The Health Act 1999 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Order 2000

Use and development of consecrated land and burial grounds

4.  Sections 238 and 239 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (use and development of consecrated land and burial grounds)(1) shall apply to consecrated ground or, as the case may be, land comprised in a burial ground (within the meaning of section 240 of that Act) which a Primary Care Trust established for an area in England holds for any of its purposes as if–

(a)that land had been the subject of a relevant acquisition (within the meaning of that section) by the trust, and

(b)the trust were a statutory undertaker within the meaning of those sections(2).

(2)

See section 262 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8) for the definition of “statutory undertaker”.