11.—(1) The Board may acquire, hold and dispose of land for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this Order.
(2) The power of the Board to acquire land includes power to acquire it compulsorily in accordance with paragraphs (3) and (4).
(3) Where the Board proposes to acquire land compulsorily, it may apply to the Department for an order (“a vesting order”) vesting such land in the Board and, subject to paragraph (4), the Department shall have power to make such a vesting order.
(4) Schedule 6 to the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (c. 9) shall apply for the purposes of the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under paragraph (3) in the same manner as it applies to the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under that Act subject to the following modifications–
(a)for any reference to the council there shall be substituted a reference to the Board;
(b)for any reference to the Department concerned there shall be substituted a reference to the Department;
(c)for any reference to that Act there shall be substituted a reference to this Order;
(d)in paragraph 6(2) for the words from “the fund” onwards there shall be substituted “funds of the Board (in this Schedule referred to as ”the compensation fund“), and shall be discharged by payments out of the compensation fund.”; and
(e)in paragraph 12(2) for “the clerk of the council” there shall be substituted “such person as may be designated for the purposes of this Schedule by the Board”.