PART 5ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land compulsorily

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

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

(b)no declaration is to be executed under section 4(1) (execution of declaration) of the 1981 Act as applied by article 33 (application and modification of the 1981 Act).

(2) The authority conferred by article 35 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised development) ceases either at the end of the period referred to in paragraph (1) or at the end of the period as stated in article 35(4), whichever is the longer, save 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(2) (time limit for giving notice to treat) of the 1965 Act and section 5A(3) (time limit for general vesting declaration) of the 1981 Act (as modified by this Order) is the period of five years beginning on the day on which the Order is made.