The Network Rail (Reading) (Land Acquisition) Order 2009

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Network Rail (Reading) (Land Acquisition) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 28th October 2009.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1961 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961(1);

“the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965(2);

“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(3);

“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(4);

“address” includes any number or address used for the purposes of electronic transmission;

“authorised works” means the works or any part of the works for the alteration and improvement of Reading Station and the railway and railway facilities to the east and west of the station comprising, in relation to each of the land parcels listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1 (authorised works), the works described in column 2 of that table authorised by the statutes specified in column 3 of that table;

“the book of reference” means the book of reference certified by the Secretary of State as the book of reference for the purposes of this Order;

“building” includes any structure or erection or any part of a building, structure or erection;

“electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—

(a)

by means of an electronic communications network; or

(b)

by other means but while in electronic form;

“the land plans” means the plans certified by the Secretary of State as the land plans for the purposes of this Order;

“the limits of land to be acquired or used” means the limits so shown and described on the land plans;

“maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct and replace, and “maintenance” shall be construed accordingly;

“Network Rail” means Network Rail Infrastructure Limited;

“owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(5)e;

“the tribunal” means the Upper Tribunal;

“the undertaking” means the railway undertaking of Network Rail as existing from time to time.

(2) References in this Order to rights over land include references to rights to do, or to place and maintain, anything in, on or under land or in the air-space over its surface.

(1)

1961 c. 33.

(2)

1965 c. 56.

(3)

1990 c. 8.

(4)

1991 c. 22.

(5)

1981 c. 67.