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Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024

Section 72 – Notice of authorisation of compulsory acquisition

199.Section 72 provides that regulations must be made by the Welsh Ministers that require a person who has been authorised by an infrastructure consent order to compulsorily acquire land or a person for whose benefit the order authorises the creation of a new right (the “prospective purchaser”) to give, publish or display a “compulsory acquisition notice” and to provide the public with access to a copy of the infrastructure consent order to which the notice relates.

200.A “compulsory acquisition notice” is a notice in the form specified in regulations that contains the information set out in subsection (2).

201.The notice must also be sent to the Chief Land Registrar and is to be a local land charge in respect of the land to which it relates.

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