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Eastern Harbour Crossing

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"Rail Company" means-

(a) subject to paragraph (b)-

(i) the New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited;

(ii) in the event of an assignment under section 7(1) by the New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited to the Eastern Harbour Crossing Company Limited of the benefit of the franchise granted under section 5(1) and upon such assignment, the Eastern Harbour Crossing Company Limited in place of the New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited;

(b) in the event of the benefit of the franchise granted under section 5(1) being assigned to, or vested in, a person other than the New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited or the Eastern Harbour Crossing Company Limited under or in accordance with this Ordinance (otherwise than by way of transfer under section 8), such other person in place of either of those companies;

"rail operating date" means the date notified in the Gazette under section 64(1);

"railway" means the railway constructed or to be constructed by the carrying out of the railway works;

"railway works" means-

(a) the extension of the Mass Transit Railway's existing Kwun Tong Line on a viaduct as far as a new overhead station at Lam Tin, then in twin tunnels or at ground level to the north landfall of the immersed tube, then through the immersed tube on 2 single track lines to the south landfall of the immersed tube and continuing in twin tunnels to a terminus at the existing Quarry Bay Station;

(b) at Quarry Bay Station, 2 railway station tunnels together with a rail cross-over in a tunnel on the south side of Quarry Bay Station;

(c) a new overhead station at Lam Tin with pedestrian access by bridge across Kwun Tong Road, together with escalators to the Lam Tin Estate and modifications to the existing Quarry Bay Station providing a passenger interchange between the Island Line and the twin station tunnels constructed on the extension to the Kwun Tong Line; and

(d) all electrical, mechanical and civil works required as a result of the extension of the Kwun Tong Line to Quarry Bay for the operation of the railway;

"Road Company" means---

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited;