8 Key national infrastructure

8  Key national infrastructure

(1)     This section has effect for the purposes of section 7.

(2)     “Road transport infrastructure” means—

(a)     a special road within the meaning of the Highways Act 1980 (see section 329(1) of that Act), or

(b)     a road which, under the system for assigning identification numbers to roads administered by the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers, has for the time being been assigned a number prefixed by A or B.

(3)     “Rail infrastructure” means infrastructure used for the purposes of railway services within the meaning of Part 1 of the Railways Act 1993 (see section 82 of that Act).

(4)     In the application of section 82 of the Railways Act 1993 for the purposes of subsection (3) “railway” has the wider meaning given in section 81(2) of that Act.

(5)     “Air transport infrastructure” means—

(a)     an airport within the meaning of the Airports Act 1986 (see section 82(1) of that Act), or

(b)     any infrastructure which—

(i)     does not form part of an airport within the meaning of that Act, and

(ii)

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