The Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Act 2006 (Extension of Time for Land Acquisition) Order 2011

Made: 17th February 2011

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 21st February 2011

Coming into force: 1st April 2011

This Order is made on the application of the City of Edinburgh Council which is the authorised undertaker for the purposes of section41.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Act 2006 (Extension of Time for Land Acquisition) Order 2011 and comes into force on 1st April 2011.

Extension of time period in section 40(1) of the Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Act 2006

2

The period referred to in section40(1) of the Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Act 2006 is extended until 7th May 2016.

Signed

KEITH BROWN — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 17th February 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order is made under section41 of the Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Act 2006 (“the Act”) on the application of the City of Edinburgh Council as authorised undertaker for the purposes of sections23, 24 and 41 of the Act.

Section40(1) of the Act provides that the powers of the authorised undertaker for the compulsory acquisition of land under section23 and for the compulsory acquisition of servitudes or other heritable or moveable rights over land under section24 shall cease fiveyears from the date on which the Act came into force. The Act came into force on 8th May 2006. This Order provides that the period for the exercise of the powers of the authorised undertaker under sections23 and 24 of the Act is extended until 7th May 2016.

Footnotes

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