Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1945

41 Elimination of value due to government war work, and &c.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, in assessing the compensation such adjustment shall be made therein (so far as it depends on the value or changes in the value of any land) as is necessary to offset any increase or diminution of the compensation attributable directly or indirectly to, or to a combination of, any of the following factors, that is to say—

(a) any damage occurring to the land acquired or any contiguous or adjacent land while the land acquired was, during the war period, in the possession of a Minister or of a person occupying or using it under the authority of a Minister;

(b) any work done at any time since the beginning of the war period on the land acquired or any contiguous or adjacent land by or by arrangement with a Minister or the acquiring authority or combination of authorities or in the exercise of emergency powers;

(c) any prohibition or restriction imposed in the exercise of emergency powers on the doing of any work on the land acquired or on any contiguous or adjacent land:

Provided that, in assessing any compensation for injurious affection of land other than the land acquired, account may, notwithstanding anything in this subsection, be taken of the actual state and circumstances of the land acquired as existing at the date of the notice to treat in so far as they may be expected to persist after the purchase.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, where any such work as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) thereof was done wholly or partly at the expense of, or in pursuance of an agreement with, any person having an interest in the land acquired, any increase of value attributable to the expenditure incurred by, or consideration moving from, that person shall, notwithstanding anything in the said subsection (1), be taken into account in assessing the compensation payable in respect of that interest.

(3) Where, in connection with any previous proposal to acquire any of the land acquired, a payment in respect of the value of any works has been made to a Minister under Part II of this Act in pursuance of a report of the Commission, any increase of value attributable to the construction of the works shall, notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, be taken into account in assessing any compensation payable in respect of the land.

(4) Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to work done, under such circumstances that a payment of cost of works falls to be made in respect thereof, for making good war damage, unless that war damage is such damage as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection:

Provided that where the work done included alterations or additions and the cost thereof was greater than the permissible amount in relation to a payment of cost of works, such deduction, if any, as may be just shall be made from the compensation in respect of the additional value, if any, of the land ascribable to the excess.

(5) Where the land acquired or any contiguous or adjacent land consists of or includes the whole or any part of a hereditament which has suffered war damage, and a payment falls to be made under the War Damage Act, 1943, in respect of that damage—

(a) paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to so much of that damage as has not been made good at the date of the notice to treat; and

(b) where section seventeen of the War Damage Act, 1943 (which provides that value payments in the case of requisitioned land are to be computed by reference to the state of the land before the requisition) applies, subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to any change (whether for the better or the worse) occurring in the hereditament in question which, under the said section seventeen, affects the amount of the value payment.

(6) In the last two preceding subsections, expressions have the same meanings as they have for the purposes of Part I of the War Damage Act, 1943.

(7) The preceding provisions of this section shall not apply in relation to any such supplement to compensation as is provided for in Part II of the [7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 47.] Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, but, in considering whether, in the case of any interest in land, any such supplement can be made and, if so, what can and should be the amount thereof, any changes in the land attributable directly or indirectly to, or to a combination of, any of the factors mentioned in subsection (1) of this section shall, to such extent as is reasonable in the case of that interest, be left out of account.

(8) The preceding provisions of this section shall apply to compensation for the acquisition of an easement or restrictive right or for the discharge or modification of a restriction subject to the following adaptations, that is to say—

(a) for the references to the land acquired there shall be substituted references to the land the value of which is diminished by the acquisition, discharge or modification; and

(b) the proviso to subsection (1) shall not apply; and

(c) the last preceding subsection shall not apply, and for the purposes of Part II of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, the compensation shall be treated as if it were compensation for damage sustained, within the period of five years from the commencement of that Act, by reason of land being injuriously affected by the execution of works,