{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/section-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/section-90.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/34",
  "legislation_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025",
  "path": "section/90",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Compulsory purchase powers: Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may acquire land compulsorily if the Secretary of State requires the land for remedial action purposes.\n(2) In subsection (1), “remedial action purposes” means purposes connected with the taking by the Secretary of State or another public authority of—\n(a) a conservation measure as mentioned in section 70(4)(a), or\n(b) any other measure to improve the conservation status of an identified environmental feature as mentioned in section 70(4)(b).\n(3) The provisions of section 89(3) to (9) and Schedule 4 apply in relation to (or to matters connected with) the compulsory acquisition of land by the Secretary of State under subsection (1) as they apply in relation to (or to matters connected with) the compulsory acquisition of land by Natural England under section 89(1).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 90 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 118(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 90 in force at 18.2.2026 by S.I. 2025/1370, reg. 4(1)(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-04T03:49:26.153791+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."
}