Commentary on provisions of the Act Part 2: Temporary possession for maintenance of works Right to enter upon and take possession of land
Paragraph 7 allows the nominated undertaker, during the maintenance period for any work (defined as the period beginning when the work is completed and ending five years after the date on which the work is brought into general use), to enter upon and take possession of land within the Act limits and within 20 metres of any work within Schedule 1, and to construct temporary works, if reasonably required for maintaining the work.
	This power does not extend to any house or garden, any other structure which is occupied or land where the power of compulsory acquisition under section 4(1) is restricted to the acquisition of rights, subsoil or under-surface of land, or both subsoil and under-surface and rights of passage, or the imposition of restrictive covenants (sub-paragraph 2).