Paragraph 16 I1

In this Part of this Schedule—

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

• “the engineer” means an engineer appointed by Network Rail for the purposes of this Order;

• “network licence” means the network licence, as amended from time to time, granted to Network Rail by the Secretary of State in exercise of powers under section 8 of the Railways Act 1993^f1;

• “Network Rail” includes any associated company of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited which holds property for railway purposes, and for the purpose of this definition “associated company” means any company which is (within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006)^f2 the holding company of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, a subsidiary of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited or another subsidiary of the holding company of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited;

• “plans” includes sections, designs, drawings, specifications, soil reports, calculations, descriptions (including descriptions of methods of construction), staging proposals, programmes and details of the extent, timing and duration of any proposed occupation of railway property;

• “railway operational procedures” means procedures specified under any access agreement (as defined in the Railways Act 1993) or station lease;

• “railway property” means any railway belonging to Network Rail and—

  1. (a)

     any station, land, works, apparatus and equipment belonging to Network Rail or connected with any such railway; and

  2. (b)

     any easement or other property interest held or used for the benefit of Network Rail for the purposes of such railway or works, apparatus or equipment; and

• “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.