PART 5 POWERS OF ACQUISITION

21 Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land compulsorily
1 After the end of the period of 5 years beginning on the day on which this Order is made—
(a) no notice to treat is to be served under Part 1 (compulsory purchase under Acquisition of Land Act of 1946) of the 1965 Act; and
(b) no declaration is to be executed under section 4 (execution of declaration) of the 1981 Act as applied by article 24 (application of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981).
2 The authority conferred by article 28 (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.