Part I Powers of Acquisition
Electricity Act 1989 (1989 c 29) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 3 Compulsory Acquisition of Land etc by Licence Holders

Section 10(1)

Part I Powers of Acquisition

1

(1)     Subject to paragraph 2 below, the Secretary of State may authorise a licence holder to purchase compulsorily any land required for any purpose connected with the carrying on of the activities which he is authorised by his licence to carry on.

(2)     In this paragraph and paragraph 2 below “land†includes any right over land (other than, in Scotland, a right to abstract, divert and use water); and the power of the Secretary of State under this paragraph includes power to authorise the acquisition of rights over land by creating new rights as well as acquiring existing ones.

2

(1)     No order

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