Power to acquire land

3.—(1) The Secretary of State may acquire compulsorily so much of the land shown on the deposited plan within the limit of land to be acquired and described in the book of reference as may be required for or in connection with the authorised works.

(2) Nothing in section 68 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845(1) as applied by the 1996 Act shall require the fencing of land acquired under paragraph (1) above from the adjoining land.