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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-speed-rail-west-midlands-crewe-act-2021/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/2",
  "legislation_title": "High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-speed-rail-west-midlands-crewe-act-2021",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Power to acquire land compulsorily",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may acquire compulsorily so much of the land within the Act limits as may be required for Phase 2a purposes.\n(2) Schedule 6 contains provision about the particular purposes for which land within the limits of land to be acquired or used may be acquired under subsection (1).\n(3) Part 1 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, so far as not inconsistent with this Act, applies to an acquisition of land under subsection (1)—\n(a) as it applies to a compulsory purchase to which Schedule 1 to the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 applies, and\n(b) as if this Act were a compulsory purchase order under that Act.\n(4) The Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 applies as if this Act were a compulsory purchase order.\n(5) Schedule 7 contains further provision about the application of compulsory purchase legislation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/2/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:59:14.315153+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."
}