Power to acquire new rights
7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), Network Rail may acquire compulsorily such easements or other rights over any land which it is authorised to acquire under article 4 (power to acquire land) as may be required for any purpose for which that land may be acquired under that provision, by creating them as well as by acquiring easement or other rights already in existence.
(2) In the case of the Order land specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 (land in which only new rights etc., may be acquired) Network Rail may compulsorily acquire such new rights as may be required for the purpose specified in relation to that land in column (3) of that Schedule, by creating them as well as by acquiring such rights of access or other easements already in existence.
(3) In the case of plot shown numbered 306 on the land plans the power to acquire new rights under paragraph (2) extends to acquiring rights on behalf of owners of land affected by the exercise of the powers of the Order for the purpose specified in relation to those plots in column (3) of Schedule 2.
(4) Subject to Schedule 2A (counter-notice requiring purchase of land not in notice to treat) to the 1965 Act (as substituted by paragraph 5(8) of Schedule 5 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights)) where Network Rail acquires a right over land under paragraph (1) Network Rail is not required to acquire a greater interest in that land.
(5) Schedule 5 has effect for the purpose of modifying the enactments relating to compensation, and the provisions of the 1965 Act in their application in relation to the compulsory acquisition under this article of a right over land by the creation of a new right.