London Docklands Railway (Lewisham) Act 1993

6 Stopping up of streets

(1) The Company may stop up and discontinue so much of each of the streets named in column (1) of Schedule 3 to this Act as is set out in column (2) of that Schedule.

(2) After such stoppings up, all rights of way over or along the streets authorised to be stopped up shall be extinguished and the Company may, subject to the provisions of the Act of 1845 with respect to mines lying under or near the railway, appropriate, without making any payment therefor, and use for the purposes of their undertaking the site of the street so stopped up.

(3) Any person who suffers loss by the extinguishment of any private right under this section shall be entitled to be paid by the Company compensation, to be determined in case of dispute under and in accordance with the Lands Clauses Acts.

(4) On the stopping up of Elverson Road under this section, the Company may substitute a footpath for the part of that road so stopped up between points M and N.