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Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947

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4Notification of purchase' of war-damaged land to War Damage Commission.

(1)On the date on which any such action as the following is taken, that is to say—

(a)notice to treat is served for the compulsory purchase under any enactment of an interest in any land that has sustained war damage any of which has not been made good at that date,

(b)any other action is taken by virtue of which compulsory purchase under any enactment of an interest in such land becomes obligatory, or

(c)there is withdrawn a notice to treat for the compulsory purchase under any enactment of an interest in any land that has sustained war damage any of which had not been made good at the time when the notice to treat was served,

or as soon as may be after that date, the person or body of persons by whom the action is taken shall notify the War Damage Commission that the action has been taken :

Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a notice to treat deemed to have been served by virtue of the Sixth Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1945.

(2)If any person or body of persons, being authorised under any enactment to purchase compulsorily land which has sustained war damage, enter into an agreement for the purchase of an interest in the land and at the date when the agreement is made any of the damage has not been made good, the person or body of persons shall, on or as soon as may be after that date, notify the War Damage Commission that they have entered into the agreement. '

(3)Any notification under this section may be given to the War Damage Commission by delivering it to an officer of the Commission at any office of the .Commission, or by sending it in a registered letter addressed to the Commission at any office of the Commission.

(4)In this section the expression " war damage " has the same meaning as in the [6 & 7 Geo. 6. c. 21.] War Damage Act, 1943, and the expression " enactment " includes an enactment passed after the commencement of this Act.

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