(2) The authority conferred by article 31 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorise  development) must cease at the end of the period referred to in paragraph (1), save that nothing in  this paragraph prevents the undertaker remaining in possession of land after the end of that period,  if the land was entered and possession was taken before the end of that period.  24. —(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the undertaker may acquire compulsorily such rights over the  Order land or impose such restrictive covenants affecting the land as may be required for any  purpose for which that land may be acquired under article 22 (compulsory acquisition of land), by  creating them as well as by acquiring rights already in existence.  (2) In the case of the Order land specified in column (1) of the table in Schedule 7 (land in  which only new rights etc. may be acquired) the undertaker’s powers of compulsory acquisition  are limited to the acquisition of existing rights and the benefit of restrictive covenants over land  and the creation and acquisition of such new rights and the imposition of such new restrictive  covenants as are specified in column (2) of the table in that Schedule.  (3) Subject to section 8 (other provisions as to divided land) and schedule 2A (counter-notice  requiring purchase of land not in notice to treat) of the 1965 Act (as substituted by paragraph 5(8)  of Schedule 8 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation of  new rights and imposition of new restrictive covenants)) and section 12 (divided land) of the 1981  Act, where the undertaker creates or acquires a right over land or the benefit of a restrictive  covenant, under paragraph (1) or (2), the undertaker is not required to acquire a greater interest in  that land.  (4) Schedule 8 (modification of compensation and compulsory purchase enactments for creation  of new rights and imposition of new restrictive covenants) has effect for the purpose of modifying  the enactments relating to compensation and the provisions of the 1965 Act in their application in  relation to the compulsory acquisition under this article of a right over land by the creation of a  new right or the imposition of a restrictive covenant.  (5) In any case where the acquisition of new rights or the imposition of restrictive covenants  under paragraph (1) or (2) is required for the purposes of diverting, replacing or protecting the  apparatus of a statutory undertaker, the undertaker may, with the consent of the Secretary of State,  transfer the power to create and acquire such rights or impose such restrictive covenants to the  statutory undertaker in question.  (6) The exercise by a statutory undertaker of any power in accordance with a transfer under  paragraph (5) is subject to the same restrictions, liabilities and obligations as would apply under  this Order if that power were exercised by the undertaker.  (7) Subject to the modifications set out in Schedule 8 the enactments for the time being in force  with respect to compensation for the compulsory purchase of land are to apply in the case of a  compulsory acquisition under this Order in respect of a right by the creation of a new right or  imposition of a restrictive covenant as they apply to the compulsory purchase of land and interests  in land.  25. —(1) The undertaker may acquire compulsorily so much of, or such rights in, the subsoil of  the land referred to in paragraph (1) of article 22 (compulsory acquisition of land) and paragraphs  (1) and (2) of article 24 (compulsory acquisition of rights) as may be required for any purpose for  which that land or rights over land may be created or acquired under that provision instead of  acquiring the whole of the land.  (2) Where the undertaker acquires any part of, or rights in, the subsoil of land under paragraph  (1), the undertaker is not required to acquire an interest in any other part of the land.  18 Acquisition of subsoil only  Compulsory acquisition of rights  (b) no declaration may be executed under section 4 (execution of declaration) of the 1981  Act as applied by article 28 (application of the 1981 Act). 