Section 109: Loss payments: supplementary
144.Section 109 inserts sections 33E to 33K into the Land Compensation Act 1973. It sets out the supplementary provisions required to operate the loss payment scheme, covering: the arrangements for making a claim; who can make a claim if the person who is entitled to do so is insolvent or dies; situations of dual entitlement to both an occupier’s loss payment in respect of agricultural land and a payment by virtue of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 (which deals with additional payments consequent on compulsory acquisition of agricultural holding); date of payment by acquiring authorities, advances of payment and interest and acquisitions by agreement between an authority and a person entitled to a loss payment.
145.The Secretary of State may make regulations to amend any of the figures or percentages specified in the newly inserted sections of the 1973 Act. For any changes to percentages or to amounts not based on changes in the value of money or land, the regulations would be subject to the affirmative resolution procedure in Parliament.
