Section 254 | Compulsory Acquisition For Certain Purposes Of Rights In Land Belonging To Local Authorities Etc | Highways Act 1980 C66

254 Compulsory acquisition for certain purposes of rights in land belonging to local authorities etc

Highways Act 1980 (1980 c 66) | Legislation

254 Compulsory acquisition for certain purposes of rights in land belonging to local authorities etc

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, an order made, or made and confirmed, in the like manner and subject to the like conditions as an order authorising compulsory acquisition of land under section 239 above may authorise a highway authority to acquire compulsorily, subject to such conditions (including conditions as to the persons by whom any works are to be constructed or maintained) as may be imposed by the order, a right upon, under or over any land which is the property of a local authority or which has been acquired, for the purposes of their undertaking, by statutory undertakers, if the acquisition is—

(a) for the purposes of the construction of a bridge or of the approaches to a bridge (not including the reconstruction or alteration of the bridge or approaches in existence at the date of the order) upon, under or over such land;

(b) for the purposes of the execution of any works (other than the reconstruction of a bridge on a different site) for the maintenance, improvement or alteration of the bridge or of the approaches to a bridge transferred to the