Part 2: Compulsory Purchase Etc Chapter 2: Other provisions relating to compulsory purchase Section 34: Time limit for confirmation notices
Where a compulsory purchase order is confirmed by the confirming authority (the authority with the power to authorise the acquiring authority’s compulsory acquisition), the acquiring authority is required to serve a confirmation notice upon every owner, tenant and occupier, to affix a confirmation notice on or near the land comprised in the compulsory purchase order, and to publish a confirmation notice in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality in which that land is situated.
	This section amends section 15 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 by introducing a six-week statutory time limit for issue of the confirmation notices unless a longer period is agreed in writing between the acquiring authority and the confirming authority. It also provides for the confirming authority to issue the confirmation notices, and recover the costs of doing so, where an acquiring authority fails to do so.
	This section extends and applies to England and Wales only.