8(1)At the end of section 16 of the [1981 c. 67.] Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (statutory undertakers' land excluded from compulsory purchase) there shall be added the following subsection—
“(3)In the preceding provisions of this section “statutory undertakers” include—
(a)a health service body, as defined in section 60(7) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; and
(b)a National Health Service trust established under Part I of that Act or the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;
but in relation to a health service body, as so defined, any reference in those provisions to land acquired or available for acquisition by the statutory undertakers shall be construed as a reference to land acquired or available for acquisition by the Secretary of State for use or occupation by that body”.
(2)In section 17 of that Act (local authority and statutory undertakers' land) at the end of subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(2A)Subsection (3) of section 16 above applies in relation to subsections (1) and (2) above as it applies in relation to the preceding provisions of that section.”