Introductory Text
PART 1 preliminary
1.Citation and commencement
2.Interpretation
3.Application of the 1991 Act
PART 2 works provisions
Principal powers
4.Power to construct and maintain works
5.Power to deviate
Streets
6.Power to alter layout of streets
7.Power to keep apparatus in streets
8.Power to execute street works
9.Construction of new and stopping up of existing paths or streets
10.Temporary stopping-up of paths or streets
11.Access to works
12.Construction and maintenance of new or altered paths or streets
13.Construction of bridges and tunnels
14.Agreements with street authorities
15.Level crossings
Supplemental
16.Discharge of water
17.Planning permission: supplementary powers
18.Power to survey and investigate land
19.Obstruction of construction of busway
PART 3 acquisition and possession of land
Powers of acquisition
20.Power to acquire land
21.Application of Part I of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965
22.Application of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981
23.Powers to acquire new rights
24.Powers to acquire subsoil only
25.Rights under or over streets
Temporary possession of land
26.Temporary use of land for construction of works
27.Temporary use of land for maintenance of works
Compensation
28.Disregard of certain interests and improvements
Supplementary
29.Acquisition of part of certain properties
30.Extinction or suspension of private rights of way
31.Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition
PART 4 operation of authorised busway system
32.Power to operate and use authorised busway system
33.Power to charge fares
34.Service subsidy agreements
35.Registration of busway services
36.Substitute road services
37.Maintenance of approved works, etc.
38.Removal of obstructions
39.Traffic signs
40.Traffic regulation
41.Power to lop trees overhanging busway system
42.Trespass on busway system
43.Power to make byelaws
44.Power to contract for police services
45.Power of disposal, agreements for operation, etc.
46.Application of landlord and tenant law
47.Town and country planning: statutory undertakers
PART 5 protective provisions
48.Statutory undertakers, etc.
49.For protection of Environment Agency
50.Minerals
51.Arrangements with highway authorities
PART 6 miscellaneous and general
52.Disclosure of confidential information
53.Certification of plans, etc.
54.Service of notices
55.No double recovery
56.Arbitration
Signature
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULED WORKS
SCHEDULE 2
ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN LAND
SCHEDULE 3
STREETS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION OF LAYOUT
SCHEDULE 4
PATHS AND STREETS TO BE STOPPED UP AND PROVISION OF SUBSTITUTES
PART 1 new paths or streets
PART 2 paths for which substitutes are to be provided
PART 3 paths and streets for which no substitutes will be provided
SCHEDULE 5
PATHS AND STREETS TO BE TEMPORARILY STOPPED UP
SCHEDULE 6
HIGHWAYS TO BE CROSSED ON THE LEVEL
SCHEDULE 7
MODIFICATION OF COMPENSATION AND COMPULSORY PURCHASE ENACTMENTS FOR CREATION OF NEW RIGHTS
Compensation enactments
1.The enactments for the time being in force with respect...
2.(1) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 1, the...
Adaptation of the 1965 Act
3.(1) The 1965 Act shall have effect with the modifications...
4.For section 7 of the 1965 Act (measure of compensation)...
5.For section 8 of the 1965 Act (provisions as to...
6.The following provisions of the 1965 Act (which state the...
7.Section 11 of the 1965 Act (powers of entry) shall...
8.Section 20 of the 1965 Act (protection for interests of...
9.Section 22 of the 1965 Act (protection of acquiring authority’s...
SCHEDULE 8
LAND OF WHICH TEMPORARY POSSESSION MAY BE TAKEN
SCHEDULE 9
TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDERS
PART 1 prohibition and restrictions of stopping and waiting
PART 2 bus lanes
PART 3 direction of travel
PART 4 prohibition of access
SCHEDULE 10
PROVISIONS RELATING TO STATUTORY UNDERTAKERS, ETC.
Apparatus of statutory undertakers, etc. on land acquired
1.(1) Sections 271 to 274 of the 1990 Act (power...
Apparatus of statutory undertakers, etc. in stopped up streets
2.(1) Where a street is stopped up under article 9...
Explanatory Note