{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-west-coast-main-line-order-2004/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-west-coast-main-line-order-2004/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/389",
  "legislation_title": "The Network Rail (West Coast Main Line) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-west-coast-main-line-order-2004",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Power to acquire land",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), Network Rail may acquire compulsorily—\n(a) so much of the land shown on the deposited plans within the limits of deviation for the scheduled works shown on those plans and described in the book of reference as may be required for or in connection with the authorised works; and\n(b) so much of the land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 2 to this Order as may be required for the purpose specified in relation to that land in column (3) of that Schedule,\nand may use any land so acquired for those purposes or for any other purposes connected with or ancillary to its railway undertaking.\n(2) Network Rail shall not under the powers of this Order acquire compulsorily any interest in the land delineated on the deposited plans and thereon numbered—\n(a) 109b, 159b, 159c, 210, 211, 212, 213 and 214 in the borough of Tamworth and 176a, 177, 178a, 179, 203a and 203b in the district of Lichfield; and\n(b) 160, 161, 197c, 200a, 202a, 202b, 202c, 202d, 202e, 203a, 205a, 205b, 206a, 239a and 240 in the borough of Tamworth and 176c, 178d and 203d in the district of Lichfield,\nexcept that Network Rail may enter upon and take temporary possession of the land specified in article 36(3) in accordance with that provision.\n(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2), Network Rail may, pursuant to article 24, compulsorily acquire easements or other rights over the land described in paragraph (2)(b).\n(4) This article is subject to articles 26, 28(9) and 38.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/389/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:32:47.112582+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."
}