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Part 4 SSupplementary

57Incorporation of enactmentsS

(1)The following enactments (so far as applicable for the purposes of and not inconsistent with, or varied by, the provisions of this Act) are incorporated with this Act—

(a)the Lands Clauses Acts, except sections 120 to 124 and section 127 of the 1845 Lands Act;

(b)the 1845 Act, except sections 1, 7 to 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25 to 37, 40 to 50, 52 to 56, 58, 59, 66, 68, 87 and 88; and

(c)in the Railways Clauses Act 1863 (c. 92), section 12.

(2)In construing the enactments incorporated with this Act—

(a)this Act shall be deemed to be the special Act;

(b)the authorised undertaker shall be deemed to be the promoter of the undertaking or the company;

(c)the authorised works shall be deemed to be the works or the undertaking;

(d)sections 18 and 21 of the 1845 Act shall not apply in any case where the relations between the authorised undertaker and any other person are regulated by sections 143 and 144 of the 1991 Act; and

(e)section 60 of the 1845 Act shall have effect with the omission of the words from “Such and” to “formation thereof” and from “together with all necessary gates” to “all necessary stiles”.

58InterpretationS

(1)In this Act—

(2)Except in relation to section 4, any reference in any description of works, powers or land to area, distance, length or direction, or to a particular location shall be construed as if qualified by the words “or thereby”.

59Rights of Scottish MinistersS

(1)Nothing in this Act affects prejudicially any estate, right, power, privilege, authority or exemption of the Scottish Ministers.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), nothing in this Act authorises the acquisition of land (including any rights or interests in land) held or used by a minister of the Crown, a government department or the Scottish Ministers without the consent in writing of that minister or government department or of the Scottish Ministers.

(3)A consent under subsection (2) may be given unconditionally or subject to terms and conditions.

60Short titleS

This Act may be cited as the Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Act 2007.