# The Network Rail (Norton Bridge Area Improvements) Order 2014, 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 1973 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1973;
“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980;
“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 2003 Act” means the Communications Act 2003;
“the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008;
“address” includes any number or address used for the purposes of electronic transmission;
“associated development” has the same meaning as in section 115(2) of the 2008 Act;
“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;
“defects period” means, in relation to any highway work, the period of 12 months referred to in article 10(5) (construction and maintenance of new or altered streets) during which Network Rail must remedy defects in a street;
“design brief” means the Design Brief for Landscape Proposals and Mitigation and Restoration of the Wider Landscape (revised September 2013) as certified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“the design drawings” means the drawings listed in Part 1 of Schedule 11 (plans and drawings) and certified as the design drawings by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this 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;
“the Environmental Statement” means the document certified as the environmental statement 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;
“highway work” means any work that involves the construction of a new street or permanent change to an existing street, including changes to road layout, kerbs, signs and markings, lighting, signalling, drainage, landscaping and installation of roadside equipment;
“the land plans” means the plans listed in Part 2 of Schedule 11 and certified as the land plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation referred to in article 6 (limits of deviation);
“maintain” includes to inspect, test, repair, adjust, alter, remove, renew, reconstruct, replace, render unusable, protect or strengthen and any derivative of “maintain” is to be construed accordingly;
“National Grid” means National Grid Gas plc, company number 2006000, registered at 1-3 Strand, London WC2N 5EH;
“Network Rail” means Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, company number 02904587, registered 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;
“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 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 Stafford Borough Council;
“the sections” means the sections forming part of the works plans certified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“statutory undertaker” means any statutory undertaker for the purposes of section 127(8) of the 2008 Act and for the purpose of, or in connection with, Work No. 20, includes UKOP;
“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” means the plans listed in Part 3 of Schedule 11 and certified as the street plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order;
“the traffic regulation order plans” means the plans listed in Part 5 of Schedule 11 and certified as the traffic regulation order plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order;
“the tribunal” means the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal;
“UKOP” means United Kingdom Oil Pipelines Limited, company number 00746708, registered at 5-7 Alexandra Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP2 5BS;
“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 listed in Part 4 of Schedule 11 and 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 and references in this Order to the imposition of restrictive covenants are references to the creation of rights over land which interfere with the interests or rights of another and are for the benefit of land which is acquired under this Order or is otherwise comprised in Network Rail’s railway undertaking.
(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 taken to be measured along that work.
(4) All areas described in the book of reference are approximate.
(5) References in this Order to points identified by letters, with or without numbers, are to be construed as references to points so lettered on the works plans.
(6) References in this Order to numbered works are references to the works as numbered in Schedule 1 (authorised development).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/909/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-norton-bridge-area-improvements-order-2014/article-2
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