Article 19 Power to acquire new rightsI1

Network Rail may acquire compulsorily such easements or other rights over any land which it is authorised to acquire under the powers conferred by article 16 (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.

Without prejudice to paragraph (1), Network Rail may acquire compulsorily over any of the land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 5 (acquisition of rights, etc.) such temporary or permanent easements or other rights as it requires for the purposes mentioned in relation to that land in column (3) of that Schedule.

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)), where Network Rail acquires a right over land under paragraph (1) Network Rail shall not be required to acquire a greater interest in that land.

Schedule 6 shall have 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.