# Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (REPEALED), Article 10: Acquisition of land

Extent: N.I.

(1) The Ministry may, for any purpose in connection with the performance of any of its functions under this Order—
(a) by agreement acquire or take on lease any land or acquire land compulsorily;
(b) dispose of any land so acquired or taken on lease.
(2) Where the Ministry in exercise of the power conferred on it by paragraph (1) desires to acquire any land otherwise than by agreement, the Ministry may make an order (in this Article referred to as a vesting order) vesting the land in the Ministry.
(3) Schedule 6 to the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 1972 c.9 shall, subject to the modifications specified in Schedule 2, apply for the purposes of the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under this Article in the same manner as it applies to the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order made under that Act.
(4) The power to make a vesting order in respect of land—
(a) which is the property of a public body which has power under any transferred provision to acquire land compulsorily; or
(b) which is declared by or under any transferred provision to be inalienable;
shall not, where representations objecting to the proposal to make the order have been duly made by the owner of the land and have not been withdrawn, be exercised in relation to that land unless the proposal to make the vesting order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
(5) Nothing in this Article shall authorise the acquisition without the consent of the Ministry of Finance of any land on or in which there is, to the knowledge of the Ministry, any historic monument or archaeological object within the meaning of the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.
(6) Section 5 of the Stormont Regulation and Government Property Act (Northern Ireland) 1933 1933 c.6 shall not affect the disposal of any land acquired or taken on lease under this Article.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1973/70/article/10 (the official version)
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