Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition
33.—(1) After the end of the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force—
(a)no notice to treat shall be served under Part I of the 1965 Act, as applied to the acquisition of land under article 23; and
(b)no declaration shall be executed under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981, as applied by article 24.
(2) The powers conferred by article 28 to enter upon and take temporary possession of land, shall cease at the end of the period of 5 years beginning on the day on which this Order comes into force, but this paragraph shall not prevent the undertaker remaining in possession of land in accordance with article 28 after the end of that period, if the land was entered and possession of it was taken before the end of that period.