

      9. 16. Restoration of streets if street tramway discontinued

      10. 17. Agreements with street authorities

      11. 18. Level crossings

   3. Supplemental

      1. 19. Attachment of equipment to buildings for purposes of transit system

      2. 20. Discharge of water

      3. 21. Power to survey and investigate land

      4. 22. Mode of construction and operation of transit system

      5. 23. Obstruction of construction of transit system

4. PART III ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

   1. Powers of acquisition

      1. 24. Power to acquire land

      2. 25. Application of Part I of Compulsory Purchase Act 1965

      3. 26. Powers to acquire new rights

      4. 27. Rights for Work No. 7A

      5. 28. Powers to acquire subsoil only

      6. 29. Rights under or over streets

   2. Temporary possession of land

      1. 30. Temporary use of land for construction of works

   3. Compensation

      1. 31. Disregard of certain interests and improvements

   4. Supplementary

      1. 32. Acquisition of part of certain properties

      2. 33. Extinction or suspension of private rights of way

      3. 34. Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition

5. PART IV OPERATION OF TRANSIT SYSTEM

   1. 35. Application of provisions of 1996 Order

6. PART V PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

   1. 36. Statutory undertakers, etc.

   2. 37. For protection of British Railways Board

   3. 38. For protection of Railtrack

   4. 39. For protection of Environment Agency

   5. 40. Minerals

   6. 41. Saving for highway authorities

   7. 42. Arrangements with highway authorities

7. PART VI MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

   1. 43. Amendment of existing enactments

   2. 44. Disclosure of confidential information

   3. 45. Certification of plans, etc.

   4. 46. Service of notices

   5. 47. No double recovery

   6. 48. Arbitration

8. Signature

9. SCHEDULES

   1. Schedule 1

      Scheduled works

   2. Schedule 2

      Acquisition of certain land

   3. Schedule 3

      Conditions of deemed consent under section 37 of the Electricity Act 1989

   4. Schedule 4

      Streets subject to alteration of layout

   5. Schedule 5

      Streets to be permanently stopped up

      1. Part I Streets for which a substitute is to be provided

      2. Part II Streets over which vehicular rights only are to be stopped up

   6. Schedule 6

      Streets to be temporarily stopped up

   7. Schedule 7

      Level crossings

      1. Part I Tramroad level crossings

      2. Part II Street tramway level crossings

   8. Schedule 8

      Modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights

   9. Schedule 9

      Land of which temporary possession may be taken

   10. Schedule 10

       Provisions relating to statutory undertakers, etc.

10. Explanatory Note