Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948

7 Amount of rental compensation for requisitioned land. U.K.

(1) In relation to rental compensation in respect of the taking possession of land, that is to say compensation calculated in accordance with paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section two of the Act of 1939 by reference to the rent which might reasonably be expected to be payable by a tenant in occupation of the land, the said section two shall have effect, as respects any period after the commencement of this Act, subject to the provisions of this section.

(2) So much of proviso (i) to subsection (1) of the said section two as provides, in relation to rental compensation, for disregarding any appreciation of values due to the emergency, shall not have effect, but—

(a) rental compensation shall not in any case exceed the maximum applicable in that case under the next following section;

(b) where the taking possession of land which gives rise to rental compensation has occurred before the appointed day for the purposes of the M1 Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, the rental compensation shall be assessed on the assumption that at all material times the land was subject to such a permanent restriction of development as is specified in subsection (3) of section fifty-five of the said Act of 1947.

(3) Where possession of any land is or has been retained in exercise of the right conferred by subsection (2) of section twenty-eight of the Act of 1945 on the determination of some other right not conferred by emergency powers, this and the three next following sections shall apply as if possession had been taken on the determination of that other right.

Marginal Citations

M1 1947 c. 51.