(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order is made under section 41 of the Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Act 2006 (“the Act”) on the application of the City of Edinburgh Council as authorised undertaker for the purposes of sections 23, 24 and 41 of the Act.
Section 40(1) of the Act provides that the powers of the authorised undertaker for the compulsory acquisition of land under section 23 and for the compulsory acquisition of servitudes or other heritable or moveable rights over land under section 24 shall cease five years from the date on which the Act came into force. The Act came into force on 8th May 2006. This Order provides that the period for the exercise of the powers of the authorised undertaker under sections 23 and 24 of the Act is extended until 7th May 2016.