Part 9: Compulsory Purchase Procedure Section 185: Time limits for implementation Effect
Subsection (1) inserts new section 13D (Power to extend time to implementation) into the Acquisition of Land Act 1981. This gives confirming authorities a new power to extend the time limit for implementing a CPO (beyond the current 3 years) for both Ministerial and non-Ministerial CPOs. It will be for the confirming authority to decide whether a longer period is justified in the circumstances and what that longer period should be, if any.
	Subsections (2), (3) and (4) make the required corresponding changes to sections 4 and 4A of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, sections 5A and 5B of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 and section 582 of the Housing Act 1985.
Example 1: Staged development
An acquiring authority may wish to bring forward a CPO for the whole of a staged development. The later stages of the development may not have been planned for delivery until more than three years from the operative date of the CPO.
Example 2: Earlier certainty of land assembly
An acquiring authority may make a CPO earlier in the delivery process to ensure it has certainty over land assembly knowing there is the possibility of conditional confirmation of a CPO. This may in term mean that the period between the CPO becoming operative and delivery of the scheme is longer.
Section 186: Agreement to vary vesting date