Valid from 31/10/2004
7(1)The Land Compensation Act 1973 is amended as follows.E+W+S
(2)In section 29 (home loss payments) after subsection (3A) there is inserted the following subsection—
“(3B)For the purposes of this section a person must not be treated as displaced from a dwelling in consequence only of the compulsory acquisition of part of a garden or yard or of an outhouse or appurtenance belonging to or usually enjoyed with the building which is occupied or is intended to be occupied as the dwelling.”
(3)Sections 34 to 36 are omitted.
(4)In section 87(1) (general interpretation) in the definition of “dwelling” “(except in section 29)” is omitted.
(5)But the amendments made by this paragraph do not have effect in relation to a compulsory purchase order made or made in draft before the commencement of this paragraph.