Article 23 Power to acquire new rights

DLRL may acquire compulsorily such easements or other rights over any land referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) of article 20 (power to acquire land), or impose restrictive covenants affecting any such land, as may be required for any purpose for which that land may be acquired under that provision, by creating them as well as by acquiring easements or other rights already in existence.

Schedule 6 shall have effect for the purpose of modifying the enactments relating to compensation and the provisions of the 1965 Act in their application in relation to the compulsory acquisition under this article of a right over land by the creation of a new right or the imposition of a restrictive covenant.

Subject to section 8 of the 1965 Act (as substituted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 6), where DLRL acquires a right or the benefit of a restrictive covenant over land under paragraph (1) it shall not be required to acquire a greater interest in that land.