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Section 52: Works in Scotland for Phase One purposes

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

The Scottish Ministers may make an order relating to the carrying out of works in Scotland for Phase One purposes.

The following provisions apply in relation to an order under this section as to an order under section 1 of the Transport and Works (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 8)—

section 2 of, and schedule 1 to, that Act (which contain provision about the subject-matter of orders under section 1 of that Act);
sections 3 to 10, 11(1), (2) and (4) to (7), 12 to 14, 16 to 21, 23 and 28 of that Act (which contain further provision relating to orders under section 1 of that Act);
rules and regulations under that Act;
orders under section 12(18) or 18(1) of that Act;
section 57(2A) of, and paragraph 16 of Schedule 14 to, the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (which contain provision relating to deemed planning permission and blighted land).

References to provisions in subsections (2)(a) to (e) include those provisions as amended at any time by an Act of the Scottish Parliament or an instrument made under such an Act.

The power conferred by section 2(3)(a) of the Transport and Works (Scotland) Act 2007, as applied by subsection (2), is exercisable in relation to enactments relating to reserved matters without the restrictions imposed by section 29(2)(b) or (c) of, or Schedule 4 to, the Scotland Act 1998.

In subsection (4), ""reserved matters"" means matters which are reserved matters for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998.

In this Act, references to works authorised by this Act do not include works authorised by an order under this section.

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