The River Thames (Hungerford Footbridges) Order 1999

In forceThis text since 2 Aug 1999law://uk/uksi/1999/2981@2026-11-12

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Type: Statutory instrument · UKSI 1999/2981
Made by: UK Government (statutory instrument)
Extent: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

History · 1 version

2 Aug 1999Reading

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Amended by 4: The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017; The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003; The Transport for London (Consequential Provisions) Order 2003; The River Thames (Hungerford Footbridges) (Variation) Order 2001

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apparatus
has the same meaning as in Part III of the 1991 Act;
associated company
means any company which is (within the meaning of section 763 of the Companies Act 1985) the holding company of Railtrack PLC, a subsidiary of Railtrack PLC or another subsidiary of the holding company of Railtrack PLC;
authorised works
means the scheduled works and any other works authorised by this Order;
BT
means British Telecommunications PLC;
building
includes any structure or erection or any part of a building, structure or erection;
drainage work
means any watercourse and includes any land used for providing flood storage capacity for any watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure or appliance constructed or used for land drainage, flood defence or tidal monitoring;
engineer
means an engineer appointed by Railtrack PLC for the purpose in question;
footway
means such part of the authorised works as are open to the public;
LRT
means London Regional Transport and includes any subsidiary of London Regional Transport (within the meaning of section 763 of the Companies Act 1985);
maintain
includes inspect, repair, adjust, remove, reconstruct, and replace and “maintenance” shall be construed accordingly;
navigation authority
means any person who has a duty or power under any enactment to work, maintain, conserve, improve or control any canal or other inland navigation, navigable river, estuary, harbour or dock.
plans
includes sections, drawings, particulars and schedules of construction;
protected person
means, severally, LRT, the Arts Council, or the South Bank Board;
protected property
means in relation to each protected person any lands held or used by that protected person for the purposes of its operation, and any works, apparatus and equipment connected therewith for the maintenance or operation of which that protected person is responsible when the relevant specified works are begun;
public sewer or drain
means a sewer or drain which belongs to a sewerage undertaker, the Environment Agency or a local authority;
public telecommunications operator
means— (a) a person authorised by a licence to which section 9 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 applies, to run a public telecommunications system;
public utility undertakers
has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980.
Railtrack
means Railtrack PLC and any associated company of Railtrack PLC which holds property for railway purposes and for this purpose “associated company” means any company which is (within the meaning of section 763 of the Companies Act 1985) the holding company of Railtrack PLC, a subsidiary of Railtrack PLC or another subsidiary of the holding company of Railtrack PLC;
railway property
means any railway belonging to Railtrack PLC and any works, apparatus and equipment of Railtrack connected with any such railway, and includes any land held or used by Railtrack for the purposes of such a railway or such works, apparatus or equipment;
relevant costs
means the costs, direct losses and expenses (including loss of revenue) reasonably incurred by each train operator as a consequence of any restrictions of the use of Railtrack PLC’s railway network as a result of the construction or maintenance or failure of the authorised works or any such failure, act or omission as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) above.
relevant land
means the land acquired from the person concerned or any other land with which he is, or was at the time when the building was erected, the works executed or the improvement or alteration made, directly or indirectly concerned.
relocation works
means works executed, or apparatus provided, under sub-paragraph (2) above;
river
means the River Thames;
specified work
means so much of any of the authorised works as is situated upon, across, under or over or may in any way affect railway property and which has been notified as a specified work in accordance with paragraph 3(1) below;
Station
means Railtrack PLC’s Charing Cross Station in the City of Westminster.
statutory utility
means a statutory undertaker for the purposes of the Highways Act 1980 or a public telecommunications operator as defined in paragraph 1(6) above.
telecommunications operator
means the operator of a telecommunications code system, and “operator”, “telecommunications apparatus”, “telecommunications code system” and “telecommunications system” have the same meanings as in Schedule 4 to the Telecommunica tions Act 1984.
the 1965 Act
means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965;
the 1990 Act
means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
the 1991 Act
means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;
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;
the deposited plans
means the Works Plan, the Land Plans and the Footpath Plan being the plans certified by the Secretary of State under those names as the deposited plans for the purposes of this Order;
the deposited sections
means the sections certified by the Secretary of State as the deposited sections for the purposes of this Order;
the existing Hungerford footbridge
means the existing footbridge over the River Thames immediately adjoining the Charing Cross Railway Bridge in the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Lambeth;
the fishery
means fish in, or migrating to or from, the River Thames and the spawn, habitat or food of such fish;
the limits of deviation
means the limits of deviation for the scheduled works shown on the deposited plan entitled “Works Plan”;
the pier
means Charing Cross Pier and any works, apparatus and equipment connected therewith;
the Port Authority
means the Port of London Authority;
the scheduled works
means the works specified in Schedule 1 to this Order or any part of them;
the specified works
means so much of the authorised works as may be situated within 15 metres (measured in any direction) of, or may in any way affect, protected property and includes the construction of any such work.
the tribunal
means the Lands Tribunal;
the undertaker
means the Lord Mayor and Citizens of the City of Westminster;
the undertaking
means the undertaking of the undertaker in connection with this Order.
tidal work
means so much of any temporary or permanent work authorised by this Order (which includes the demolition of the existing Hungerford footbridge, any removal of gravel or other material, any dredging or similar work, any geotechnical investigations that may be undertaken and safeguarding works) as is in, on, under or over:— (a) the surface of land below the level of high water spring tides forming part of the river;
Trinity House
means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond;
watercourse
has the meaning given in section 72 of the Land Drainage Act 1991.