SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13 Minor and Consequential Amendments

The M1Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973

Annotations:
Marginal Citations

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1

In section 27 of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 (right to home loss payment where person displaced from dwelling), subsection (1) shall be amended as follows :—

X1a

in paragraph (c) after the words “the carrying out of there shall be inserted the words “any improvement to the dwelling or ofF1. . .

X2b

for the words “the acquiring authority to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—

i

where paragraph (a) above applies, the acquiring authority ;

ii

where paragraph (b) above applies, the authority who made the order, passed the resolution or accepted the undertaking ;

iii

where paragraph (c) above applies, the authority carrying out the improvement or redevelopment ; and

iv

where paragraph (d) above applies, the housing association carrying out the improvement or redvelopment.

X22

After subsection (3) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection :—

3A

For the purposes of this section a person shall not be treated as displaced from a dwelling in consequence of the carrying out of any improvement to the dwelling unless he is permanently displaced from it in consequence of of the carrying out of the improvement in question.

X23

In subsection (7) of that section the words “and “redevelopment includes a change of use shall be omitted and at the end of that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection :—

7A

In this section

“improvement includes alteration and enlargement; and

“redevelopment includes a change of use.