PART 5POWERS OF ACQUISITION

Special Category Land

article 37 + 37.—(1) On the exercise by the undertaker of the relevant Order powers to acquire rights or impose restrictive covenants over the special category land so much of the special category land as is required for the purposes of the exercise by the undertaker of those rights or enforcement of those restrictive covenants is discharged from all rights, trusts and incidents to which it was previously subject so far as their continuance would be inconsistent with the exercise of the relevant Order powers.

(2) In this article—

article 37 2 a + (a)term the relevant order powers + “the relevant Order powers” means powers exercisable over the special category land by the undertaker under article 24 (compulsory acquisition of rights and imposition of restrictive covenants); and

article 37 2 b + (b)term the special category land + “the special category land” means the land identified as forming part of a common, open space, or fuel or field allotment in the book of reference and on the special category land plans.