# The Norfolk Boreas Offshore Wind Farm Order 2021, Paragraph 16: Acquisition of land

Extent: E+W

(1) Regardless of any provision in this Order or anything shown on the land plans or contained in the book of reference to the Order, the promoter may not acquire any land interest or apparatus or override any easement and/or other interest of National Grid otherwise than by agreement, such agreement not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(2) As a condition of agreement between the parties in paragraph 16(1), prior to the carrying out of any part of the authorised works (or in such other timeframe as may be agreed between the undertaker and the promoter) that are subject to the requirements of this Part that will cause any conflict with or breach the terms of any easement and/or other legal or land interest of the undertaker and/or affects the provisions of any enactment or agreement regulating the relations between the undertaker and the promoter in respect of any apparatus laid or erected in land belonging to or secured by the promoter, the promoter must as the undertaker reasonably and necessarily requires enter into such deeds of consent upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed between the undertaker and the promoter acting reasonably and which must be no less favourable on the whole to the undertaker unless otherwise agreed by the undertaker, and it will be the responsibility of the promoter to procure and/or secure the consent and entering into of such deeds and variations by all other third parties with an interest in the land at that time who are affected by such authorised works.
(3) The promoter and the undertaker agree that where there is any inconsistency or duplication between the provisions set out in this Part relating to the relocation and/or removal of apparatus/including but not limited to the payment of costs and expenses relating to such relocation and/or removal of apparatus) and the provisions of any existing easement, rights, agreements and licences granted, used, enjoyed or exercised by the undertaker and/or other enactments relied upon by the undertaker as of right or other use in relation to the apparatus, then the provisions in this Schedule prevail.
(4) Any agreement or consent granted by the undertaker under paragraph 19 or 20 or any other paragraph of this Part, must not be taken to constitute agreement under sub-paragraph 16(1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1414/schedule/17/paragraph/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/norfolk-boreas-offshore-wind-farm-order-2021/schedule-17/paragraph-16
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