- apparatus
has the same meaning as in Part III of the 1991 Act;
- application date
means the day on which application was made to the Secretary of State for this Order;
- authorised street tramway
means any street tramway authorised by this Order;
- authorised tramroad
means any tramroad authorised by this Order;
- authorised tramway
means the tramway (consisting of the authorised street tramways and the authorised tramroads) authorised by this Order;
- authorised works
means the scheduled works and any other works authorised by this Order;
- barrier
includes gates;
- building
includes any structure or erection or any part of a building, structure or erection;
- carriageway
has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980;
- cycle
has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act 1988.
- electric line
has the meaning given by section 64(1) of the Electricity Act 1989;
- goods
includes any thing conveyed on the authorised tramway;
- lease
includes an agreement for a lease;
- maintain
includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct and replace and “maintenance” shall be construed accordingly;
- new level crossing
means the place at which an authorised tramroad crosses a highway on the level under the powers conferred by this article;
- occupier
means a person occupying land under a tenancy for a period of more than one month (not being a statutory tenant within the meaning of the Rent Act 1977 or the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976;
- plans
includes sections, drawings, specifications, calculations and descriptions.
- protective equipment
includes lights, traffic signs (within the meaning of section 64(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984), manual, mechanical, automatic, electrical or telephonic equipment or other devices.
- 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, or (b) a person to whom the telecommunications code has been applied pursuant to section 10 of that Act;
- public utility undertakers
has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980.
- 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.
- relevant limits
means the limits of deviation, limits of widening or limits of land to be acquired or used;
- relocation works
means works executed, or apparatus provided, under sub-paragraph (2) above;
- 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.
- street
includes part of a street;
- street tramway
means any part of a tramway which is laid along a street— (a) whether or not the section of the street in which its rails are laid may be used by other traffic;
- telecommunications apparatus
has the same meaning as in the telecommunications code.
- telecommunications code
means the telecommunications code contained in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984 and “telecommunications apparatus” has the same meaning as in the telecommunications code.
- 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 1993 Act
means the Leeds Supertram Act 1993;
- the Applications Rules
means the Transport and Works (Applications and Objections Procedure) Rules 1992;
- the book of reference
means the book of reference described in rule 7(5) of the Applications Rules;
- the City
means the City of Leeds;
- the company
means the Executive;
- the deposited plans
means the plans described in rule 7(1)(a) and 7(3) of the Applications Rules and references to the land shown on those plans are references to the land so shown pursuant to rule 7(3);
- the deposited sections
means the sections described in rule 7(2) of the Applications Rules;
- the Executive
means the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive;
- the limits of deviation
means the limits of deviation for the scheduled works (being scheduled works not comprising a street widening) shown on the deposited plans or, if, in relation to any such work in a street, no such limits are shown, the boundaries of that street on the application date (including those boundaries as from time to time altered or widened under this Order);
- the limits of land to be acquired or used
means the limits of land to be acquired or used shown on the deposited plans;
- the limits of widening
means the limits of widening shown on the deposited plans;
- the railway
means the authorised tramroads and also in the application of sections 87, 88, 97, 103 to 105, 144, 145 and 154 of the said Act of 1845, the authorised street tramways, together with (except where the context otherwise requires) any authorised works ancillary thereto;
- the scheduled works
means the works specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;
- the special Act
means this Order;
- the tribunal
means the Lands Tribunal.
- toll
includes any rate or charge or other payment payable under this Order or any other enactment for any passenger or goods conveyed on any authorised tramway to be constructed under this Order.
- tram
means any vehicle (whether or not used for the carriage of passengers) carried on flanged wheels along the rails of a tramway;
- tramroad
means any part of a tramway which is not a street tramway;
- tramway
means a system of transport used wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers and employing parallel rails which provide support and guidance for vehicles carried on flanged wheels;
- watercourse
includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer or drain;