Part 4Taking title to land
General vesting declarations
35General vesting declarations
1
Ministers may vest in themselves by a general vesting declaration any land which they are authorised to acquire compulsorily under section 22.
2
Schedule 15 to the 1997 Act accordingly applies to the compulsory acquisition of land under section 22, with the following modifications—
a
this Act is to be treated as a compulsory purchase order,
b
Ministers are the “acquiring authority”,
c
section 36 of this Act applies instead of paragraph 2, and
d
in the definition of land in paragraph 39, “relevant enactments” means this Act.