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Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002

Section 46 – Acquisition of land by agreement

116.This section, based on section 98 of the 1994 Act, gives Scottish Water power to acquire land, wherever situated, by agreement with third parties for the purposes of any of its functions, not just its core water and sewerage functions, or for the provision by others of a public water supply or public sewerage system (subsection (1)).

117.Subsection (2) provides that the provision in subsection (3) only applies for land acquired for the purposes of Scottish Water’s core functions. Subsection (3) provides for the incorporation into this section of the Lands Clauses Acts (with specified exceptions), and, as appropriate, sections of the Railway Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 (as originally enacted) and Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Water (Scotland) Act 1980 relating to the payment of compensation on land acquisition.

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