Commentary on provisions of the Act Reinstatement and environmental works Section 49: Compulsory acquisition of land for regeneration or relocation
Subsections (1) and (2) enable the Secretary of State to acquire land compulsorily to relocate the whole or part of an undertaking (defined by subsection (8) to include a business or facility) where, as a result of the exercise of any of the powers of the Act, the former site of the undertaking or part of it is no longer reasonably capable of being used for the undertaking.
	Under subsection (3) the powers of compulsory purchase under this section are exercisable by means of a compulsory purchase order to which the usual procedure under the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 is to apply.
	Subsection (4) provides that specified provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, which apply in relation to compulsory acquisition or appropriation under Part 9 of that Act, will apply to a compulsory acquisition under this section subject to modifications to make them apt for such an acquisition.
	Subsection (5) applies certain of those provisions to acquisitions by the Secretary of State by agreement, which are made for a purpose falling within subsection (4)(b) and (c).
	Subsections (6) and (7) provide that the power of compulsory acquisition under the section includes power to acquire or create easements or other rights over land. The same modifications of compulsory purchase legislation apply to the acquisition or creation of such rights as where rights are acquired or created by local authorities compulsorily under Part 9 of the 1990 Act.