Article 24 Power to acquire new rightsI1

The Company may acquire compulsorily such easements or other rights over any land that it is empowered to acquire under paragraph (1) of article 20 (power to acquire 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.

In the case of the land specified in the table in Part 3 (land over which restrictive covenants may be imposed) of Schedule 7 (acquisition of land and of subsoil of land only and power to impose restrictive covenants) the Company’s power under article 20(1) (power to acquire land) also includes power to impose restrictive covenants over the land for the purposes specified in relation to the land in column (3) of the table.

Subject to section 8 of the 1965 Act (as substituted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights and power to impose restrictive covenants) where the Company acquires a right over land under paragraph (1) the Company is not required to acquire a greater interest in that land.

Schedule 6 has 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.