The Rampion Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014

Compulsory acquisition of rights

25.—(1) The undertaker may acquire compulsorily such rights over the Order land or impose such restrictive covenants affecting the land as may be required for any purpose for which that land may be acquired under article 23 (compulsory acquisition of land), by creating them as well as by acquiring rights already in existence.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this article, article 26 (private rights), article 31 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised project), article 32 (temporary use of land for maintaining the authorised project) and article 33 (statutory undertakers), in the case of the Order land specified in column (1) of Schedule 7 (land in which only new rights etc may be acquired) the undertaker’s powers of compulsory acquisition are limited to the acquisition of such new rights or the imposition of restrictive covenants affecting the land for the purpose specified in relation to that land in column (2) of that Schedule.

(3) Subject to section 8 of the 1965 Act, as substituted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 8 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights), where the undertaker acquires an existing right or restrictive covenant over land under paragraph (1), the undertaker shall not be required to acquire a greater interest in that land.

(4) Schedule 8 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights and restrictive covenants) shall have effect for the purpose of modifying the enactments relating to compensation and the provisions of the 1965 Act in their application in relation to the compulsory acquisition under this article of a right over land by the creation of a new right or the imposition of restrictive covenants.

(5) In any case where the acquisition of new rights under paragraph (1) is required for the purpose of diverting, replacing or protecting apparatus of a statutory undertaker, the undertaker may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, transfer the power to acquire such rights to the statutory undertaker in question.

(6) The exercise by a statutory undertaker of any power in accordance with a transfer under paragraph (5) is subject to the same restrictions, liabilities and obligations as would apply under this Order if that power were exercised by the undertaker.