This section applies to the court’s power to order a tenant to pay compensation to a landlord under section 34B (compensation for exercise of code rights).
Depending on the circumstances, the power of the court to order the payment of compensation for damage or loss includes power to order payment for—
For the purposes of assessing such compensation for diminution in the value of land, rules (2) to (4) set out in section 5 of the Land Compensation Act 1961 apply with any necessary modifications as they apply for the purposes of assessing compensation for the compulsory purchase of any interest in land.
Section 10(1) to (3) of the Land Compensation Act 1973 (compensation in respect of mortgages, trusts of land and settlements) applies in relation to such compensation for diminution in the value of land as it applies in relation to compensation under Part 1 of that Act.
Where a landlord has a claim for compensation to which this section applies and a claim for compensation under any other provision of this Act, or any provision of the electronic communications code, in respect of the same loss, the compensation payable to the landlord must not exceed the amount of the landlord’s loss.
In this section “the electronic communications code” means the code set out in Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003.