# The Hornsea Four Offshore Wind Farm Order 2023, Paragraph 22: Acquisition of land

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Regardless of any provision in this Order or anything shown on the land plans or contained in the book of reference to this Order, the undertaker must not appropriate or acquire or take temporary possession of any land or apparatus or appropriate, acquire, extinguish, interfere with or override any easement, other interest or right and/or apparatus of National Grid otherwise than by agreement (such agreement not to be unreasonably withheld).
(2) Where there is any inconsistency or duplication between the provisions set out in this Part of this Schedule relating to the relocation and/or removal of apparatus (including but not limited to the payment of costs and expenses relating to such relocation and/or removal of apparatus) and the provisions of any existing easement, rights, agreements and licences granted, used, enjoyed or exercised by National Grid and/or other enactments relied upon by National Grid as of right or other use in relation to the apparatus, then the provisions in this Schedule shall prevail.
(3) Any agreement or consent granted by National Grid under paragraph 23 or any other paragraph of this Part of this Schedule, shall not be taken to constitute agreement under sub-paragraph (1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/800/schedule/9/part/3/chapter/2/paragraph/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-four-offshore-wind-farm-order-2023/schedule-9/part-3/chapter-2/paragraph-22
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