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Town and Country Planning Act 1954
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70Amendment of s. 19 of principal Act
(1)In section nineteen of the principal Act (which imposes on a local authority an obligation to purchase land in certain circumstances) after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following new subsection, that is to say—
“(2A)In considering, for the purposes of the last foregoing subsection, whether or not the use of land in any particular state is or would be reasonably beneficial, the Minister shall not take account of the possibility of any development, whether of that or any other land, of any class not specified in the Third Schedule to this Act.”
(2)The preceding subsection shall be deemed to have come into operation on the eighteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-two:
Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the validity of anything done in consequence of a purchase notice served before the commencement of this Act.
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