PART 5POWERS OF ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land compulsorily

27.—(1) After the end of the period of 8 years beginning with the day on which this Order is made—

(a)no notice to treat is to be served under Part 1 of the 1965 Act as modified by this Order; and

(b)no declaration is to be executed under section 4 (execution of declaration) of the 1981 Act as applied by article 31 (application of the 1981 Act),

in relation to the Order land for the purposes of this Order.

(2) The authority conferred by article 35 (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.