The Scarweather Sands Offshore Wind Farm Order 2004

Powers of acquisition

Power to acquire land

18.  The undertaker may acquire compulsorily so much of the land shown numbered 4 on the land plans and described in the book of reference as may be required for the purposes of Work No. 3 and it may use any land so acquired for those purposes or for any other purposes connected with or ancillary to its electricity undertaking.

Application of Part I of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965

19.—(1) Part I of the 1965 Act, insofar as not modified by, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this Order, applies to the acquisition of land under this Order as—

(a) it applies to a compulsory purchase to which the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(1) applies; and

(b) if this Order were a compulsory purchase order under that Act.

(2) Part I of the 1965 Act, as so applied, has effect as if—

(a) section 4 (which provides a time limit for compulsory purchase of land) and paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 3 (which makes provisions as to the giving of bonds) were omitted; and

(b) in section 11(1) (which confers powers to enter on and to take possession of land subject to a notice to treat on giving not less than 14 days' notice), for the reference to 14 days' notice, there were substituted in—

(i) a case where the notice to treat relates only to the acquisition of subsoil or the acquisition of an easement or other right over the land, a reference to notice of one month; or

(ii) any other case, a reference to notice of 3 months.

Power to acquire new rights

20.—(1) The undertaker may compulsorily acquire such easements or other rights over any land referred to in article 18 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 easements or other rights already in existence.

(2) The undertaker may compulsorily acquire such easements or other rights over the land shown numbered 1 to 3, 5 to 9 and 11 on the land plans and described in the book of reference (“the relevant land”) as it may consider necessary for and in connection with the construction, use, operation and maintenance of Works No. 2, 2A, 4 and 5.

(3) The undertaker may compulsorily acquire such easements or rights to use the streets shown numbered 12 to 16 on the land plans and described in the book of reference as it may consider necessary in order to obtain access for the purpose of constructing, using, operating and maintaining the authorised works.

(4) The easements or rights referred to in paragraph (3) are rights to use the streets referred to in that paragraph in common with any other persons entitled to use the streets; and nothing in this article is to be taken as conferring a right to interfere with the use of the streets by other persons.

(5) Subject to section 8 of the 1965 Act (as substituted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to this Order), where the undertaker acquires a right over land under this article, the undertaker is not required to acquire a greater interest in it.

(6) Schedule 3 to this Order 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.

(1)

1981 c. 67.