Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land compulsorilyE+W+S
19.—(1) After the end of the period of seven years beginning on the day on which this Order is made—
(a)no notice to treat is to be served under Part 1 (which makes provision for compulsory purchase under the Acquisition of Land Act 1981) of the 1965 Act; and
(b)no declaration is to be executed under section 4 (execution of declaration) of the 1981 Act(1) as applied by article 22 (application of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 Act).
(2) The authority conferred by article 26 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised project) 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 land after the end of that period, if the land was entered and possession was taken before the end of that period.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 19 in force at 22.4.2022, see art. 1(2)
Section 4 was amended by sections 184 and 185 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 18 to, the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22).