The Sizewell C (Nuclear Generating Station) Order 2022

Acquisition of Land

78.—(1) Despite any provision of this Order or anything shown on the land plans or contained in the book of reference, the undertaker must not exercise any power—

(a) to appropriate, acquire, extinguish, interfere with or override any land or interests held by ENGL in the Site;

(b) to temporarily possess any order land located within any part of the Site;

(c) to grant new rights or impose restrictive covenants over the Site,

otherwise than by agreement with ENGL.

(2) Despite any provision of this Order or anything shown on the land plans or contained in the book of reference, the undertaker must not exercise any power to acquire, divert, interfere with or relocate apparatus or Service Media in the Site or which serves the Site otherwise than by agreement with ENGL.

(3) Despite any provision of this Order or anything shown on the Land Plans or contained in the Book of Reference, the undertaker must not exercise any power to appropriate, acquire, extinguish, interfere with or override any third-party interest in the Site without ENGL’s written consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

(4) Where the undertaker and ENGL agree under this paragraph that any land interest in the Site, or apparatus in the Site, may be acquired by agreement at a time when the NSL remains in force, such acquisition may only take place after the consent of the Office for Nuclear Regulation has first been obtained by ENGL where required in accordance with the NSL.