Power to occupy land temporarily
11 Power to occupy land temporarily
Where an acquiring authority holds an interest in land (in this section called the authority land), an authorised person may, with such other persons as are reasonably necessary, enter upon other land (in this section called the neighbouring land) being land within a distance of 500 metres from the nearest boundary of the authority land, and may temporarily occupy the neighbouring land for so long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes of any works connected with the carrying out of a public purpose.
Subsection (1) does not apply to neighbouring land:
that is a garden, orchard or plantation attached to, or belonging to, a house;
that is a park, planted walk or avenue or ground ornamentally planted; or
that is less than 500 metres from a dwelling‑house of the occupier of the neighbouring land.
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