The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Ashton-under-Lyne Extension) Order 1998

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 1991 Act

3. PART II WORKS PROVISIONS

   1. Principal powers

      1. 5. Power to construct and maintain works

      2. 6. Power to deviate

      3. 7. Designation of works

   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. Stopping up of streets and extinguishment of rights

      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. Safeguarding works to buildings

      4. 22. Planning permission: supplementary matters

      5. 23. Power to survey and investigate land

      6. 24. Mode of construction and operation of transit system

      7. 25. Obstruction of construction of transit system

4. PART III ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

   1. Powers of acquisition

      1. 26. Power to acquire land

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

      3. 28. Application of Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981

      4. 29. Powers to acquire new rights

      5. 30. Powers to acquire subsoil only

      6. 31. Rights under or over streets

   2. Temporary possession of land

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

      2. 33. Temporary use of land for maintenance of works

   3. Compensation

      1. 34. Disregard of certain interests and improvements

   4. Supplementary

      1. 35. Acquisition of part of certain properties

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

      3. 37. Public Open Space

      4. 38. Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition

5. PART IV OPERATION OF TRANSIT SYSTEM

   1. 39. Application of provisions of 1996 Order

   2. 40. Traffic restrictions

6. PART V PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

   1. 41. Statutory undertakers, etc.

   2. 42. For protection of Railtrack

   3. 43. For protection of the British Waterways Board

   4. 44. Minerals

   5. 45. Saving for highway authorities

   6. 46. Arrangements with highway authorities

7. PART VI MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

   1. 47. Disclosure of confidential information

   2. 48. Certification of plans, etc.

   3. 49. Service of notices

   4. 50. No double recovery

   5. 51. Arbitration

8. Signature

9. SCHEDULES

   1. Schedule 1

      Scheduled works

   2. Schedule 2

      Acquisition of certain land

   3. Schedule 3

      Streets subject to alteration of layout

   4. Schedule 4

      Streets to be stopped up or to have vehicle rights extinguished

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

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

      3. Part III Streets for which no substitute will be provided

   5. Schedule 5

      Streets to be temporarily stopped up

   6. Schedule 6

      Levels crossings

      1. Part I Tramroad level crossings

      2. Part II Tramway level crossings

   7. Schedule 7

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

   8. Schedule 8

      Land of which temporary possession may be taken

   9. Schedule 9

      Traffic Regulation Orders

      1. Part I Prohibition of waiting and loading/unloading

      2. Part II Direction of traffic

      3. Part III Prohibition on access

   10. Schedule 10

       Provisions relating to statutory undertakers, etc.

10. Explanatory Note