High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Act 2021

4 Power to acquire land compulsorily

(1) The Secretary of State may acquire compulsorily so much of the land within the Act limits as may be required for Phase 2a purposes.

(2) Schedule 6 contains provision about the particular purposes for which land within the limits of land to be acquired or used may be acquired under subsection (1).

(3) Part 1 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, so far as not inconsistent with this Act, applies to an acquisition of land under subsection (1)—

(a) as it applies to a compulsory purchase to which Schedule 1 to the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 applies, and

(b) as if this Act were a compulsory purchase order under that Act.

(4) The Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 applies as if this Act were a compulsory purchase order.

(5) Schedule 7 contains further provision about the application of compulsory purchase legislation.