{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acquisition-of-land-act-1981/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acquisition-of-land-act-1981/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/67",
  "legislation_title": "Acquisition of Land Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acquisition-of-land-act-1981",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Acquisition of rights over land by the creation of new rights.",
  "text": "Schedule 3 to this Act applies to the compulsory acquisition under this Act of rights over land by the creation of new rights by virtue of—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(aa) section 21A of the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975,\n(b) section 13(1) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976,\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) section 142(4) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980,\n(e) section 250 of the Highways Act 1980.\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(g) paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Gas Act 1986.\n(h) paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Electricity Act 1989.\n(i) paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 4 to the Communications Act 2003.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 28(a) repealed by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1), Sch. 7 para. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 28(aa) inserted (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 128, Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 18 (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 28(c) repealed (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 152, Sch. 18 Pt. IV (with ss. 137(1)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 28(f) repealed (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 19(1) Note 1 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 28(g) inserted by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1), Sch. 7 para. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 28(h) inserted by Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), ss. 112(1)(3), Sch. 16 para. 28, Sch. 17 paras. 33, 35(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 28(i) inserted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 58(2) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1976 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1980 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/67/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:44.407661+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."
}