Article 3 Power to acquire land

Network Rail may acquire compulsorily so much of the Order land shown on the land plan and described in the book of reference as may be required for or in connection with the authorised works, and it may use any land so acquired for those purposes or for any other purposes ancillary to the undertaking.

This article is subject to article (new rights only to be acquired in certain lands), paragraph (8) of article (temporary use of land for construction of works) and article 21 (saving for Crown).