PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Interpretation
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In this Order—
- “the 1961 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961 ;
- “the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 ;
- “the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980 ;
- “the 1981 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 ;
- “the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 ;
- “the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ;
- “the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 ;
- “the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008 ;
- “address” includes any number or address for the purposes of electronic transmission;
- “apparatus” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act;
- “authorised development” means the development described in Schedule 1 (authorised development) or any part of it and any other development authorised by this Order or part of it, which is development within the meaning of section 32 (meaning of development) of the 2008 Act;
- “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;
- “British Telecommunications Public Limited Company” means the company of that name, company number 1800000, whose registered office is at 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ;
- “building” includes any structure or erection or any part of a building, structure or erection;
- “carriageway” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act and includes part of a carriageway;
- “cycle track” has the same meaning as in section 329(1) (further provisions as to interpretation) of the 1980 Act and includes part of a cycle track;
- “electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—
  1. by means of an electronic communications network; or
  2. by other means but while in electronic form;
- “the engineering drawings and sections” means the documents certified as the engineering drawings and sections by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
- “environmental report” means the environmental assessment report submitted with the application for this Order and certified as the environmental report by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this order;
- “footpath” and “footway” have the same meaning as in the 1980 Act and include part of a footpath or footway;
- “highway”, has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act and includes part of a highway;
- “the highway authority” means the undertaker;
- “the land plans” means the plans certified as the land plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
- “limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation referred to in article 5 (limits of deviation);
- “the local highway authority” means North Tyneside Council;
- “maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove or reconstruct in relation to the authorised development and any derivative of “maintain” is to be construed accordingly;
- “Order land” means the land shown on the land plans which is within the limits of land to be acquired or used permanently or temporarily, and described in the book of reference;
- “the Order limits” means the limits of deviation shown on the works plans within which the authorised development may be carried out;
- “owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in section 7 (interpretation) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 ;
- “Northern Gas Networks Limited” means the company of that name, company number 05167070, whose registered office is at 1100 Century Way, Thorpe Park Business Park, Colton, Leeds, LS15 8TU;
- “Northern Powergrid Limited” means the company of that name, company number 03271033, whose registered office is at Lloyds Court, 78 Grey Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6AF;
- “Northumbrian Water Limited” means the company of that name, company number 02366703, whose registered office is at Northumbria House, Abbey Road, Pity Me, Durham, DH1 5FJ;
- “relevant planning authority” means North Tyneside Council;
- “rights of way and access plans” means the plans certified as the rights of way and access plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
- “Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State for Transport;
- “statutory undertaker” means any statutory undertaker for the purposes of section 127(8) (statutory undertakers’ land), of the 2008 Act;
- “street” means a street within the meaning of section 48 (streets, street works and undertakers) of the 1991 Act, together with land on the verge of a street or between two carriageways, and includes part of a street;
- “street authority”, in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act;
- “traffic regulation plans” means the plans certified as the traffic regulation plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
- “traffic authority” has the same meaning as in the 1984 Act;
- “the tribunal” means the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal;
- “trunk road” means a highway which is a trunk road by virtue of—
  1. section 10 or 19(1) of the 1980 Act;
  2. an order or direction under section 10 of that Act; or
  3. an order granting development consent; or
  4. any other enactment;
- “undertaker” means Highways England Company Limited, company number 9346363, whose registered office is at Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4LZ;
- “watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, canals, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer or drain; and
- “the works plans” means the plans certified as the works plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order.
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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 airspace above its surface.
3
All distances, directions and lengths referred to in this Order are approximate and distances between points on a work comprised in the authorised development are taken to be measured along that work.
4
For the purposes of this Order, all areas described in square metres in the book of reference are approximate.
5
References in this Order to numbered works are references to the works as numbered in Schedule 1.
1961 c. 33.
1965 c. 56.
1980 c. 66.
1981 c. 66.
1984 c. 27.
1990 c. 8.
1991 c. 22.
2008 c. 29.
The definition of “cycle track” was amended by section 1 of the Cycle Tracks Act 1984 (c. 38) and paragraph 21(2) of Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54).
1981 c. 67. The definition of “owner” was amended by paragraph 9 of schedule 15 to the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34). There are other amendments to section 7 which are not relevant to this Order.
As amended by section 22(2) of the 1991 Act and paragraph 22 of Schedule 2 to the 2008 Act, and by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).
As amended by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).
Art. 2 in force at 18.2.2016, see art. 1