Page:South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Act 1989(ukla19890019en).pdf/7

Rh (3) Any enactment by which any such existing railway was authorised shall have effect subject to the provisions of this Act.

(4) The provisions of sections 54 and 56 of the (advance notice of discontinuance of certain services to be published and functions of transport consultative committees) shall not apply in respect of the discontinuance of any existing railway passenger services from any station or on any line or, as the case may be, the discontinuance of any railway passenger or goods services provided by the railways board, where such discontinuance is for the purposes of, or in connection with, the construction of the authorised works or the transfer of any parts of the existing railways to form part of the LRT system.

Application of works provisions of Act of 1988.

9.—(1)The following provisions of the Act of 1988 relating to works shall, subject to the modifications specified in subsection (2) below and any other necessary modifications, apply to the works authorised by this Act as they apply to the works authorised by that Act:—


 * Section 10 (Subsidiary works);
 * Section 12 (Temporary stoppage of highways);
 * Section 13 (Stopping up streets and footpaths without providing substitute);
 * Section 14 (Stopping up streets and footpaths in case of diversion or substitution);
 * Section 15 (Provisions as to repair of streets, footpaths, etc.);
 * Section 16 (Underpinning of houses near works);
 * Section 17 (Use of sewers, etc., for removing water);
 * Section 19 (Plans to be approved by Secretary of State before works commenced);
 * Section 20 (Gauge of railways and restrictions on working);
 * Section 21 (Provisions as to use of electrical energy);
 * Section 39 (Safety arrangements at public level crossings).

(2) For the purposes of this section—

(a) in the said section 12, for the reference to the limits of deviation and to the deposited plans within the meaning of the Act of 1988, there shall be substituted reference to the limits of deviation and the deposited plans within the meaning of this Act;

(b) in the said section 17—

(i) for the reference to the water authority within the meaning of the Act of 1988, there shall be substituted reference to the Yorkshire Water Authority; and

(ii) for the reference to the limits of deviation within the meaning of the Act of 1988, there shall be substituted reference to the limits of deviation within the meaning of this Act;

(c) in the said section 19, the reference to underpasses shall be omitted;

(d) in the said section 20, in subsection (4), for the word "tramway" there shall be substituted the words "railway in or adjoining any street"; and (e)in the said section 39, for the reference to the railway crossings specified in Schedule 2 to the Act of 1988, there shall be substituted reference to the railway crossings specified in Schedule 2 to this Act.