The Eggborough Gas Fired Generating Station Order 2018

Compulsory acquisition of land

17.—(1) The undertaker may acquire compulsorily so much of the Order land as is required for the authorised development or to facilitate it, or is incidental to it and may use any land so acquired for the purposes authorised by this Order or for any other purposes in connection with or ancillary to the authorised development.

(2) As from the date on which a compulsory acquisition notice is served in accordance with section 134 of the 2008 Act or the date on which the Order land, or any part of it, is vested in the undertaker, whichever is the later, that land or that part of it which is vested (as the case may be) is discharged from all rights, trusts and incidents to which it was previously subject.

(3) This article is subject to article 20 (compulsory acquisition of rights), article 26 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised development) and article 42 (Crown rights).

(4) Nothing in this article or articles 18 (statutory authority to override easements and other rights), 20 (compulsory acquisition of rights), 21 (private rights) or article 28 (statutory undertakers) permits the undertaker to exercise any powers of compulsory acquisition in respect of plots 25, 45, 60, 65, 110, 115, 130, 140, 395, 405, 475, 485, 570 and 605.

(5) This article does not apply in relation to any right or apparatus to which section 138 of the 2008 Act (extinguishment of rights, and removal of apparatus, of statutory undertakers etc.) or article 28 (statutory undertakers) applies.