116Amendment of section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965
In section 4 of the [1965 c. 56.] Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (time limits for exercising powers under compulsory purchase orders) there shall be added at the end, the following paragraph:—
“For the purposes of this section no account shall be taken of any period during which an authority are, by virtue of section 110, 113, or 114 of the Housing Act 1974 (which relate among other things to unfit buildings in clearance or conservation areas) prevented from serving notice to treat under section 5 of this Act.”,
and the same amendment shall be made to section 116 of the [1845 c. 19.] Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 with the substitution for the reference to section 5 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 of a reference to section 17 of the said Act of 1845.