Gas Act 1965

Part I E+W+S Application of Acquisition of Land Act and Lands Clauses Acts to Compulsory Purchase of Certain Rights

[F1 1 E+W+S Subject to this Schedule, in relation to the compulsory purchase—

(a) of a right to store gas in an underground gas storage under section 12(1) of this Act, or

(b) of any right under subsection (2) or (3) of section 13 of this Act,

the M1 Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 and the enactments incorporated therewith shall have effect as if—

(i) references (whatever the terms used) to the land comprised in the compulsory purchase order were construed, where the context so requires, as references to the stratum of land constituting the underground gas storage or, as the case may be, the land comprising the well, borehole or shaft, and

(ii) references to the obtaining or taking possession of the land so comprised were construed as references to the exercise of the right.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 4 Pt. I paras. 1, 2 repealed (E.W.) by Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67, SIF 28:1), s, 34, Sch. 6 Pt. I

Marginal Citations

M1 1946 c. 49.(28:1)

2 E+W+S In relation to the compulsory purchase of a right to store gas in an underground gas storage under section 12(1) of this Act the said Act of 1946 shall have effect—

(a) as if in paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 1 to that Act (which affords safeguards for local authorities, statutory undertakers and the National Trust when their land is subject to compulsory purchase) references to the land comprised in the compulsory purchase order included references to any land held with the stratum of land constituting the underground gas storage, and

(b) as if paragraphs 11 and 12 of the said Schedule (which make an order for the compulsory purchase of common land, or of land which is the site of an ancient monument or other object of archaeological interest, subject to special parliamentary procedure in certain cases) were omitted.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 4 Pt. I paras. 1, 2 repealed (E.W.) by Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67, SIF 28:1), s, 34, Sch. 6 Pt. I

3 E+W+S In the application of this Part of this Schedule to Scotland, for any reference to the M2 Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 there shall be substituted a reference to the M3 Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947, for any reference to paragraph 9, 10, 11 or 12 of Schedule 1 to the said Act of 1946 there shall be substituted respectively a reference to paragraph 9, 10, 11 or 12 of Schedule 1 to the said Act of 1947, and for any reference to the National Trust there shall be substituted a reference to the National Trust for Scotland.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 4 Pt. I paras. 1, 2 repealed (E.W.) by Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67, SIF 28:1), s, 34, Sch. 6 Pt. I

Marginal Citations

M2 1946 c. 49.(28:1)

M3 1947 c. 42.(28:2)