{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2714",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Eccles Extension) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996",
  "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 land 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 land 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 article 29(8) below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2714/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:17.409589+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."
}