Channel Tunnel Act 1987

37 Supplementary provisions with respect to acquisition of land. U.K.

(1) The purposes for which land may be acquired under section 8 of this Act include, in the case of any land specified in columns 1 and 2 of section A or B of Part I of Schedule 5 to this Act, the purpose specified in relation to that land in column 3 of section A or B as one for which that land may be acquired or used.

(2) The purposes for which land may be acquired under section 36 of this Act include, in the case of any land specified in columns 1 and 2 of Part II of that Schedule, the purpose specified in relation to that land in column 3 of that Schedule as one for which that land may be acquired or used.

(3) Part III of that Schedule shall have effect for supplementing sections 8 and 36 of this Act and for regulating or (in certain circumstances) restricting the exercise of the powers conferred by those sections.

(4) Subject to Part III of that Schedule and to subsection (5) below, Part I of the M1 Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (except sections 4 and 27 and paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 3), in so far as it is applicable for the purposes of this Act and is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall apply to the acquisition of land under section 8 or 36 of this Act as it applies to a compulsory purchase to which Part II of the M2 Acquisition of Land Act 1981, or Schedule 1 to that Act, applies and as if this Act were a compulsory purchase order under the latter Act.

(5) Section 11(1) of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (power to enter on and take possession of land the subject of a notice to treat after giving not less than fourteen days’ notice) shall have effect—

(a) in its application by virtue of subsection (4) above to any of the land specified in the table in paragraph 2(3) of Part III of Schedule 5 to this Act, as if for the words “fourteen days” there were substituted the words “one month”; and

(b) in its application by virtue of that subsection to any other land, as if for the words “fourteen days” there were substituted the words “three months”.

(6) The M3 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 shall not apply to the acquisition of land under section 8 or 36 of this Act.

Marginal Citations

M1 1965 c. 56.

M2 1981 c. 67.

M3 1845 c. 18.