Aire and Calder Navigation Act 1992

21 Purchase of rights over land

(1) In this section references to the purchase by the Corporation of new rights are references to the purchase of rights to be created in favour of the Corporation and such rights may consist of or include rights restrictive of the user of land.

(2) The Corporation may, for any of the purposes mentioned in section 20 (Purchase of land) of this Act, purchase compulsorily such new rights as they require over any of the land delineated on the deposited plans and described in the deposited book of reference instead of purchasing that land under that section.

(3) The Act of 1965, as applied by this Act, shall have effect with the modifications necessary to make it apply to the compulsory purchase of new rights under subsection (2) above as it applies to the compulsory purchase of land so that, in appropriate contexts, references in the Act of 1965 to land are read as referring, or as including references to the new rights or to land over which the new rights are, or are to be, exercisable, according to the requirements of the particular context.

(4) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (3) above, in relation to the purchase of new rights under subsection (2) above—

(a) Part I of the Act of 1965 shall have effect with the modifications specified in Schedule 3 to this Act; and

(b) the enactments relating to compensation for the compulsory purchase of land shall apply with the necessary modifications as they apply to such compensation.