The Croxley Rail Link Order 2013

Power to acquire new rights

19.—(1) The Council may acquire compulsorily such easements or other rights over any land referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) of article 16 (power to acquire land), as may be required for any purpose for which that land may be acquired under that provision, by creating them as well as by acquiring easements or other rights already in existence.

(2) The Council may impose restrictive covenants affecting any land referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) of article 16 which is or will, on completion of the authorised works, lie beneath the authorised railway where it is running on the viaduct comprised in Work No. 1 as may be required for the purpose of protecting the authorised railway.

(3) Subject to section 8 of the 1965 Act (as substituted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights)) where the Council acquires a right over land or the benefit of a restrictive covenant over land under paragraph (1) or (2) or article 20 (new rights etc. only to be acquired in certain lands) the Council is not required to acquire a greater interest in that land.

(4) Schedule 5 has effect for the purpose of modifying the enactments relating to compensation and the provisions of the 1965 Act in their application in relation to the compulsory acquisition under this article or article 20 of a right over land by the creation of a new right or the imposition of a restrictive covenant.