The Housing and Planning Act 2016 (Compulsory Purchase) (Corresponding Amendments) Regulations 2016

Pipe-lines Act 1962

1.—(1) Schedule 2 to the Pipe-lines Act 1962(1) (applications for grant of compulsory purchase orders) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 7 (notice after compulsory purchase order has been made), after sub-paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) Sub-paragraphs (4) to (6) apply if—

(a) a compulsory purchase order authorises the compulsory acquisition of land in England or Wales, and

(b) the person in whose favour the order is made is a person to whom section 1 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981(2) applies.

(4) The person in whose favour the compulsory purchase order has been made must serve the notice mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) on any person who, if Part 2 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(3) applied to the acquisition, would be entitled to a notice under section 12 of that Act (notice to owners, lessees and occupiers).

(5) The notice must—

(a) contain a prescribed statement about the effect of Parts 2 and 3 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981, and

(b) invite any person who would be entitled to claim compensation if a declaration were executed under section 4 of that Act in relation to the land (a “claimant”) to give the person in whose favour the compulsory purchase order has been made information about the claimant’s name, address and interest in land, using a prescribed form.

(6) The person in whose favour the compulsory purchase order has been made must send a copy of the notice to the Chief Land Registrar and it shall be a local land charge in respect of the land in England or Wales to which it relates.”

(3) In paragraph 10 (modification of compulsory purchase order provisions to apply to compulsory rights orders), after sub-paragraph (6) insert—

“(6A) Sub-paragraphs (3) to (6) of paragraph 7 shall be omitted.”

(4) The amendments made by this paragraph apply only in relation to a compulsory purchase order made after this paragraph comes into force.

(1)

1962 c.58 (10 & 12 Eliz. 2).

(2)

1981 c. 66.

(3)

1981 c. 67.