16Application of land purchase provisions of Midland Metro Acts.
(1)The following provisions of the Act of 1989 and the No. 1 Act of 1992 relating to the acquisition of lands or rights thereover shall, subject to the modifications specified in subsection (2) below and any other necessary modifications, apply for the purposes of this Act to the lands delineated on the deposited plans and described in the deposited book of reference as they apply for the purposes of those Acts to the lands referred to in those provisions:—
in the Act of 1989—
section 27 (Extinction of private rights of way);
section 28 (Power to acquire new rights);
section 29 (Acquisition of part only of certain properties);
section 30 (Disregard of recent improvements and interests);
section 31 (Set-off for enhancement in value of retained land);
section 33 (Correction of errors in deposited plans and book of reference); and
Schedule 5—Adaptation of Part I of the [1965 c. 56.] Compulsory Purchase Act 1965:
in the No. 1 Act of 1992—
section 17 (Acquisition of structures where rights only acquired).
(2)For the purposes of this section—
(a)in subsection (2) of the said section 28 of the Act of 1989, for the reference to the works authorised by the Act of 1989, there shall be substituted reference to the works authorised by this Act;
(b)in the said section 31 of the Act of 1989, any references to works authorised by the Act of 1989 shall include reference to works authorised by the No. 1 Act of 1992, the No. 2 Act of 1992, the No. 1 Act of 1993 and this Act;
(c)in the said section 33 of the Act of 1989, for references to the deposited plans and the deposited book of reference within the meaning of the Act of 1989, there shall be substituted references to the deposited plans and the deposited book of reference within the meaning of this Act;
(d)in the said section 17 of the No. 1 Act of 1992, for the references to sections 28 (1) and 29 of the 1989 Act as applying for the purposes of the No. 1 Act of 1992, there shall be substituted reference to those provisions as applying for the purposes of this Act, and for the reference to section 16 of the No. 1 Act of 1992 there shall be substituted reference to section 14 of this Act.