Section 17 Purchase of rights over land

In this section references to the purchase by the Company of new rights are references to the purchase of rights to be created in favour of the Company.

The Company may, for the purposes of constructing, maintaining, altering, renewing and using the works or for the purpose of doing any other thing necessary in connection with the works, purchase compulsorily such new rights as it may require over any of the land delineated on the deposited plan and described in the deposited book of reference instead of purchasing that land under section 16 (Purchase of land) of this Act.

The Act of 1965, as applied by this Act, shall have effect with the modifications necessary to make it apply to the compulsory purchase of new rights under subsection (2) above as it applies to the compulsory purchase of land so that, in appropriate contexts, references in the Act of 1965 to land are read as referring, or as including references, to the new rights or to land over which the new rights are, or are to be, exercisable, according to the requirements of the particular context.

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (3) above in relation to the purchase of new rights under subsection (2) above—