Commentary on provisions of the Act Extinction and exclusion of rights over land Section 13: Extinction of rights of statutory undertakers
Subsection (1) concerns the rights of statutory undertakers over land acquired by the Secretary of State which is required for the purposes of the works authorised by the Act. The nominated undertaker may extinguish these rights as if the land had been acquired under Part 9 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Sections 271 to 273 of the 1990 Act provide a process by which any apparatus of a statutory undertaker on such land may be removed and related rights over the land extinguished.
	Subsections (2) to (4) make modifications to sections 271 to 273 (and related provisions) of the 1990 Act. The modifications are needed because the compulsory purchase power under section 4(1) is vested in the Secretary of State and not the nominated undertaker, so the nominated undertaker will not be the acquiring authority for the purposes of those provisions.