Application of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981
19.—(1) The Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981(1) applies as if this Order were a compulsory purchase order.
(2) The Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981, as so applied, has effect with the following modifications.
(3) Section 5 (earliest date for execution of declaration) is omitted.
(4) Section 5A (time limit for general vesting declaration) is omitted.
(5) In section 5B (extension of time limit during challenge)—
(a)for “section 23 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (application to High Court in respect of compulsory purchase order)” substitute “section 118 of the Planning Act 2008 (legal challenges relating to applications for orders granting development consent)”; and
(b)for “the three year period mentioned in section 4” substitute “the five year period mentioned in article 20 of the Wrexham Gas Fired Generating Station Order 2017”.
(6) In section 7 (constructive notice to treat), in subsection (1)(a), the words “(as modified by section 4 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981)” are omitted.
(7) In Schedule A1 (counter-notice requiring purchase of land not in general vesting declaration), omit paragraph 1(2).
(8) References to the 1965 Act in the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 must be construed as references to that Act as applied by section 125 of the 2008 Act (as modified by article 23 (application of Part 1 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965)) to the compulsory acquisition of land under this Order.