# The Network Rail (North Doncaster Chord) Order 2012, Article 2: Interpretation

Extent: E+W+S

(1) In this Order—
“the 1961 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961;
“the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965;
“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980;
“the 1981 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981
“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984;
“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;
“the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008;
“the 2009 Regulations” means the Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009;
“address” includes any number or address used for the purposes of electronic transmission;
“authorised development” means the development and associated development described in Schedule 1 (authorised development) and any other development authorised by this Order, which is development within the meaning of section 32 of the 2008 Act;
“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;
“compulsory acquisition notice” means a notice served in accordance with section 134 of the 2008 Act;
“cycle track” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“the design drawings” means the design drawings submitted under regulation 5(2)(o) of the 2009 Regulations and certified as the design drawings by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order;
“electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—
(a) by means of an electronic communications network; or
(b) by other means but while in electronic form;
“environmental impact assessment” means the assessment of the environmental impact of the authorised development, the findings of which are recorded in the environmental statement;
“the environmental statement” means the environmental statement submitted under regulation 5(2)(a) of the 2009 Regulations and certified as such by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“footpath” and “footway” have the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“highway” and “highway authority” have the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“the land plans” means the plans certified as the land plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation shown on the works plans;
“maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct or replace and any derivative of “maintain” is to be construed accordingly;
“Network Rail” means Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (Company registration number 02904587) whose registered office is at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG;
“Order land” means the land shown on the land plans which is within the limits of land to be acquired or used and described in the book of reference but does not include plots 115 to 119;
“the Order limits” means the limits of deviation shown on the works plans and the limits of land to be acquired or used shown on the works plans and the land plans;
“owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981;
“relevant planning authority” means Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council;
“the sections” means the sections included with the works plans and certified as the sections by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“statutory undertaker” means any statutory undertaker for the purposes of section 127(8), 128(5) or 129(2) of the 2008 Act;
“street” means a street within the meaning of section 48 of the 1991 Act, together with land on the verge of a street or between two carriageways, and 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 street plans” mean the plans certified as the street plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order;
“the tribunal” means the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal;
“watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, canals, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer or drain; and
“the works plans” means the plans certified as the works plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order.
(2) 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.
(3) All distances, directions and lengths referred to in this Order are approximate and distances between points on a work comprised in the authorised development are to be taken to be measured along that work.
(4) All areas described in square metres in the book of reference are approximate.
(5) References in this Order to points identified by letters, with or without numbers, are construed as references to points so lettered on the street plans.
(6) References in this Order to numbered works are references to the works as numbered in Schedule 1.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2635/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-north-doncaster-chord-order-2012/article-2
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