Schedule 5
Crossrail Bill
9:30 am
Tom Harris (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Glasgow South, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 1, in schedule 5, page 101, line 27, leave out paragraph 6 and insert—
‘6 Section 13 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (c. 56) (refusal to give possession to acquiring authority) applies for the purposes of this Schedule as if—
(a) references to the acquiring authority were references to the nominated undertaker,
(b) references to compensation payable to the person refusing to give possession were references to compensation payable under this Schedule, and
(c) in subsection (1) for “this Act” there were substituted “Schedule 5 to the Crossrail Act 2008”.’.
The amendment is purely technical and reflects a recent change to the law on the enforcement of compulsory purchase orders. The change means that High Court enforcement officers and the high sheriff of each county can enforce compulsory purchase orders in England and Wales. The amendment will apply that change to the enforcement of powers in the Bill to take temporary possession of land.