Infrastructure Act 2015
2015 c. 7 · Enacted 12 February 2015 · Extends to United Kingdom
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Contents
- Part 1: Strategic highways companies
- Appointment as highway authorities
- 1Appointment of strategic highways companies
- 2Areas and highways in an appointment
- Functions
- 3Road Investment Strategy
- 4Route strategies
- Exercise of functions
- 5General duties
- 6Directions and guidance
- 7Delegation of functions
- 8Exercise of delegated functions
- Oversight
- 9Watchdog
- 10Monitor
- 11Monitor: compliance and fines
- 12Monitor: general duties
- 13Monitor: guidance
- 14Periodic reports by the Secretary of State
- Transfers of property etc
- 15Transfer schemes
- 16Tax consequences of transfers
- Finance
- 17Financial assistance
- Supplemental and general
- 18Transfer of additional functions
- 19Consequential and transitional provision etc
- 20Interpretation of Part 1
- Part 2: Cycling and Walking Investment Strategies
- 21Cycling and Walking Investment Strategies
- Part 3: Powers of British Transport Police Force
- 22Powers of British Transport Police Force
- Part 4: Environmental control of animal and plant species
- 23Environmental control of animal and plant species
- 24Native and non-native species etc
- 25Part 4: supplementary
- Part 5: Planning, land and buildings
- Nationally significant infrastructure projects
- 26Timing of appointment of examining authority
- 27Two-person Panels
- 28Changes to, and revocation of, development consent orders
- Deemed discharge of planning conditions
- 29Deemed discharge of planning conditions
- Mayoral development orders
- 30Mayoral development orders
- The Homes and Communities Agency and other bodies
- 31Property etc transfers to the HCA and the GLA
- 32Easements etc affecting land
- 33Expenditure of Greater London Authority on housing or regeneration
- Her Majesty's Land Registry
- 34Transfer of responsibility for local land charges to Land Registry
- 35Conferral of additional powers on Land Registry
- 36Transfer of power to nominate member of Rule Committee
- Off-site carbon abatement measures Not yet in force
- 37Provision in building regulations for off-site carbon abatement measures Not yet in force
- Part 6: Energy
- The community electricity right
- 38The community electricity right
- 39Supplementary provision
- The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- 40The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- Recovery of UK petroleum
- 41Maximising economic recovery of UK petroleum
- 42Levy on holders of certain energy industry licences Repealed
- Petroleum and geothermal energy in deep-level land
- 43Petroleum and geothermal energy: right to use deep-level land
- 44Further provision about the right of use
- 45Payment scheme
- 46Notice scheme
- 47Payment and notice schemes: supplementary provision
- 48Interpretation
- Other provision about onshore petroleum
- 49Advice on likely impact of onshore petroleum on the carbon budget
- 50Onshore hydraulic fracturing: safeguards
- Renewable heat incentives
- 51Renewable heat incentives
- Reimbursement of persons who have met expenses
- 52Reimbursement of persons who have met expenses of making electrical connections
- Consequential provision
- 53Consequential provision
- Part 7: Public Works Loan Commissioners
- 54Power to abolish Public Works Loan Commissioners
- Part 8: General provisions
- 55Regulations and orders
- 56Extent
- 57Commencement
- 58Short title
- Schedule 1: Strategic highways companies: consequential and supplemental amendments
- Part 1: Highways Act 1980
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- 8Paragraph 8
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- 60Paragraph 60
- 61Paragraph 61
- 62Paragraph 62
- 63Paragraph 63
- 64Paragraph 64
- 65Paragraph 65
- 66Paragraph 66
- 67Paragraph 67
- Part 2: Other enactments
- Public Records Act 1958 (c. 51)
- 68Paragraph 68
- Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (c. 13)
- 69Paragraph 69
- Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27)
- 70Paragraph 70
- 71Paragraph 71
- 72Paragraph 72
- 73Paragraph 73
- 74Paragraph 74
- 75Paragraph 75
- 76Paragraph 76
- 77Paragraph 77
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- 89Paragraph 89
- 90Paragraph 90
- 91Paragraph 91
- 92Paragraph 92
- 93Paragraph 93
- 94Paragraph 94
- 95Paragraph 95
- 96Paragraph 96
- 97Paragraph 97
- 98Paragraph 98
- 99Paragraph 99
- 100Paragraph 100
- Transport Act 1985 (c. 67)
- 101Paragraph 101
- Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Act 1988 (c. 20)
- 102Paragraph 102
- Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52)
- 103Paragraph 103
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8)
- 104Paragraph 104
- 105Paragraph 105
- 106Paragraph 106
- 107Paragraph 107
- 108Paragraph 108
- 109Paragraph 109
- Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43)
- 110Paragraph 110
- 111Paragraph 111
- 112Paragraph 112
- New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22)
- 113Paragraph 113
- 114Paragraph 114
- 115Paragraph 115
- 116Paragraph 116
- 117Paragraph 117
- 118Paragraph 118
- 119Paragraph 119
- 120Paragraph 120
- 121Paragraph 121
- 122Paragraph 122
- 123Paragraph 123
- 124Paragraph 124
- Transport Act 2000 (c. 38)
- 125Paragraph 125
- 126Paragraph 126
- 127Paragraph 127
- 128Paragraph 128
- Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18)
- 129Paragraph 129
- 130Paragraph 130
- 131Paragraph 131
- 132Paragraph 132
- 133Paragraph 133
- 134Paragraph 134
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- 142Paragraph 142
- 143Paragraph 143
- 144Paragraph 144
- 145Paragraph 145
- 146Paragraph 146
- 147Paragraph 147
- 148Paragraph 148 Repealed
- 149Paragraph 149
- 150Paragraph 150
- 151Paragraph 151
- Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (c. 36)
- 152Paragraph 152
- Planning Act 2008 (c. 29)
- 153Paragraph 153
- Schedule 2: Road Investment Strategy: procedure
- Part 1: Setting a Road Investment Strategy
- Introductory
- 1Paragraph 1
- Step 1: the Secretary of State's proposals
- 2Paragraph 2
- Step 2: the strategic highways company's response
- 3Paragraph 3
- Step 3: where the strategic highways company has agreed to the proposals
- 4Paragraph 4
- Step 4: where the strategic highways company has made counter-proposals or failed to respond
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part 2: Varying a Road Investment Strategy
- 6Paragraph 6
- Schedule 3: Transfer schemes
- Application and commencement of scheme
- 1Paragraph 1
- Property, rights and liabilities that may be transferred
- 2Paragraph 2
- Dividing and modifying transferor's property, rights and liabilities
- 3Paragraph 3
- Obligation to effect transfers etc under a scheme
- 4Paragraph 4
- Effect of scheme
- 5Paragraph 5
- Powers and duties under statutory provisions
- 6Paragraph 6
- Supplementary provisions of schemes
- 7Paragraph 7
- Modification of a scheme by agreement
- 8Paragraph 8
- Continuity of employment etc
- 9Paragraph 9
- Compensation for third parties
- 10Paragraph 10
- Provision of information to Secretary of State for the purposes of making a scheme
- 11Paragraph 11
- Interpretation
- 12Paragraph 12
- Schedule 4: Mayoral development orders
- Part 1: Main amendments
- 1Paragraph 1
- Part 2: Consequential amendments
- 2Paragraph 2 Not yet in force
- 3Paragraph 3 Not yet in force
- 4Paragraph 4 Not yet in force
- 5Paragraph 5 Not yet in force
- 6Paragraph 6 Not yet in force
- 7Paragraph 7 Not yet in force
- 8Paragraph 8 Not yet in force
- 9Paragraph 9 Not yet in force
- 10Paragraph 10 Not yet in force
- 11Paragraph 11 Not yet in force
- 12Paragraph 12 Not yet in force
- 13Paragraph 13 Not yet in force
- 14Paragraph 14 Not yet in force
- 15Paragraph 15 Not yet in force
- 16Paragraph 16 Not yet in force
- 17Paragraph 17 Not yet in force
- 18Paragraph 18 Not yet in force
- 19Paragraph 19
- 20Paragraph 20 Not yet in force
- 21Paragraph 21 Not yet in force
- 22Paragraph 22 Not yet in force
- 23Paragraph 23 Not yet in force
- Schedule 5: Transfer of responsibility for local land charges to Land Registry
- Part 1: Amendments to the Local Land Charges Act 1975
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- 8Paragraph 8
- 9Paragraph 9
- 10Paragraph 10
- 11Paragraph 11
- 12Paragraph 12
- 13Paragraph 13
- 14Paragraph 14
- 15Paragraph 15
- 16Paragraph 16
- Part 2: Amendments to the Land Registration Act 2002
- 17Paragraph 17
- 18Paragraph 18
- 19Paragraph 19
- 20Paragraph 20
- Part 3: Amendments to other Acts
- Law of Property Act 1925 (c. 20)
- 21Paragraph 21
- Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948 (c. 17)
- 22Paragraph 22
- Cheshire County Council Act 1953 (c. xl)
- 23Paragraph 23
- Land Powers (Defence) Act 1958 (c. 30)
- 24Paragraph 24
- 25Paragraph 25
- 26Paragraph 26
- Rights of Light Act 1959 (c. 56)
- 27Paragraph 27
- 28Paragraph 28
- 29Paragraph 29
- 30Paragraph 30
- 31Paragraph 31
- Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (c. 88)
- 32Paragraph 32
- Land Compensation Act 1973 (c. 26)
- 33Paragraph 33
- Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30)
- 34Paragraph 34
- Highways Act 1980 (c. 66)
- 35Paragraph 35
- Disused Burial Grounds (Amendment) Act 1981 (c. 18)
- 36Paragraph 36
- Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 (c. 66)
- 37Paragraph 37
- Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28)
- 38Paragraph 38
- Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)
- 39Paragraph 39
- Part 4: Transitional provision
- Power for Parts 1 and 3 to be applied gradually to local authority areas
- 40Paragraph 40
- Duty of local authorities to assist Chief Land Registrar
- 41Paragraph 41
- Continuity of functions
- 42Paragraph 42
- Compensation
- 43Paragraph 43
- Interpretation
- 44Paragraph 44
- Schedule 6: Community electricity right regulations
- Part 1: The right to buy
- “Right to buy regulations”
- 1Paragraph 1
- Kinds of facilities in relation to which right to buy exercisable
- 2Paragraph 2
- Identification of qualifying facilities
- 3Paragraph 3
- The promoter
- 4Paragraph 4
- The community
- 5Paragraph 5
- The members of the community
- 6Paragraph 6
- Kinds of stake which may be bought through the right to buy
- 7Paragraph 7
- Particular kind of stake which may be bought in particular facility
- 8Paragraph 8
- The price of the stakes
- 9Paragraph 9
- Total value of the offer
- 10Paragraph 10
- Buying a stake
- 11Paragraph 11
- Excessive or insufficient take-up
- 12Paragraph 12
- Subsequent disposal of a stake
- 13Paragraph 13
- Part 2: Operators, ownership & related matters
- “Operator and ownership regulations”
- 14Paragraph 14
- Bodies that may be facility operators
- 15Paragraph 15
- Constitutions of facility operators
- 16Paragraph 16
- Ownership of facility operators
- 17Paragraph 17
- Conduct of owners of facility operators
- 18Paragraph 18
- Revenues
- 19Paragraph 19
- Part 3: Information
- “Information regulations”
- 20Paragraph 20
- Particular kinds of information
- 21Paragraph 21
- Possible buyers of stakes
- 22Paragraph 22
- Prospective buyers of stakes
- 23Paragraph 23
- Applicants for stakes
- 24Paragraph 24
- Owners of stakes
- 25Paragraph 25
- Part 4: Supplementary
- Interpretation
- 26Paragraph 26
- Schedule 7: The licensing levy Repealed
- The amount of the levy Repealed
- 1Paragraph 1 Repealed
- Basis of amount Repealed
- 2Paragraph 2 Repealed
- Amounts payable by different categories of licence holders Repealed
- 3Paragraph 3 Repealed
- Exemptions Repealed
- 4Paragraph 4 Repealed
- Unpaid levy Repealed
- 5Paragraph 5 Repealed
- Conferral of functions Repealed
- 6Paragraph 6 Repealed
- Categories of licence holders Repealed
- 7Paragraph 7 Repealed
- Interpretation Repealed
- 8Paragraph 8 Repealed