2018 No. 253
Acquisition Of Land, England And Wales
The Compulsory Purchase of Land (Written Representations Procedure) (Ministers) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2018
Made 26th February 2018
Laid before Parliament 28th February 2018
Coming into force 6th April 2018

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7(2), 13A(2) and (6) and 13B(7) of, and paragraph 4A(2) and (7) of Schedule 1 to, the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 and sections 8 and 9 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000, makes the following Regulations.
1981 c. 67; sections 13A and 13B and paragraph 4A of Schedule 1 were inserted by sections 100(1) and (6) and 101(1) and (4) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5). Some, but not all, of the functions of the Secretary of State in authorising the compulsory purchase of land in Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999 / 672. These functions were subsequently transferred from the National Assembly to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).
2000 c. 7. For the purposes of sections 8 and 9, the Secretary of State is “the appropriate Minister” in relation to matters under the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67).
The Secretary of State considers that the authorisation by these Regulations of the use of electronic communications for any purpose is such that the extent (if any) to which records of things done for the purpose will be available will be no less satisfactory in cases where use is made of electronic communications than in other cases.