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78 Supplementary provisions as to vesting, acquisition and compensation.E+W
(1)The M1Acquisition of Land Act 1981, as applied by section 77 above, shall have effect subject to the modifications in Part I of Schedule 10 to this Act.
(2)The supplementary provisions in Parts II and III of that Schedule shall have effect, being,—
(a)as to those in Part II, provisions about land vested in or acquired by a housing action trust under this Part of this Act; and
(b)as to those in Part III, provisions about the acquisition by a housing action trust of rights over land under section 77(5) above.
(3)In Schedule 1 to the M2Land Compensation Act 1961 (actual or prospective development which is not to be taken into account in assessing compensation in certain cases or the effect of which is to reduce compensation in certain cases of adjacent land in the same ownership), the following paragraph shall be added after the paragraph 4A inserted by section 145 of the M3Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980:
“4BWhere any of the relevant land forms part of a housing action trust area established under Part III of the Housing Act 1988.
Development of any land other than the relevant land in the course of the development or re-development of the area as a housing action trust area.”
(4)In section 6 of the Land Compensation Act 1961 (disregard of actual or prospective development in certain cases) in subsection (1)(b) for “4A” there shall be substituted “4B”.
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