SCHEDULE 8Modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of new rights

Compensation enactments

schedule 8 paragraph 2 + 2.  Without limitation on the scope of paragraph 1, the 1961 Act has effect subject to the following modification—

For section (5A) (relevant valuation date) substitute—

“(5A) If—

(a)the acquiring authority enters on land for the purposes of exercising a right in pursuance of a notice of entry under section 11(1) of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (as modified by paragraph 4(6) of Schedule 8 to the Viking CCS Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Order 2025);

(b)the acquiring authority is subsequently required by a determination under paragraph 12 of Schedule 2A to the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (as substituted by paragraph 4(9) of Schedule 8 to the Viking CCS Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Order 2025) to acquire an interest in the land; and

(c)the acquiring authority enters on and takes possession of that land,

the authority is deemed for the purposes of sub-section (3)(a) to have entered on that land when it entered on that land for the purpose of exercising that right.”.