15.—(1) The Acquisition of Land Act 1981(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In section 16 (statutory undertakers' land excluded from compulsory purchase), in subsection (3)(2)–
(a)the word “and” at the end of paragraph (a) is omitted;
(b)at the end of paragraph (b) there is inserted
“and
(c)a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977;”.
(3) In section 17 (local authority and statutory undertakers' land), in the definition of “statutory undertakers” in subsection (4)(3), before paragraph (b) there is inserted–
“(ad)a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977,”.
Section 16(3) was inserted by the 1990 Act, Schedule 8, paragraph 8(1).
In the definition of “statutory undertakers”, paragraph (aa) was inserted by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 23, and paragraphs (ab) and (ac) were inserted by the Education Act 1996 (c. 56), Schedule 37, paragraph 51: paragraph (ab) was repealed by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, section 140(3) and Schedule 31, and paragraph (ac) is repealed by that Schedule from a day to be appointed under section 145(3) of that Act.