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(1)Where any land is designated by a development plan as subject to compulsory acquisition by a Minister or local authority or by statutory undertakers, that Minister or authority or those undertakers may be authorised to acquire that land compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(2)The compulsory acquisition of land under this section may be authorised—
(a)in the case of land designated by a development plan as subject to acquisition by a Minister, by that Minister ;
(b)in the case of land so designated as subject to acquisition by a local authority, by the Minister concerned with the functions in question ;
(c)in the case of land so designated as subject to acquisition by statutory undertakers, by the Minister who is the appropriate Minister for the purposes of those undertakers.
(3)The Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act, 1946, shall apply to the compulsory acquisition of land under this section, and accordingly shall have effect—
(a)as if this section had been in force immediately before the commencement of that Act;
(b)as if any reference in that Act to a local authority (except the references thereto in subsection (2) of section one and in paragraph 9 of the First Schedule) included a reference to statutory undertakers ; and
(c)as if references therein to the Minister of Transport, and to the enactments specified in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one of that Act, included respectively references to any Minister and to the provisions of this section.
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