The Strategic Investment and Regeneration of Sites (Northern Ireland) Order 2003

PART II ACQUISITION BY A DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Compulsory acquisition: vesting orders

3.—(1) Where a development corporation proposes to acquire land compulsorily it may apply to the Office for an order (a “vesting order”) vesting the land in the corporation and the Office shall have power to make a vesting order.

(2) The power to make a vesting order in respect of any land by virtue of this paragraph includes power to create and vest in the corporation new rights over the land as well as to vest existing rights.

(3) The Planning Blight (Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 16) shall apply to land which a corporation has resolved to acquire under this paragraph as it applies to land specified in Article 3(1) of that Order.

Compulsory acquisition: procedure, etc.

4.—(1) Schedule 6 to the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (c. 9) shall apply for the purposes of the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under paragraph 3 in the same manner as it applies to the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under that Act, subject to the following modifications –

(a) for any reference to the council there shall be substituted a reference to the development corporation;

(b) for any reference to the Department concerned there shall be substituted a reference to the Office;

(c) for any reference to that Act there shall be substituted a reference to this Order;

(d) in paragraph 6(2) for the words from “the fund” onwards there shall be substituted “funds of the development corporation (in this Schedule referred to as “the compensation fund”), and shall be discharged by payments made by that corporation”; and

(e) in paragraph 12(2) for “the clerk of the council” there shall be substituted “such person as may be designated for the purposes of this Schedule by the development corporation”; and

(f) paragraphs 19 and 20(2) shall be omitted.