Licensing Act 1964

105 Supplementary provisions as to compulsory purchase

(1) The powers of compulsory purchase conferred on the Secretary of State by section 104 of this Act shall be exercisable in accordance with the provisions of the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946; and that Act shall apply accordingly in relation to the authorisation of a compulsory purchase under that section as it applies in relation to such an authorisation as is mentioned in section 1 of that Act.

(2) The power of compulsory purchase conferred by section 104 of this Act shall not extend to the purchase of any interest in land which is an interest belonging to a development corporation; but nothing in this subsection or in section 2(2) or section 5 of the New Towns Act 1946 (which relate to the powers of a development corporation to dispose of land) shall be taken to limit the power of such a corporation, with any consent of the Minister requisite under the said section 5, to dispose under that section of any such interest on a purchase by agreement under paragraph (a) of section 104(1) of this Act or to limit the power of the Minister to give any such consent.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, any officer of the Valuation Office of the Inland Revenue Department, or any other person if authorised by the Secretary of State, may at any reasonable time enter upon land for the purpose of surveying it in connection with any proposal for the compulsory purchase of the land, or any adjacent land, under section 104 of this Act.

(4) A person proposing to exercise a power of entry conferred under this section—

(a) shall, if required to do so, produce some duly authenticated document showing his authority ;

(b) shall not demand admission as of right to any land that is occupied unless twenty-four hours' notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier.

(5) Any person who wilfully obstructs a person acting in the exercise of a right of entry conferred under this section shall be liable, on a first conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds, and on a subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.