Schedules:
Schedule 1
Scheduled works.
Schedule 2
Works: further and supplementary provisions.
Schedule 3
Highways.
Schedule 4
Acquisition of land within limits shown on deposited plans.
Part I
Purposes for which certain land may be acquired or used.
Part II
Application of legislation relating to compulsory purchase.
Part III
Supplementary provisions.
Schedule 5
Temporary possession and use of land.
Schedule 6
Planning conditions.
Part I
Qualifying authorities.
Part II
Development in Greater London.
Part III
Development in Essex or Kent.
Part IV
Supplementary.
Schedule 7
Heritage.
Schedule 8
Heritage: rights of entry.
Schedule 9
Application of other railway legislation.
Part I
Railways Clauses Acts.
Part II
Other legislation.
Schedule 10
Disapplication and modification of miscellaneous controls.
Schedule 11
Burial grounds: removal of human remains and monuments.
Schedule 12
The A2 and M2 improvement works.
Part I
The authorised works.
Part II
Interference with highways and means of access.
Part III
Miscellaneous.
Schedule 13
A2 and M2 improvement works: purposes for which certain land may be acquired or used.
Schedule 14
Overhead lines: consent.
Schedule 15
Protective provisions.
Part I
Protection for highways and traffic.
Part II
Protection for electricity, gas, water and sewerage undertakers.
Part III
Protection of land drainage, flood defence, water resources and fisheries.
Part IV
Protection of telecommunications operators.
Part V
Protection of Port of Sheerness Limited.
Part VI
Protection of British Waterways Board.
Part VII
Protection of Port of London Authority.
An Act to provide for the construction, maintenance and operation of a railway between St. Pancras, in London, and the Channel Tunnel portal at Castle Hill, Folkestone, in Kent, together with associated works, and of works which can be carried out in conjunction therewith; to make provision about related works; to provide for the improvement of the A2 at Cobham, in Kent, and of the M2 between junctions 1 and 4, together with associated works; to make provision with respect to compensation in relation to the acquisition of blighted land; and for connected purposes.
[18th December 1996]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—