PART 3ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

Supplementary

Time limit for exercise of powers of acquisition

16.  After the end of the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force—

(a)no notice to treat is to be served under Part 1 of the 1965 Act as applied to the acquisition of land by article 9 (application of Part 1 of the 1965 Act); and

(b)no declaration is to be executed under section 4 (execution of declaration) of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981(1) as applied by article 10 (application of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981).