{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-act-1965/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-act-1965/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/56",
  "legislation_title": "Compulsory Purchase Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-act-1965",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Common land.",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 4 to this Act (which relates to common land) shall apply for the purposes of this Act.\n(2) The said Schedule and the other provisions of this Act relating to common land have effect—\n(a) subject to the provisions of the Inclosure Act 1852, the Inclosure Act 1854 and the Commonable Rights Compensation Act 1882 relating to the application of compensation money, and\n(b) subject to section 22 of the Commons Act 1899 (which restricts grants or inclosures of commons).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1852 c. 79."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1854 c. 97."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1882 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1899 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 modified (8.8.2017) by The Wrexham Gas Fired Generating Station Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/766), arts. 1, 23(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 1 modified (22.7.2020) by The Norfolk Vanguard Offshore Wind Farm Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/706), arts. 1, 23 (with arts. 41, 42, Sch. 16 para. 66)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/56/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:28.068288+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."
}