This section applies where the application includes a request for an order granting development consent to authorise compulsory acquisition of land or of an interest in or right over land (a "compulsory acquisition request").
The Examining authority must fix, and cause each affected person to be informed of, the deadline by which an affected person must notify the Secretary of State that the person wishes a compulsory acquisition hearing to be held.
If the Secretary of State receives notification from at least one affected person before the deadline, the Examining authority must cause a compulsory acquisition hearing to be held.
At a compulsory acquisition hearing, the following are entitled (subject to the Examining authority's powers of control over the conduct of the hearing) to make oral representations about the compulsory acquisition request—
A person is an "affected person" for the purposes of this section if the person's name has been given to the Secretary of State in a notice under section 59.