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Paragraph 14 I1

England and Wales

In this Part—

  • “construction” includes execution, placing, alteration and reconstruction and “construct” and “constructed” have corresponding meanings;

  • “the engineer” means an engineer appointed by Network Rail for the purposes of this Order;

  • “network licence” means the network licence, as amended from time to time, granted to Network Rail by the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers in section 8 M1 of the Railways Act l993;

  • “Network Rail” means Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (company registration number 02904587) whose registered office is at 1 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 2DN and any associated company of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited which holds property for railway purposes, and for the purpose of this definition “associated company” means any company which is (within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006 M2 (meaning of “subsidiary” etc)) the holding company of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, a subsidiary of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited or another subsidiary of the holding company of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited;

  • “plans” includes sections, designs, design data, software, drawings, specifications, soil reports, calculations, descriptions (including descriptions of methods of construction), staging proposals, programmes and details of the dates of, extent, timing and duration of any proposed occupation of railway property;

  • “railway operational procedures” means procedures specified under any access agreement (as defined in the Railways Act 1993) or station lease;

  • “railway property” means—

    1. (a)

      any railway belonging to Network Rail;

    2. (b)

      any station, land, works, apparatus and equipment belonging to Network Rail and connected with any such railway; and

    3. (c)

      any easement or other property interest held or used by Network Rail for the purposes of such railway or works, apparatus or equipment; and

  • “specified work” means so much of any of the authorised development as is situated upon, across, under, over or within 15 metres of, or may in any way adversely affect, railway property.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

1993 c.43 amended by the Transport Act 2000, section 216, Schedule 17, Part I, paragraph 1, 4(1), (2)(a); Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003, s 16(5), Schedule 2, Pt 1, paras 1 and 5. Railways Act 2005, sections 1(1), 59(6), Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 3(1)(a), Schedule 13, Part 1 and SI 2015/1682.

M2

2006 c.46.

Commencement

I1

Sch. 6 para. 14 in force at 14.4.2020, see art. 1