The Network Rail (Suffolk Level Crossing Reduction) Order 2020

PART 1PRELIMINARY

1Citation and commencement

2Interpretation

3Application of the 1991 Act

4Disapplication of legislative provisions

PART 2CROSSINGS

5Power to construct and maintain works

6Power to alter layout etc. of streets

7Power to execute street works

8Stopping up of footpath

9Temporary stopping up of streets

10Construction and maintenance of new or altered streets

11Access to works

12Highways subject to redesignation

13Closure of level crossings subject to opening of new rights of way

14Closure of level crossings

15Creation and maintenance of new highway

16Agreement with highway authority

Supplemental Powers

17Discharge of water

18Power to survey and investigate land

PART 3ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

Powers of acquisition

19Application of Part 1 of the 1965 Act

20Application of the 1981 Act

21Power to acquire new rights

Temporary possession or use of land

22Temporary use of land for construction of works

23Temporary use of land for maintenance of works

24Disregard of certain interests and improvements

25Extinction or suspension of private rights of way

26Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition

PART 4TRAFFIC SIGNS

27Traffic signs

PART 5MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

28Power to lop trees overhanging the authorised works

29Obstruction of construction of authorised works

30Certification of plans, etc.

31Service of notices

32Protection of interests

33No double recovery

SCHEDULE 1CLOSURE OF LEVEL CROSSINGS

PART 1CLOSURE OF LEVEL CROSSINGS SUBJECT TO OPENING OF NEW HIGHWAY

PART 2CLOSURE OF LEVEL CROSSINGS NOT SUBJECT TO OPENING OF NEW HIGHWAY

SCHEDULE 2REDESIGNATION OF HIGHWAYS

SCHEDULE 3LAND IN WHICH ONLY NEW RIGHTS ETC., MAY BE ACQUIRED

SCHEDULE 4LAND OF WHICH TEMPORARY POSSESSION MAY BE TAKEN

SCHEDULE 5STREETS SUBJECT TO STREET WORKS

SCHEDULE 6STREETS TO BE TEMPORARILY STOPPED UP

SCHEDULE 7ACCESS TO WORKS

SCHEDULE 8MODIFICATION OF COMPENSATION AND COMPULSORY PURCHASING ENACTMENTS FOR CREATION OF NEW RIGHTS

Compensation enactments

1The 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

4Part 1 (compulsory purchase under Acquisition of Land Act 1946)...

5(1) The modifications referred to in paragraph 4(a) are as...

SCHEDULE 9FOR THE PROTECTION OF DRAINAGE AUTHORITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

1(1) The following provisions of this Schedule apply for the...

2(1) Before beginning to construct any specified work, Network Rail...

3Without limitation on the scope of paragraph 2, the requirements...

4(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any specified work, and all...

5Subject to paragraph 7, if by reason of the construction...

6(1) Network Rail must take all such measures as may...

7Nothing in paragraphs 4(4), 5, 6(3) and (4) authorises the...

8Network Rail must indemnify the drainage authority in respect of...

9(1) Without affecting the other provisions of this Schedule, Network...

10The fact that any work or thing has been executed...

11Any dispute arising between Network Rail and the drainage authority...

2020 No. 1663

Transport And Works, England

Transport, England

The Network Rail (Suffolk Level Crossing Reduction) Order 2020

Made29th December 2020

Coming into force19th January 2021

An application has been made to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Transport and Works (Applications and Objections Procedure) (England and Wales) Rules 20061 for an Order under sections 1 and 5 of the Transport and Works Act 19922 (“the 1992 Act”).

The Secretary of State caused an inquiry to be held for the purposes of the application pursuant to section 11 of the 1992 Act.

The Secretary of State, having considered the objections made and not withdrawn and the report of the person who held the inquiry, has determined to make an Order giving effect to the proposals comprised in the application with modifications which in the opinion of the Secretary of State do not make any substantial change in the proposals

Notice of the Secretary of State’s determination was published in the London Gazette on 3rd December 2020.

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 5 of, and paragraphs 2 to 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 16 of Schedule 1 to, the 1992 Act makes the following Order—