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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/east-anglia-three-offshore-wind-farm-order-2017/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/826",
  "legislation_title": "The East Anglia THREE Offshore Wind Farm Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/east-anglia-three-offshore-wind-farm-order-2017",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land compulsorily",
  "text": "(1) After the end of the period of 5 years beginning on the day on which this Order is made—\n(a) no notice to treat may be served under Part 1 of the 1965 Act; and\n(b) no declaration may be executed under section 4 of the 1981 Act as applied by article 19 (application of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981).\n(2) The authority conferred by article 23 (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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 16 in force at 29.8.2017, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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) subject to transitional provisions specified in S.I. 2017/75."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/826/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:55.389095+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."
}