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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wrexham-gas-fired-generating-station-order-2017/article-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/766",
  "legislation_title": "The Wrexham Gas Fired Generating Station Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wrexham-gas-fired-generating-station-order-2017",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Compulsory acquisition of rights etc",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker may acquire compulsorily the existing rights over land and create and acquire compulsorily the new rights and impose the restrictions described in the book of reference and shown on the land plans.\n(2) Subject to section 8 of the 1965 Act (provisions as to divided land) where the undertaker creates or acquires a right over land or imposes a restriction under paragraph (1), the undertaker is not required to acquire a greater interest in that land.\n(3) Schedule 7 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights and imposition of new restrictions) has effect for the purpose of modifying the enactments relating to compensation and the provisions of the 1965 Act in their application in relation to the compulsory acquisition under this article of a right over land by the creation of a new right or the imposition of a restriction.\n(4) In any case where the creation and acquisition of new rights or the imposition of a restriction under paragraph (1) is required for the purposes of diverting, replacing or protecting the apparatus of a statutory undertaker, the undertaker may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, transfer the power to create and acquire such rights or impose such restrictions to the statutory undertaker in question.\n(5) The exercise by a statutory undertaker of any power in accordance with a transfer under paragraph (4) is subject to the same restrictions, liabilities and obligations as would apply under this Order if that power were exercised by the undertaker.\n(6) Subject to the modifications set out in Schedule 7 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights and imposition of new restrictions) the enactments for the time being in force with respect to compensation for the compulsory purchase of land are to apply in the case of a compulsory acquisition under this Order in respect of a right by the creation of a new right or imposition of a restriction as they apply to the compulsory purchase of land and interests in land.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 18 in force at 8.8.2017, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/766/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:09:28.394492+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."
}