PART 4COMPULSORY ACQUISITION

Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land and rights compulsorily

article 25 + 25.—(1) After the end of the period of 5 years beginning on the day on which this Order is made—

article 25 1 a + (a)no notice to treat may be served under Part 1 (compulsory purchase under Acquisition of Land Act 1946) of the 1965 Act; and

article 25 1 b + (b)no declaration may be executed under section 4 (execution of declaration) of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 as applied by article 28 (application of the 1981 Act).

(2) The authority conferred by article 32 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised development) ceases at the end of the period referred to in paragraph (1), except that nothing in this paragraph prevents the undertaker remaining in possession of land after the end of that period, if the land was entered and possession was taken before the end of that period.

(3) The applicable period for the purposes of section 4 of the 1965 Act (time limit for giving notice to treat) and section 5A of the 1981 Act (time limit for general vesting declaration) (as modified by this Order) is the period of five years beginning on the day on which this Order is made.