High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017

4 Power to acquire land compulsorily

(1) Subject to subsection (6), the Secretary of State may acquire compulsorily so much of the land within the Act limits as may be required for Phase One purposes.

(2) Schedule 5 contains provision about the particular purposes for which land within the limits of land to be acquired or used may be acquired under subsection (1).

(3) Part 1 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, so far as not inconsistent with this Act, applies to an acquisition of land under subsection (1)—

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

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

(4) The Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 applies as if this Act were a compulsory purchase order.

(5) Schedule 6 contains further provision about the application of compulsory purchase legislation.

(6) This section does not apply to Plot 91 or 91a in the Parish of Bickenhill in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, as shown on the deposited plans and in the deposited book of reference.

(7) In subsection (6), “the deposited book of reference” means the book deposited in November 2013 in connection with the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons.