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or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-331-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>a counter-notice has been served but the objection has been withdrawn or has been rejected by the Upper Tribunal.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-331-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The appropriate authority is to be treated—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-331-2-a"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>as being authorised to acquire compulsorily under the appropriate enactment—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-331-2-a-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>the claimant’s interest in the hereditament, or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-331-2-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>in the case of an agricultural unit, the claimant’s interest in the affected area, and</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-331-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>as having served a notice to treat in respect of that interest on the day mentioned in subsection (3).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-331-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>The day is—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-331-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the day specified in directions given by the Upper Tribunal under section 329(9), or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-331-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>where section 329(9) does not apply, the last day of the 2-month period.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-331-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>The 2-month period is 2 months beginning with the day the blight notice was served.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer></part></body></act></akomaNtoso>