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Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land compulsorily or use land temporarily

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

(a)no notice to treat may be served under Part 1 of the 1965 Act; and

(b)no declaration may be executed under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981(1) as applied by article 23 (application of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981).

(2) The authority conferred by article 26 (temporary use of land for construction of authorised development) ceases at the end of the period referred to in paragraph (1), save that, subject to article 26(3) and article 26(5), 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.

(1)

1981 c.66, Sections 2 and 6 and subsection (6) of section 11 have been amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 52 of Schedule 2 to, the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c.11). Section 3 has been amended by section 34 of, and paragraph 37 of part 3 of Schedule 5 to, the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c.7). Section 10, subsection (4) of section 11 and paragraphs 4, 8 and 9 of Schedule 1 have been amended by article 5 of, paragraphs 145 – 148 of Schedule 1 to, and Schedule 5 to, the Transfer of Tribunal Functions (Lands Tribunal and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1307). Section 15 and Schedule 2 have been amended by section 161 of, and paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 19 to, the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c.28) and sections 56 and 321 of, paragraph 33 of Schedule 8 to, and Schedule 16 to the Housing Regeneration Act 2008 (c.17). Paragraphs 1 and 3 have also been amended by section 76 of, and paragraph 12 of part II of Schedule 9 to, the Housing Act 1988 (c.50). Schedule 3 was amended by section 277 of, and Schedule 9 to, the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c.51). There are other amendments to this Act that are not relevant to this Order.