Highways Act 1980 (c. 66)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 19 Compulsory Acquisition of Rights : Modification of 1946 and 1965 Acts

PART II Adaptation of 1965 Act, Part I

8 The following provisions of the Act (being provisions stating the effect of a deed poll executed in various circumstances where there is no conveyance by persons with interests in the land)—

• section 9(4) (refusal by owners to convey);

• Schedule 1, paragraph 10(3) (owners under incapacity);

• Schedule 2, paragraph 2(3) (absent and unbraced owners); and

• Schedule 4, paragraphs 2(3) and 7(2) (common land),

are so modified as to secure that, as against persons with interests in tire land which are expressed to be overridden by the deed, the right which is to be compulsorily acquired is vested absolutely in the acquiring authority.