Application of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981E+W
22.—(1) The 1981 Act applies as if this Order were a compulsory purchase order.
(2) The 1981 Act, as applied, has effect with the following modifications.
(3) In section 1 (application of act) for subsection (2) there is substituted—
“(2) This section applies to any Minister, any local or other public authority or any other body or person authorised to acquire land by means of a compulsory purchase order.”.
(4) Omit section 5 (earliest date for execution of declaration).
(5) Omit section 5A (time limit for general vesting declaration).
(6) In section 5B(1) (extension of time limit during challenge)—
(a)for “section 23 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (application to High Court in respect of compulsory purchase order)” substitute “ section 118 of the Planning Act 2008 (legal challenges relating to applications for orders granting development consent) ”; and
(b)for “the three year period mentioned in section 5A” substitute “ the five year period mentioned in article 19 of the Eggborough Gas Fired Generating Station Order 2018 ”.
(7) In section 6 (notices after execution of declaration) for subsection (1)(b) there is substituted—
“(1b) on every other person who has given information to the acquiring authority with respect to any of that land further to the invitation published and served under section 134 of the Planning Act 2008,”.
(8) In section 7 (constructive notice to treat) in subsection (1)(a), “(as modified by section 4 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981)” is omitted.
(9) In Schedule A1 (counter-notice requiring purchase of land not in general vesting declaration), omit paragraph 1(2).
(10) References to the 1965 Act in the 1981 Act are to be construed as references to the 1965 Act as applied by section 125 (application of compulsory acquisition provisions) of the 2008 Act as modified by article 24 (application of Part 1 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965) to the compulsory acquisition of land under this Order.