Section 197: Compensation for compulsory purchase of historic buildings and of land in clearance areas

Town and Country Planning Act 1971 · 1971 c.78

Part IX: Provisions Enabling Owner to Require Purchase of his Interest

197

Where an interest in land is acquired in pursuance of a blight notice and the interest is one

(a) in respect of which a compulsory purchase order is in force under section 1 of the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 (as applied by section 114 of this Act) containing a direction for minimum compensation under section 117 of this Act;

(b) in respect of which a compulsory purchase order is in force under Part III of the Housing Act 1957;

the compensation payable for the acquisition shall, in a case falling within paragraph (a) of this section, be assessed in accordance with the direction mentioned in that paragraph and, in a case falling with paragraph (b) of this section, be assessed in accordance with Part III of the said Act of 1957, in either case as if the notice to treat deemed to have been served in respect of the interest under section 196 of this Act had been served in pursuance of the compulsory purchase order.

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