15U.K.At any time after serving any such notice to treat as aforesaid for the acquisition of any land, easement or right which falls to be served on any owner, lessee or occupier of any land affected and after serving on every owner, lessee or occupier of that land not less than fourteen days’ notice, the Minister of Power . . . F1 may enter on and take possession of, or exercise any of the rights to be acquired with respect to, the land (or such part thereof as is specified in the last-mentioned notice) without previous consent or compliance with any relevant requirements of any of the enactments aforesaid, but subject to the payment of the like compensation as would have been payable if those requirements had been complied with, and, where possession is taken of the land, subject to the payment of interest on that compensation from the date of entry at the rate for the time being in force for the purposes of the following enactment, that is to say—
(a)in the case of land in England or Wales, subsection (2) of section fifty-seven of the M1Town and Country Planning Act, 1947;
(b)in the case of land in Scotland, subsection (2) of section fifty-four of the M2Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947;
(c)in the case of land in Northern Ireland, subsection (1) of section fourteen of the Administrative and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland), 1956.