PART 3ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

Compensation

Supplementary

Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition

38.—(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 must be served under Part 1 of the 1965 Act, as applied to the acquisition of land by article 27 (application of Part 1 of the 1965 Act); and

(b)no declaration must be executed under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981, as applied to this Order by article 28 (application of Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981).

(2) The power conferred by article 32 (temporary use of land for construction of works) to enter upon and take temporary possession of land ceases at the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (1); but this paragraph does not prevent the undertaker from remaining in possession of land in accordance with article 32 after the end of that period, if the land was entered and possession of it was taken before the end of that period.