Article 5 Application of the Leeds Supertram Act 1993

(1)

The authorised tramway shall be treated as part of the tramway system (as defined in the 1993 Act) for the purposes of sections 3(3), 4(4), 23, 24, 37, 40(17), 45 to 53, 57 to 60 and 62 to 67 of that Act; but it shall not be so treated for the purposes of sections 10, 11, 15, 54 and 55 of that Act.

(2)

In the application of the 1993 Act to the authorised tramway—

(a)

the references in section 57(1) to any tramway shall be treated as including a reference to any authorised street tramway;

(b)

the reference in section 62(1) to any railway of the tramway system which is not designated as a tramway shall be treated as a reference to the authorised tramroads; and

(c)

the reference in section 66(1) and (4) to the 1993 Act shall be treated as a reference to this Order.

(3)

Sections 4(5), 7(4) and (7), 8(2), 16 and 68 of the 1993 Act shall have effect for the purposes of the authorised street tramways as they have effect for the purposes of the tramways authorised by that Act.

(4)

Section 43(2) to (11) of the 1993 Act shall apply as if references in that section to “authorised works” included a reference to the works authorised by this Order and references to “the specified land” were a reference to the part of any burial ground (within the meaning of the Open Spaces Act 1906^f1) which is used for the construction of the works so authorised.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1906 c. 25.