Town and Country Planning Act 1962

163 Acquisition of land of statutory undertakers

(1) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph 10 of the First Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act, 1946, a compulsory purchase order to which this section applies may be confirmed or made without the appropriate Minister's certificate.

(2) This section applies to any compulsory purchase order under this Act authorising the acquisition of land which has been acquired by statutory undertakers for the purposes of their undertaking.

(3) Except where the appropriate Minister's certificate is given, or the land to which the order relates is land designated by a development plan as subject to compulsory acquisition.—

(a) a compulsory purchase order to which this section applies shall be of no effect unless it is confirmed or made by the appropriate Minister jointly with the Minister or Ministers who would apart from this subsection have power to make or confirm it, and

(b) if any objection to such an order is duly made by the statutory undertakers and is not withdrawn, the order shall be subject to special parliamentary procedure.

(4) Where any operational land of statutory undertakers is designated as subject to compulsory acquisition as mentioned in subsection (4) of section five of this Act, any reference in that subsection to an order made by the Minister shall be construed, in relation to that land, as a reference to an order made by the Minister and the appropriate Minister.

(5) In this section " the appropriate Minister's certificate " means such a certificate as is mentioned in paragraph 10 of the First Schedule to the said Act of 1946.