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The Sizewell C (Nuclear Generating Station) Order 2022

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Private rights of way

33.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, and article 16 (permanent stopping up of streets, change of status, and extinguishment of private means of access) insofar as it relates to private means of access, all private rights of way over land subject to compulsory acquisition under this Order are extinguished—

(a)as from the date of acquisition of the land by the undertaker, whether compulsorily or by agreement; or

(b)on the date of entry on the land by the undertaker under section 11(1) of the 1965 Act (power of entry),

whichever is the earlier.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this article, and article 16 insofar as it relates to private means of access, all private rights of way over land owned by the undertaker which, being within the Order limits, is required for the purposes of this Order are extinguished on the appropriation of the land by the undertaker for any of those purposes.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this article, all private rights of way over land of which the undertaker takes temporary possession under this Order are suspended and unenforceable for as long as the undertaker remains in lawful possession of the land.

(4) Any person who suffers loss by the extinguishment or suspension of any private right of way under this article will be entitled to compensation in accordance with section 152 of the 2008 Act to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.

(5) This article does not apply in relation to any right of way to which section 138 of the 2008 Act (Extinguishment of rights, and removal of apparatus, of statutory undertakers etc.) or where article 42 (statutory undertakers) applies.

(6) Paragraphs (1) to (3) have effect subject to—

(a)any notice given by the undertaker before—

(i)the completion of the acquisition of the land,

(ii)the undertaker’s appropriation of it,

(iii)the undertaker’s entry onto it, or

(iv)the undertaker’s taking temporary possession of it,

that any or all of those paragraphs do not apply to any right of way specified in the notice; and

(b)any agreement made at any time between the undertaker and the person in or to whom the right of way in question is vested or belongs.

(7) Where an agreement referred to in paragraph (6)(b)—

(a)is made with a person in or to whom the right of way is vested or belongs; and

(b)is expressed to have effect also for the benefit of those deriving title from or under that person,

the agreement is effective in respect of the persons so deriving title, whether the title was derived before or after the making of the agreement.

(8) This article does not apply to any loss suffered under article 16.

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