Power to acquire new rights
8.—(1) In the case of the land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 1 (land in which only new rights etc., may be acquired) Network Rail’s powers of compulsory acquisition under article 5 (power to acquire land) are limited to the acquisition of such new rights as may be required for the purposes specified in relation to that land in column (3) of that Schedule.
(2) Subject to Schedule 2A (counter-notice requiring purchase of land) to the 1965 Act (as substituted by paragraph 5(8) of Schedule 2 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchasing enactments for creation of new rights)), where Network Rail acquires a right over land under paragraph (1) Network Rail is not required to acquire a greater interest in that land.
(3) Schedule 2 has effect for the purpose of modifying the enactments relating to compensation, and the provisions of the 1965 Act, in its application in relation to the compulsory acquisition under this article of a right over land by the creation of a new right.