Article 23 Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land compulsorily or to take land temporarilyI1

The applicable period for the purposes of section 4 (time limit for giving notice to treat) of the 1965 Act and section 5A (time limit for general vesting declaration) of the 1981 Act (as modified by this Order) is the period of seven years beginning on the day on which the Order is made.

The authority conferred by article 31 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised project) ceases at the end of the period referred to in sub-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.