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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14Amendments consequential on the Housing and Planning Act 2016

9In paragraph 4 of Schedule 9 (acquisition of rights in land: application of Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981), for sub-paragraph (7) substitute—

(7)Schedule A1 to the 1981 Act (counter-notice requiring purchase of land not in general vesting declaration) has effect as if—

(a)in paragraph 1(1), for “part only of” there were substituted “only the acquisition of a right over, or the imposition of a restrictive covenant affecting,”,

(b)paragraph 1(2) were omitted,

(c)references to the land proposed to be acquired were (subject to paragraph (e) below) to the right proposed to be acquired or the restrictive covenant proposed to be imposed,

(d)references to the additional land were to the house, building or factory over which the right or covenant is proposed to be exercisable or enforceable,

(e)in paragraphs 14 and 15, references to the severance of the land proposed to be acquired were to the acquisition of the right or the imposition of the restrictive covenant, and

(f)in paragraph 15, after “in addition to” there were substituted “or in substitution for”.