{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acquisition-of-land-act-1981/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acquisition-of-land-act-1981/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/67",
  "legislation_title": "Acquisition of Land Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acquisition-of-land-act-1981",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Procedure for authorisation.",
  "text": "(1) The authorisation of a compulsory purchase shall be conferred by an order (in this Act called a “compulsory purchase order”).\n(2) A compulsory purchase order authorising a compulsory purchase by an authority other than a Minister is to be—\n(a) made by that authority,\n(b) submitted to the confirming authority, and\n(c) confirmed in accordance with Part 2 of this Act.\n(3) A compulsory purchase order authorising a compulsory purchase by a Minister shall be made by the Minister in accordance with Schedule 1 to this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2(2) substituted (6.4.2018 for specified purposes, 6.4.2019 in so far as not already in force) by Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22), ss. 181(3), 216(3); S.I. 2018/251, reg. 4(b) (with reg. 5); S.I. 2019/427, reg. 3 (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 2 excluded by 1975 c. 70, Sch. 4 para. 1(2) (as substituted (1.4.2006) by The Welsh Development Agency (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3226), arts. 1(2), 7, Sch. 1 para. 33(1) (with art. 3(1)))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/67/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:37.803294+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}