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Section 5A: Power to require information

Acquisition of Land Act 1981 · 1981 c. 67View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: General

This section applies to information about land in relation to which an acquiring authority is entitled to exercise a power of compulsory purchase.

The acquiring authority may serve a notice on a person mentioned in subsection (4) requiring him to give to the authority in writing the following information—

the name and address of any person he believes to be an owner, lessee, tenant (whatever the tenancy period) or occupier of the land;
the name and address of any person he believes to have an interest in the land.

The power in subsection (2) is exercisable for the purpose of enabling the acquiring authority to acquire the land.

The persons are—

the occupier of the land;
any person who has an interest in the land either as freeholder, mortgagee or lessee;
any person who directly or indirectly receives rent for the land;
any person who, in pursuance of an agreement between himself and a person interested in the land, is authorised to manage the land or to arrange for the letting of it.

The notice must specify the period within which the information must be given to the acquiring authority (being a period of not less than 14 days beginning with the day on which the notice is served).

The notice must also specify or describe—

the land,
the compulsory purchase power, and
the enactment which confers the power.

The notice must be in writing.

Section 6(4) does not apply to notices to be served under this section.

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