The Ashton Vale to Temple Meads and Bristol City Centre Rapid Transit Order 2013

Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition

35.—(1) After the end of the time limit—

(a) no notice to treat is to be served under Part 1 of the 1965 Act, as applied to the acquisition of land by article 24 (application of Part 1 of the 1965 Act); and

(b) no declaration is to be executed under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981, as applied to this Order by article 25 (application of Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981).

(2) The powers conferred by article 28 (temporary use of land for construction of works) will cease at the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (1), but nothing in this paragraph prevents the promoter from remaining in possession of land after the end of that period, if the land was entered and possession of it was taken before the end of that period.

(3) In this article “the time limit” means—

(a) In relation to land comprised in plots numbered 09/03, 09/08 to 09/11 and 09/22, the period of 2 years beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force; and

(b) In all other cases, the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force.