Article 21
1.—(1) Chapters 1 and 2 of Part 1 of the 2008 Act are modified in accordance with the following provisions.
(2) Sections 5 (powers to provide housing or other land), 6 (powers for regeneration, development or effective use of land), 7 (powers in relation to infrastructure), 8 (powers to deal with land etc), 9 (acquisition of land), 10 (restrictions on disposal of land), 11 (main powers in relation to acquired land) of, and Schedules 2 to 4 to, the 2008 Act, as applied by article 21, has effect as if for every reference to—
(a)“the HCA” there were substituted a reference to “the West of England Combined Authority”;
(b)“Part 1” of that Act there were substituted a reference to “Part 6 of the West of England Combined Authority Order 2017”;
(c)the HCA’s land or land acquired or held by the HCA there were substituted a reference to the West of England Combined Authority’s land or land acquired or held by the West of England Combined Authority.
(3) Sections 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 of the 2008 Act have effect as if for every reference to “land” there were substituted a reference to “land in the area of the West of England Combined Authority”.
(4) Section 57(1) of the 2008 Act has effect as if the following definition were inserted at the appropriate place—
““the West of England Combined Authority” means the body corporate established by the West of England Combined Authority Order 2017.”
(5) Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2008 Act (compulsory acquisition of land) has effect as if for every reference to “section 9” of that Act there were substituted a reference to “article 18 of the West of England Combined Authority Order 2017”.
(6) Schedule 3 to the 2008 Act (main powers in relation to land acquired by the HCA) has effect as if for references to land which has been vested in or acquired by the HCA there were substituted references to land which has been vested in or acquired by the West of England Combined Authority.
(7) Schedule 4 to the 2008 Act (powers in relation to, and for, statutory undertakers) has effect as if for every reference to the HCA under Part 1 of that Act there were substituted a reference to the functions conferred on the West of England Combined Authority under article 18 of the West of England Combined Authority Order 2017.