PART 5Powers of acquisition

Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land compulsorily, etc.

24.—(1) After 25th August 2022—

(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 27 (application of Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981).

(2) The authority conferred by article 29 (temporary use of land for carrying out authorised project) ceases at the end of 25th August 2022, but nothing in this paragraph prevents the undertaker remaining in possession of land after that date, if the land was entered, and possession taken, on or before 25th August 2022.