{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2024/3",
  "legislation_title": "Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Notice of authorisation of compulsory acquisition",
  "text": "(1) Regulations must make provision imposing requirements on a prospective purchaser—\n(a) to give, publish or display a compulsory acquisition notice;\n(b) to provide the public with access to a copy of the infrastructure consent order to which the notice relates.\n(2) A compulsory acquisition notice is a notice in the form specified in regulations—\n(a) describing the order land,\n(b) in a case where the infrastructure consent order authorises the compulsory acquisition of a right over land by the creation of a new right, describing the right,\n(c) stating that the infrastructure consent order includes provision authorising the compulsory acquisition of a right over the land by the creation of a right over it or (as the case may be) the compulsory acquisition of the land,\n(d) in a case where the order applies Parts 2 and 3 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 (c. 66)—\n(i) containing a statement specified in regulations about the effect of those Parts, and\n(ii) inviting any person who would be entitled to claim compensation if a declaration were executed under section 4 of that Act to give the prospective purchaser information about the person’s name, address and interest in land, using a form specified in regulations,\n(e) stating where and when a copy of the order is available for inspection in accordance with regulations under subsection (1)(b), and\n(f) stating that a person aggrieved by the order may challenge the order only in accordance with section 96.\n(3) In this section—\n“the order land” (“tir y gorchymyn”) means—\n(a) in a case where the infrastructure consent order authorises the compulsory acquisition of a right over land by the creation of a new right, the land over which the right is to be exercisable or (in the case of a restrictive covenant) to which it applies;\n(b) in any other case where the infrastructure consent order authorises the compulsory acquisition of land, the land authorised to be compulsorily acquired;\n“the prospective purchaser” (“y darpar brynwr”) means—\n(a) in a case where the infrastructure consent order authorises the compulsory acquisition of a right over land by the creation of a new right, the person for whose benefit the order authorises the creation of the right;\n(b) in any other case where the infrastructure consent order authorises the compulsory acquisition of land, the person authorised by the order to compulsorily acquire the land.\n(4) The prospective purchaser must send a compulsory acquisition notice to the Chief Land Registrar and it is to be a local land charge in respect of the land to which it relates.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 72 in force at 4.6.2024 for specified purposes, see s. 147(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 72 in force at 15.12.2025 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2025/698, art. 3(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/3/section/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:47.929834+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."
}