Section 1: Power to construct and maintain works for Phase One of High Speed 2

High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017 · 2017 c. 7View on legislation.gov.uk

The nominated undertaker may construct and maintain the works specified in Schedule 1, being—

works for the construction of Phase One of High Speed 2, and
works consequent on, or incidental to, such works.

In this Act, the works specified in Schedule 1 are called the ""scheduled works"".

In this Act ""Phase One of High Speed 2"" means a railway between Euston in London and a junction with the West Coast Main Line at Handsacre in Staffordshire, with a spur from Water Orton in Warwickshire to Curzon Street in Birmingham.

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