PART XIIMiscellaneous
35Acquisition of land etc. by Planning Boards
In section 119 of the M1Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980—
(a)
in subsection (1), for the words " The Peak Park Joint Planning Board and the Lake District Special Planning Board " there shall be substituted the words " A board constituted in pursuance of section 1 of the M2Town and Country Planning Act 1971 or reconstituted in pursuance of Schedule 17 to the M3Local Government Act 1972. "
(b)
in subsection (2), for the word's " The Boards " there shall be substituted the words " Any such board ";
(c)
in subsection (3), for the words " the Boards were local authorities " there shall be substituted the words " any such board were a local authority "; and
(d)
“(4)
On being authorised to do so by the Secretary of State any such board shall have, for any purpose for which by virtue of this section they may acquire land compulsorily, the power to purchase compulsorily rights over land not in existence when their compulsory purchase is authorised which section 13 of the M4Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 confers on the local authorities to whom subsection (1) of that section applies, and subsections (2) to (5) of that section shall accordingly apply to the purchase of rights under this subsection as they apply to the purchase of rights under the said subsection (1).”.