British Railways (No. 3) Order Confirmation Act 1994

Purchase of new rights over land

14 (1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Board may for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, protecting, altering, renewing and using the works, or for the purpose of obtaining access to the works or for the purpose of doing any other thing necessary in connection with the works, purchase compulsorily and use so much of the subsoil and undersurface of, or may purchase compulsorily such new rights as they require in, under or over, any of the land within the limits of deviation and described in the deposited book of reference instead of purchasing that land under section 13 (Purchase of land) of this Order.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) below, the Lands Clauses Acts, as applied by this Order, shall have effect with the modifications necessary to make them apply to the compulsory purchase of new rights under subsection (1) above and under section 15 (Purchase of specific new rights over land) of this Order as they apply to the compulsory purchase of land so that, in appropriate contexts, references in the Lands Clauses Acts to land are read as referring, or as including references, to the new rights or to land over which the new rights are, or are to be, exercisable, according to the requirements of the particular context.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) above, section 90 of the [1845 c. 19.] Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 shall not apply to any compulsory purchase by the Board under this section or section 15 (Purchase of specific new rights over land) of this Order.