The Docklands Light Railway (Silvertown and London City Airport Extension) Order 2002

16.—(1) The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall, unless otherwise agreed in writing between DLRL and LUL, have effect for the protection of the Underground companies. E+W

(2) In this Part of this Schedule—

• “construction” includes execution, demolition, placing, alteration, reconstruction and maintenance and “construct” and “constructed” have corresponding meanings;

• “EMI” means, subject to paragraph 24(1) below, electromagnetic interference with the Underground companies’ works and apparatus generated by the operation of the authorised works (including the operation of trains using the new railways comprised in the works) where such interference is of a level which adversely affects the safe operation of the Underground companies’ works and apparatus;

• “the engineer” means an engineer appointed by LUL for the purpose in question;

• “LUL” means London Underground Limited;

• “maintenance” means works of maintenance and repair that are material to the structures and safe operation of railway property;

• “plans” includes sections, designs, drawings, specifications, soil reports, calculations, descriptions (including descriptions of methods of construction), staging proposals and programmes;

• “PPP company” means a company undertaking to carry out or secure the carrying out of any or all of the work mentioned in section 210(3) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 M1 ;

• “PPP-related third party” means any person with whom arrangements of the type mentioned in section 215(2)(b) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 are entered into;

• “railway property” means any railway belonging to LUL, any works, apparatus and equipment of the Underground companies connected with any such railway and any land, premises, arch, cellar or vault belonging to or used by the Underground companies for the purposes of any such railway, works, apparatus or equipment;

• “specified work” means so much of any of the authorised works as is situated upon, across, under, over or within 15 metres of, or may in any way adversely affect, railway property;

• “subsidiary” has the same meaning as in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985 M2 ;

• “the Underground companies” means LUL, any subsidiary of LUL, a PPP company, any subsidiary of a PPP company and any PPP-related third party; and

• “the Underground companies’ works and apparatus” means any lines, circuits, wires, apparatus or equipment (whether or not modified or installed as part of the authorised works) which are owned or used by the Underground companies for the purpose of transmitting or receiving electrical energy or of radio, telegraphic, telephonic, electric, electronic or other like means of signalling or other communications.

Marginal Citations

M1 1999 c. 29.

M2 1985 c. 6.