Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000

7 Acquisition and disposal of land by Board

(1) The Board may acquire, hold and dispose of land for police purposes.

(2) The power of the Board to acquire land includes power to acquire it compulsorily in accordance with subsections (3) and (4).

(3) Where the Board proposes to acquire any land compulsorily it may apply to the Secretary of State for an order (“a vesting order”) vesting that land in the Board and the Secretary of State may make such an order.

(4) Schedule 6 to the Local [1972 c. 9 (N.I.).] Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 shall apply for the purposes of the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under this section as it applies to the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under that Act subject to the following modifications—

(a) for any reference to the council there shall be substituted a reference to the Board;

(b) for any reference to the Ministry concerned there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State;

(c) for any reference to that Act there shall be substituted a reference to this Act;

(d) in paragraph 6(2) for the words from “the fund” to the end there shall be substituted the words “funds put at the disposal of the Chief Constable under section 10(5) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (in this Schedule referred to as “the compensation fund”), and shall be discharged by payments out of the compensation fund”; and

(e) in paragraph 12(2) for “the clerk of the council” there shall be substituted “such person as may be designated for the purposes of this Schedule by the Policing Board”.