The Chester Guided Busway Order 2002

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I PRELIMINARY

   1. 1. Citation and commencement.

   2. 2. Interpretation.

   3. 3. Application of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.

3. PART II WORKS PROVISIONS

   1. Principal powers

      1. 4. Power to construct and maintain works.

      2. 5. Power to deviate.

   2. Streets

      1. 6. Power to alter layout of streets.

      2. 7. Power to keep apparatus in streets.

      3. 8. Power to execute street works.

      4. 9. Temporary stopping up of streets.

      5. 10. Maintenance of altered streets.

      6. 11. Agreements with street authorities.

   3. Supplemental powers

      1. 12. Discharge of water.

      2. 13. Power to survey and investigate land.

      3. 14. Planning permission : supplemental matters.

4. PART III ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

   1. Powers of acquisition

      1. 15. Power to acquire land.

      2. 16. Application of Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981.

      3. 17. Application of Part I of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965.

      4. 18. Powers to acquire new rights.

      5. 19. Rights in streets.

   2. Compensation

      1. 20. Disregard of certain interests and improvements.

   3. Supplementary

      1. 21. Acquisition of part of certain properties.

      2. 22. Extinction of private rights of way.

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

5. PART IV OPERATION OF BUSWAY SYSTEM

   1. 24. Power to operate and use busway system.

   2. 25. Maintenance of approved works etc.

   3. 26. Power to charge fares.

   4. 27. Traffic signs.

   5. 28. Power to fell or lop trees.

   6. 29. Obstruction of construction of busway.

   7. 30. Power to make byelaws.

   8. 31. Power to contract for police services.

   9. 32. Powers of disposal, agreements for operation, etc.

   10. 33. Application of landlord and tenant law.

   11. 34. Town and Country planning.

6. PART V MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

   1. 35. Statutory undertakers etc.

   2. 36. Protection of interests.

   3. 37. Application of existing enactments.

   4. 38. Crown rights.

   5. 39. Minerals.

   6. 40. Certification of plans etc.

   7. 41. Service of notices.

   8. 42. No double recovery.

   9. 43. Disclosure of confidential information.

   10. 44. Arbitration.

   11. 45. Withholding of consent.

7. Signature

8. SCHEDULES

   1. Schedule 1

      Scheduled works.

   2. Schedule 2

      Acquisition of land.

   3. Schedule 3

      Streets subject to alteration of layout.

   4. Schedule 4

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

   5. Schedule 5

      Provisions relating to statutory undertakers etc.

   6. Schedule 6

      Protective provisions.

      1. Part I General.

      2. Part II Protection for Railtrack PLC.

      3. Part III Protection for electricity and gas undertakers.

      4. Part IV Protection for sewerage undertakers.

      5. Part V Protection for train operators.

      6. Part VI Protection for the Environment Agency.

      7. Part VII Protection for Railway Paths Limited and Sustrans.

9. Explanatory Note