26.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the undertaker may acquire such rights over the Order land or impose such restrictive covenants affecting the Order land, including rights and restrictive covenants for the benefit of a statutory undertaker or any other person, as may be required for any purpose for which that land may be acquired under article 22 (compulsory acquisition of land), by creating them as well as acquiring rights already in existence.
(2) In the case of the Order land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part 1 (land in which only new rights etc., may be acquired) and Part 2 (rights for the benefit of Cadent) of Schedule 6 (land in which only new rights etc., may be acquired), the undertaker’s powers of compulsory acquisition under paragraph (1) are limited to the acquisition of such wayleaves, easements, new rights in the land or the imposition of such restrictive covenants as the undertaker may require for or in connection with the authorised development for the purposes specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of Part 1 and Part 2 of Schedule 6 in relation to that land.
(3) The power under paragraph (1) to acquire the rights and to impose the restrictive covenants described in Part 2 of Schedule 6 for the benefit of Cadent—
(a)does not preclude the acquisition of such other rights and the imposition of such other restrictive covenants in respect of the same land in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 6 as may be required for the benefit of any other statutory undertaker; and
(b)must not be exercised by the undertaker in a way that precludes the acquisition of such other rights and the imposition of such other restrictive covenants in respect of the same land in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 6 as are required for the benefit of any other statutory undertaker.
(4) Subject to section 8(1) (other provisions as to divided land) of, and Schedule 2A(2) (counter-notice requiring purchase of land) to, the 1965 Act (as substituted by paragraph 5(8) of Schedule 7 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights), where the undertaker acquires a right over land or the benefit of a restrictive covenant under paragraph (1), the undertaker is not required to acquire a greater interest in that land.
(5) Schedule 7 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights) has effect for the purpose of modifying the enactments relating to compensation and the provisions of the 1965 Act in their application to the compulsory acquisition under this article of a right over land by the creation of a new right or the imposition of a restrictive covenant.
Section 8 was amended by paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 17 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and S.I. 2009/1307.
Schedule 2A was inserted by paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 17 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016.