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TRANSPORT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 62

Powers of acquisition where railway diverted for road purposes.

62.[(1) Where the Department, in connection with the performance of its
functions under the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1980, acquires from
the Holding Company or the railway undertaking lands used or maintained by the
railway undertaking, the powers of the Department to acquire land by agreement
or compulsorily shall include power to acquire land for the purpose of
providing substituted sites or facilities for the Holding Company or the
railway undertaking, and, accordingly, the powers conferred by Article 53 of
and Schedule 4 to the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 shall be exercisable
as if the last-mentioned land were required in the exercise of functions under
that Order.]

(2) Where under subsection (1) land is acquired for the purpose of providing
substituted sites or facilities for the railway undertaking, the undertaking
may, notwithstanding anything in any other enactment, provide those
substituted sites or facilities.

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