208Powers in relation to acquired land
(1)Schedule 3 to the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (powers, in relation to land of the Homes and Communities Agency, to override easements etc, to extinguish public rights of way, and in relation to burial grounds and consecrated land) applies in relation to an MDC and its land as it applies in relation to the Homes and Communities Agency and its land.
(2)In that Schedule as applied by subsection (1), references to the Homes and Communities Agency are to be read as references to the MDC concerned.
(3)The power of the Secretary of State under Part 2 of that Schedule (extinguishment of public rights of way) as applied by subsection (1) is exercisable only with the consent of the Mayor.
(4)Schedule 4 to that Act (powers in relation to, and for, statutory undertakers) applies in relation to an MDC and its land as it applies in relation to the Homes and Communities Agency and its land.
(5)In that Schedule as applied by subsection (4)—
(a)references to the Homes and Communities Agency are to be read as references to the MDC concerned, and
(b)references to Part 1 of that Act are to be read as references to this Chapter.