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F187 .—(1) [F2Subject to paragraph (1A),] the Department may, by agreement or compulsorily, acquire any land where it is satisfied—
(a)that the land is required in connection with a development scheme; or
(b)that it is expedient in the public interest that the land should be held together with land so required; or
(c)that the land is required for development or redevelopment, or both, as a whole for the purpose of providing for the relocation of population or industry or the replacement of open space in the course of the redevelopment or improvement of another area as a whole; or
(d)that it is expedient to acquire the land for a purpose which it is necessary to achieve in the interests of the proper planning of an area in which the land is situated.
[F3(1A) The Department shall not acquire any estate in Crown land unless—
(a)it is an estate which is for the time being held otherwise than by or on behalf of the Crown; and
(b)the appropriate authority consents to the acquisition.]
(2) Where the Department in exercise of the power conferred on it by paragraph (1) desires to acquire any land otherwise than by agreement, the Department may make an order (in this Article referred to as a “vesting order”) vesting the land in the Department.
(3) Schedule 6 to the [1972 c.9 (N.I.)] Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 shall, subject to the modifications specified in Schedule 2, apply for the purposes of the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under this Article in the same manner as it applies to the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under that Act.
(4) The power to make a vesting order in respect of land—
(a)which is the property of a public body which has power under any transferred provision to acquire land compulsorily; or
(b)which is declared by or under any transferred provision to be inalienable,
shall not, where representations objecting to the proposal to make the order have been duly made by the owner of the land and have not been withdrawn, be exercised in relation to that land unless the proposal to make the vesting order has been approved by a resolution of the Assembly.
(5) Before acquiring any land under paragraph (1) the Department shall consult with the district council in whose area the land is situated.
(6) Proceedings under this Article for the acquisition of land in connection with a development scheme may be taken concurrently (so far as practicable) with proceedings required by Article 86 to be taken for the purpose of the making of an order in relation to that development scheme, so, however, that a vesting order vesting any such land in the Department shall not be made until the order adopting the development scheme has been made.
(7) The Department may appropriate land for the purposes set out in paragraph (1).
F4(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(9) In this Part any reference to the acquisition or appropriation of land for planning purposes is a reference to its acquisition or appropriation under this Article.
[F5(10) “Appropriate authority” and “Crown land” shall be construed in accordance with Article 118(1).]
F1functions transferred SR 1999/481
F2Words in art. 87(1) inserted (10.6.2006) by Planning Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1252 (N.I. 7)), arts. 1(4), 21(3), Sch. 1 para. 5(2)
F3Art. 87(1A) inserted (10.6.2006) by Planning Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1252 (N.I. 7)), arts. 1(4), 21(3), Sch. 1 para. 5(3)
F4Art. 87(8) repealed (1.4.2015) by Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 7 (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, art. 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2) (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2)
F5Art. 87(10) inserted (10.6.2006) by Planning Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1252 (N.I. 7)), arts. 1(4), 27(3), Sch. 1 para. 5(4)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Arts. 87-93 applied (with modifications) (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), ss. 202(3), 254(1)(2) (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2) (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2)
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