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2 (3) It is expedient that the other powers of this Act should be conferred upon the Executive and that the other provisions in this Act should be enacted:

(4) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament:

(5) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the requirements of section 10 (1) (xxix) of the have been observed:

(6) Plans and sections showing the lines or situations and levels of the works to be constructed under the powers of this Act and plans of the lands authorised to be acquired or used by this Act, and a book of reference to such plans containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the said lands, were duly deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the proper officers of the Sheffield City Council and the Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, which plans, sections and book of reference are respectively referred to in this Act as "the deposited plans", "the deposited sections" and "the deposited book of reference":

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1989.

Interpretation.

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, words and expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partly incorporated with this Act have the same respective meanings; and—


 * "the Act of 1988" means the ;
 * "authorised works" means the works authorised by this Act;
 * "existing" means existing at the commencement of this Act;
 * "the LRT system" means the light rail transit system comprising the railways authorised by the Act of 1988 and this Act, including the railways designated as tramways in the Act of 1988, and all works and conveniences provided in connection with any such railways as constructed, extended or altered from time to time;
 * "the limits of deviation" means the limits so shown on the deposited plans:
 * "the railways board" means the British Railways Board;

and the following expressions have the same meanings as in the Act of 1988:—


 * "electric line";
 * "enactment";
 * "the Executive";
 * "land";
 * "street";
 * "traffic sign";
 * "tramway".