Introductory Text
PART 1 PRELIMINARY
1.Citation and commencement
2.Interpretation
3.Application of enactments relating to railways
4.Application of Order to existing Blackpool Tramway
5.Application, modification and exclusion of legislative provisions relating to street works
PART 2 WORKS PROVISIONS
Principal powers
6.Power to construct and maintain works
7.Power to deviate
8.Designation of works
Streets
9.Power to alter layout, etc., of streets
10.Power to keep apparatus in streets
11.Power to execute street works
12.Temporary stopping up of streets
13.Access to works
14.Construction and maintenance of new, altered or diverted streets
15.Restoration of streets if street tramway discontinued
16.Agreements with street authorities
17.New road crossings
Supplemental powers
18.Attachment of equipment to buildings
19.Discharge of water
20.Safeguarding works to buildings
21.Power to construct temporary street tramway
22.Planning permission
23.Power to survey and investigate land, etc.
24.Mode of construction and operation of tram system
25.Obstruction of construction of authorised works
PART 3 ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND
Powers of acquisition
26.Power to acquire land
27.Application of Part 1 of the 1965 Act
28.Application of Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981
29.Powers to acquire new rights
30.Powers to acquire subsoil only
31.Rights under or over streets
Temporary possession of land
32.Temporary use of land for construction of works
33.Temporary use of land for maintenance of works
Compensation
34.Disregard of certain interests and improvements
Supplementary
35.Extinction or suspension of private rights of way
36.Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition
PART 4 OPERATION OF TRAM SYSTEM
37.Power to operate and use tram system
38.Power to charge fares
39.Removal of obstructions
40.Traffic signs
41.Traffic regulation
42.Power to lop trees overhanging tram system
43.Trespass on tramroad
44.Power to make byelaws
45.Power to contract for police services
46.Powers of disposal, agreements for operation, etc.
47.Application of landlord and tenant law
48.Tramcars deemed public service vehicles
49.Substitute road services
PART 5 PENALTY FARES
50.Interpretation of Part 5
51.Operation of Part 5
52.Penalty fares
53.Amount of penalty fare
54.Document to be issued in connection with penalty fare requirement
55.Notice of penalty fare provisions
56.Supplementary provisions
57.Exclusion of double liability
PART 6 PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS
58.Minerals
59.Saving for highway authorities
60.Statutory undertakers, etc.
PART 7 MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
61.Disclosure of confidential information
62.Defence to proceedings in respect of statutory nuisance
63.Certification of plans, etc.
64.Service of notices
65.No double recovery
66.Arbitration
Signature
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULED WORKS
SCHEDULE 2
STREETS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION OF LAYOUT
SCHEDULE 3
STREETS TO BE TEMPORARILY STOPPED UP
SCHEDULE 4
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 limitation on the scope of paragraph 1, the...
3.(1) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph 1, the...
Application of Part 1 of the 1965 Act
4.Part 1 (compulsory purchase under Acquisition of Land Act 1946)...
5.(1) The modifications referred to in paragraph 4(a) are as...
SCHEDULE 5
LAND OF WHICH TEMPORARY POSSESSION MAY BE TAKEN
SCHEDULE 6
TRAFFIC REGULATION
Interpretation
PART 1 STOPPING, WAITING, LOADING OR UNLOADING
PART 2 PARKING PLACES
PART 3 DIRECTION OF TRAFFIC
PART 4 VEHICULAR ACCESS
SCHEDULE 7
PROVISIONS RELATING TO STATUTORY UNDERTAKERS, ETC.
Apparatus of statutory undertakers, etc., on land acquired
1.Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, sections 271...
2.In the provisions of the 1990 Act, as applied by...
3.Where any apparatus of public utility undertakers or of a...
4.Paragraph 3 does not apply in the case of the...
5.In this Schedule— “public communications provider” has the same meaning...
Explanatory Note