Housing Act 1957

7 (1) For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, a house which might have been the subject of a demolition order but which has, without the making of such an order, been vacated and demolished in pursuance of an undertaking for its demolition given to the local authority shall be deemed to have been vacated in pursuance of a demolition order made and served at the date when the undertaking was given.

(2) In this Part of this Schedule, except where the context otherwise requires,—

• " compensation ", in relation to compulsory purchase, means the compensation payable in respect thereof apart from any payment under section thirty-one or thirty-five of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1954,

• " full compulsory purchase value ", in relation to any interest in a house, means the compensation payable in respect of the compulsory purchase of that interest if that compensation fell to be assessed in accordance with subsections (1) and (4) of section fifty-nine of this Act and paragraph 2 of Part III of the Third Schedule to this Act had not been passed and, in the case of a house subject to a clearance order, demolition order or closing order, if the making of that order were a service of the notice to treat,

• " house " includes any building constructed or adapted wholly or partly as, or for the purposes of, a dwelling,

• " interest " in a house does not include the interest of a tenant for a year or any less period than a year or of a tenant whose sole right to possession is under the Rent Acts,

• " site value ", in relation to the compulsory purchase of a house, means compensation in respect thereof assessed in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) or (3) of section fifty-nine of this Act (or under the corresponding provisions applicable to any compulsory purchase under Part II of this Act).

(3) In this Part of this Schedule references to a demolition order do not include such an order in respect of a house already subject to a closing order so far as it affects any part of the house in relation to which a payment under section thirty of this Act or under this Schedule has fallen to be made in respect of the closing order.