Article 2 InterpretationI1

In this Order—

• “the 1961 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961^f1;

• “the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965^f2;

• “the 1968 Act” means the Port of London Act 1968^f3;

• “the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980^f4;

• “the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984^f5;

• “the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990^f6;

• “the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991^f7;

• “the 2004 Act” means the Traffic Management Act 2004^f8;

• “the 2009 Act” means the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009^f9;

• “address” includes any number or address used for the purposes of electronic transmission;

• “the authorised railway” means the railway forming part of the authorised works;

• “the authorised works” means the scheduled works and any other works or operations authorised by this Order, or any part of them;

• “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;

• “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;

• “cycle track” has same meaning as in the 1980 Act;

• “the deposited plans” means the plans certified by the Secretary of State as the deposited plans for the purposes of this Order;

• “the deposited sections” means the sections certified by the Secretary of State as the deposited sections for the purposes of this Order;

• “electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—

  1. (a)

     by means of an electronic communications network; or

  2. (b)

     by other means but while in electronic form;

• “footway” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;

• “the Harbour Master” means a person appointed by the Port of London Authority to be a harbour master and includes the harbour master’s deputies and assistants;

• “highway” and “highway authority” have the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;

• “the limits of deviation” means the various limits of deviation for the scheduled works shown on the deposited plans and the limits mentioned in article 5(1)(b) (power to deviate);

• “the limits of land for protective works” means the limits so shown and described on the deposited plans;

• “the limits of land to be used only temporarily” means the limits so shown and described on the deposited plans;

• “LUL” means London Underground Limited (company registration number 01900907), whose registered office is Windsor House, 42 – 50 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0TL;

• “maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct and replace and “maintenance” is to be construed accordingly;

• “mean high water level” means the level which is halfway between mean high water springs and mean high water neaps;

• “mooring” means any buoy, pile, pontoon, chain or other apparatus used for the mooring of vessels;

• “the Order limits” means the limits of deviation, the limits of land for protective works and the limits of land to be used only temporarily;

• “owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in the Acquisition of Land Act 1981^f10;

• “parking place” has the same meaning as in section 32 of the 1984 Act;

• “public sewer or drain” means a sewer or drain which belongs to a sewerage undertaker, the Environment Agency, an internal drainage board, a local authority or a harbour authority within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1964^f11;

• “the river area” means so much of the bed, waters, foreshore, banks and walls of the River Thames as is comprised in the lands in the London Borough of Wandsworth numbered 10005 and 10006 on the deposited plans;

• “the scheduled works” means the works and operations specified in Schedule 1 (scheduled works) or any part of them;

• “street” includes part of a street;

• “street authority”, in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act;

• “the tribunal” means the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal; and

• “watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows (whether or not the flow is intermittent), except a public sewer or drain.

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.

Any reference in this Order to a work identified by the number of the work is to be construed as a reference to the work of that number authorised by this Order.

References in this Order to numbered plots are references to plot numbers shown on the deposited plans.

References in this Order to points identified by letters and numbers are to be construed as references to the points marked on the deposited plans.

All distances, directions and lengths stated in the description of the scheduled works or in any description of powers or lands are approximate, and distances between points on a scheduled work are taken to be measured along the scheduled work.