{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/knottingley-power-plant-order-2015/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/knottingley-power-plant-order-2015/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/680",
  "legislation_title": "The Knottingley Power Plant Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/knottingley-power-plant-order-2015",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land and rights 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 Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 as applied by article 23 (application of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981).\n(2) The authority conferred by article 27 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised development) 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",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 20 in force at 1.4.2015, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c.66. Sections 2, 6 and 11 were amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 52 of Schedule 2 to, the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c.11). There are other amendments to the 1981 Act which are not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/680/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:42:46.530680+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."
}