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Channel Tunnel Act 1987

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Channel Tunnel Act 1987
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to provide for the construction and operation of a railway tunnel system under the English Channel, together with associated works; to provide for connected improvements in the road network near Ashford, in Kent, and in the rail network in South Eastern England; to incorporate part of the railway tunnel system into the United Kingdom and to provide for the application and enforcement of law in relation to, and otherwise for the regulation of, that system and matters connected with it; to provide for the construction of certain highways and associated works in the vicinity of Folkestone; and for connected purposes.
Citation1987 c. 53
Introduced bySir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Territorial extent United Kingdom
(England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland)
Dates
Royal assent23 July 1987
Other legislation
Relates toChannel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Channel Tunnel Act 1987 (c. 53) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which authorised the construction of the Channel Tunnel between the United Kingdom and France in accordance with the Treaty of Canterbury, which was signed in 1986. Section 2 of the Act forbade any public subsidy of the project.

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This Act enables to be written Statutory Instruments:

For sea-related matters, see the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, and the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) Order 2003.

The Immigration Act 1971 allows the search of vehicles and the control checkpoint analogous to those at Heathrow Airport.[2]

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