{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-airport-extension-order-1997/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-airport-extension-order-1997/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1266",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Airport Extension) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-airport-extension-order-1997",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Power to acquire land",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker may acquire compulsorily—\n(a) so much of the land shown on the Order plans within the limits of deviation for the scheduled works shown on those plans and described in the book of reference as may be required for the purposes of the authorised works, and\n(b) so much of the land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 2 to this Order (being land shown on the Order plans and described in the book of reference) as may be required for the purpose specified in relation to that land in column (3) of that Schedule;\nand may use any land so acquired for those purposes or for any other purposes connected with or ancillary to its transit system undertaking.\n(2) This article is subject to articles 27(2), 30(8), 37(3) and 38(3) below.\n(3) The undertaker shall not under the powers of this Order acquire compulsorily any interest in the land numbered 84, 97, 137, 139, 157, 158, 159, 365, 368, 371 and 373 in the book of reference.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1266/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:08:38.018925+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."
}