{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heathrow-express-railway-act-1991/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heathrow-express-railway-act-1991/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/1991/7",
  "legislation_title": "Heathrow Express Railway Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heathrow-express-railway-act-1991",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Purchase of land",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act—\n(a) the Company may purchase compulsorily and use such of the land delineated on the deposited plans and described in the deposited book of reference as they may require for the purposes of the Company’s works or for any purpose connected with, or ancillary to, their undertaking; and\n(b) the Board may purchase compulsorily and use such of the land delineated on the deposited plans and described in the deposited book of reference as they may require for the purposes of the Board’s works or for any purpose connected with, or ancillary to, their undertaking.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred upon the Company by subsection (1) (a) above, the Company may enter upon, take and use for the purposes specified in column (3) of Schedule 1 to this Act so much of the land referred to in columns (1) and (2) of that Schedule as lies within the lines marked “Limit of land to be acquired or used” on the deposited plans.\n(3) The appropriate authority may enter upon, use and appropriate so much of the subsoil and under-surface of, or airspace over, any public street, road, footway or place delineated on the deposited plans and described in the deposited book of reference as shall be necessary for the purposes of the Company’s works or the Board’s works (as the case may be) without being required to purchase the same or any easement or other right therein or thereunder or to make any payment therefor.\n(4) The appropriate authority shall not exercise the powers of this section or section 21 (Purchase of subsoil or new rights only) of this Act in relation to any land to which the following provisions of this Act apply:—\nsection 25 (Temporary use of land by Company);\nsection 26 (Temporary use of land and access by Board);\nsection 27 (Temporary use of further land and access by Board).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1991/7/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:59.969639+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}