{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-west-coast-main-line-order-2003/article-34",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1075",
  "legislation_title": "The Network Rail (West Coast Main Line) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-west-coast-main-line-order-2003",
  "path": "article/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition",
  "text": "(1) No notice to treat shall be served under Part I of the 1965 Act, as applied to the acquisition of land under article 25 after the end of the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force.\n(2) The power conferred by article 30 to enter upon and take temporary possession of land shall cease at the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (1); but this paragraph shall not prevent Network Rail remaining in possession of land in accordance with article 30 after the end of that period, if the land was entered and possession of it was taken before the end of that period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1075/article/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:25:47.695647+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."
}