{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/edinburgh-tram-line-two-act-2006/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/edinburgh-tram-line-two-act-2006/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/6",
  "legislation_title": "Edinburgh Tram (Line Two) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/edinburgh-tram-line-two-act-2006",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition",
  "text": "(1) The powers of land acquisition in sections 23 (Power to acquire land) and 24 (Powers to acquire new rights) shall cease at the end of the period of five years beginning on the day of the coming into force of this Act.\n(2) Subsection (1) shall not prevent the authorised undertaker remaining in possession of land under section 26 (Temporary use of land for construction of works) after that date, if the land was entered and possession of it was taken on or before that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 40(1) extended (1.4.2011) by The Edinburgh Tram (Line Two) Act 2006 (Extension of Time for Land Acquisition) Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/127), arts. 1, 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/6/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:15.093208+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."
}