PART 5 E+W+SPOWERS OF ACQUISITION

Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land and rights compulsorily E+W+S

29.—(1) After the end of the period of 5 years beginning on the day on which the Order comes into force—

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

(b) no declaration is to be executed under section 4(1) (execution of declaration) of the 1981 Act as applied by article 31 (application of the 1981 Act).

(2) The authority conferred by article 34 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised development) ceases at the end of the period referred to in paragraph (1), except that nothing in this paragraph prevents the undertaker remaining in possession of the land after the end of that period, if the land was entered and possession taken before the end of that period.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 29 in force at 30.10.2019, see art. 1

(1)

Section 4 was amended by sections 184, 185 and 199(2) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 18 to, the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22).