Compulsory Purchase Act 1965

[F1 Introduction E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2A inserted (3.2.2017) by Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22), s. 216(3), Sch. 17 para. 3; S.I. 2017/75, reg. 3(g) (with reg. 5)

1 (1) This Part applies where an acquiring authority— E+W

(a) serve a notice to treat in respect of part only of a house, building or factory,

(b) have not entered on and taken possession of the land to which the notice to treat relates, and

(c) have not executed a general vesting declaration under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 in respect of the land to which the notice to treat relates.

(2) But see section 2A of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (under which a compulsory purchase order can exclude from this Schedule land that is 9 metres or more below the surface).

2 E+W This Part does not apply by virtue of a notice to treat that is deemed to have been served in respect of part only of a house, building or factory under section 154(5) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (deemed notice to treat in relation to blighted land).

3 E+W In this Part—

• “additional land” means the part of the house, building, or factory not specified in the notice to treat;

• “house” includes any park or garden belonging to a house;

• “land proposed to be acquired” means the part of the house, building or factory specified in the notice to treat;

• “whole of the land” means the land proposed to be acquired and the additional land.]