(1) Subject to
subsection (2) but otherwise in accordance with Part 9 of the
Land Administration Act 1997 , an energy operator may sell or otherwise deal
with any land, or any estate or interest in land, acquired by or vested in the
energy operator for the purposes of the performance of its functions where
—
(a) that
land, or that estate or interest, is no longer required for such purposes; or
(b) that
estate or interest is of a kind not considered by the energy operator to be
necessary or appropriate for a particular purpose, notwithstanding that the
land, or an estate or interest in the land, is required for such purposes.
(2) Where any such
land, estate or interest acquired by or vested in the energy operator was not
acquired by way of compulsory taking for any public work sections 187, 188,
189, 190, and 191 of the Land Administration Act 1997 shall not have effect
in relation thereto.
[Section 40 amended: No. 24 of 1986 s. 19; No. 89
of 1994 s. 12, 39 and 41; No. 31 of 1997 s. 26(8) and 142; No. 58 of 1999
s. 83(1) and (3).]