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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forth-crossing-act-2011/section-39",
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  "legislation": "asp/2011/2",
  "legislation_title": "Forth Crossing Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forth-crossing-act-2011",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Advance entry on land to be acquired",
  "text": "Ministers may enter and take possession of any land (or any part of any land) in respect of which—\n(a) a notice to treat has been served in accordance with section 30, or\n(b) a general vesting declaration has been served in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 15 to the 1997 Act (as applied by section 35).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 39 in force at 3.2.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/38, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/2/section/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:13.784420+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."
}