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<Text>Subsection (2) applies where—</Text>
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<Text>an appropriate authority has served a counter-notice objecting to a blight notice in respect of land falling within the provision of Schedule 19 specified in the second column of the table, and</Text>
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<Text>the event specified in the corresponding entry in the third column of the table occurs.</Text>
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<Text>The appropriate authority may serve on the claimant a further counter-notice under section 325 that—</Text>
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<Text>Section 325(3) does not apply to a further counter-notice, but instead such a notice must be served before the end of 2 months beginning with the day on which the event specified in the entry in the third column of the table occurs.</Text>
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<Text>A further counter-notice must not be served if—</Text>
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