Roads (Amendment) Act, 1998
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Amendment of Transport (Dublin Light Rail) Act, 1996. |
7.—The Transport (Dublin Light Rail) Act, 1996 , is hereby amended by— | |
(a) the substitution in section 1 for the definition of “the Minister” of the following definition: | ||
“‘the Minister’ means the Minister for Public Enterprise;”, | ||
(b) the insertion in section 1 after the definition of “public road” of the following definitions: | ||
“‘rights’ includes, in relation to a light railway order, rights which are existing or which are proposed to be created in the order; | ||
‘substratum of land’ means any subsoil or anything beneath the surface of land required— | ||
(a) for the purposes of a tunnel or tunnelling or anything connected therewith, or | ||
(b) for any other purpose connected with a light railway order;”, | ||
(c) the insertion in section 10(2)(a) after “land” of “or any substratum of land”, | ||
(d) the insertion in subsection (1) of section 13 after the first mention of “land” of “or any substratum of land”, | ||
(e) the insertion in subsection (2) of section 13 after— | ||
(i) “to acquire land” of “or any substratum of land”, and | ||
(ii) “adjoining land” in each place it occurs of “or substratum of land”, | ||
and | ||
(f) the insertion after subsection (2) of section 13 of the following subsection: | ||
“(3) For the purposes of this section, any reference in section 10(1) (inserted by section 86 of the Housing Act, 1966 ) of the Local Government (No. 2) Act, 1960 , or in the Housing Act, 1966 , to land shall include a reference to a substratum of land.”. |