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Forth Crossing Act 2011

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41Use of land

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(1)Ministers may take such action on or in relation to land which they enter under this Part as they think appropriate for the purpose for which they entered the land.

(2)For example, Ministers may (if they think it appropriate)—

(a)lay, leave or remove equipment on the land,

(b)take persons or vehicles onto the land,

(c)remove buildings, apparatus and vegetation from the land,

(d)construct temporary works (including the provision of means of access) and buildings on the land,

(e)store and manufacture materials on the land,

(f)search, bore or remove samples from the land in order to discover—

(i)the nature of the subsoil,

(ii)the presence of minerals, or

(iii)the nature of any mining operations or other activity taking place beneath the surface.

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