Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1954

13 Applications for payments under Part I

(1) A payment under this Part of this Act shall not be payable unless an application for the payment is made to the Central Land Board in such manner, within such period (not being less than three months from the commencement of this Act), and accompanied by such particulars and verified by such evidence, as may be prescribed by regulations under this section, or as may be required by the Board in accordance with such regulations:

Provided that the Board may in any particular case (either before, on or after the date on which the time for applying would otherwise have expired) allow an extended, or further extended, period for making an application for such a payment.

(2) Provision shall be made by regulations under this section—

(a) for requiring applications for payments under this Part of this Act to be determined by the Central Land Board in such manner as may be prescribed ;

(b) for regulating the practice and procedure to be followed in connection with the determination of such applications ;

(c) for requiring the Board, on determining any such application, to give notice of their determination to the applicant, and, if their determination includes an apportionment, to give particulars of the apportionment to any other person entitled to an interest in land which it appears -to the Board will be substantially affected by the apportionment.

(3) Subject to the next following subsection, provision shall be made by regulations under this section—

(a) for enabling the applicant, if he wishes to dispute the Board's determination, or any other person to whom particulars of an apportionment have been given in accordance with the last preceding subsection, or who establishes that he is entitled to an interest in land which is substantially affected by any apportionment included in the Board's determination, if he wishes to dispute the apportionment, to refer the dispute to the Lands Tribunal;

(b) for enabling the applicant, and, so far as the reference relates to an apportionment, every other such person as aforesaid, to be heard by the Tribunal on any reference under this subsection ; and

(c) for requiring the Tribunal, on any such reference, either to confirm or to vary the Board's determination or, as the case may be, the apportionment included therein, and to notify the parties of their decision.

(4) Where on a reference to the Lands Tribunal under this section it is shown that an apportionment relates wholly or partly to the same matters as a previous apportionment and is consistent with that previous apportionment in so far as it relates to those matters, the Tribunal shall not vary the apportionment in such a way as to be inconsistent with the previous apportionment in so far as it relates to those matters.