Article 6 Application of existing powers

(1)

The following provisions of the 1994 Act apply to the scheduled work as if it were a work authorised by that Act and as if it were included in the definition of “the tramroads” in section 2 of that Act:—

(a)

section 6 (gauge of tramroads and tramway);

(b)

section 10 (certain works to be deemed tramways, etc.);

(c)

section 11 (extension of powers), so far as it applies Part 2 of the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1988^f1 and section 9 of the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (No.2) Act 1988^f2.

(2)

Article 55 (application of powers) of the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Eccles Extension) Order 1996^f3 is to have effect as if the light rapid transit system authorised by the 1994 Act included the authorised works.

(3)

Section 11 of the 1994 Act as applied by paragraph (1) is to have effect as if, in subsection (2)(d), in addition to the reference to West Street and Winterbottom Street, there were a reference to the roundabout and associated sliproads carrying Manchester Street under Oldham Way^f4.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1988 c.i.
f2: 1988 c.ii.
f3: S.I. 1996/2714.
f4: Section 11 of the 1994 Act was also applied to the highway at the junction of Wallshaw Street and Mumps and the highway at the junction of Wallshaw Place and Bottom O’Th’Moor, by S.I. 2001/1368.