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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/51/section/21/enacted</dc:identifier><dc:title>Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963</dc:title><dc:subject>Building alterations</dc:subject><dc:subject>Land searches</dc:subject><dc:subject>Compensation</dc:subject><dc:subject>Compulsory purchase</dc:subject><dc:subject>Legislation</dc:subject><dc:contributor/><dc:creator/><dc:rights/><dc:contributor/><dc:creator>TSO</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright The Stationery Office 2006</dc:rights><dc:publisher>King's Printer of Acts of Parliament</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2020-06-17</dc:modified>
					
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<Text>Where an interest in any hereditament or part of a hereditament which has sustained war damage is compulsorily acquired, then if—</Text>
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<Text>any of the damage has not been made good at the date of the notice to treat; and</Text>
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<Text>the appropriate payment under the War Damage Act 1943 would, apart from the compulsory acquisition and apart from any direction given by the Treasury under section 20(2)(b) of that Act, be a payment of cost of works;</Text>
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<Text>the following provisions of this section shall have effect.</Text>
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<Text>Where the land would, but for the occurrence of the war damage, be devoted to any such purpose as is mentioned in Rule (5) of the rules set out in section 12 of this Act, the provisions of that rule shall have effect for the purposes of the assessment of compensation payable in respect of the compulsory acquisition as if the land were devoted to that purpose.</Text>
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<Text>Where (whether by virtue of subsection (2) of this section or otherwise) the compensation payable in respect of the acquisition falls to be assessed in accordance with the said Rule (5), the reasonable cost of equivalent reinstatement shall be ascertained for the purposes of that rule by reference to the state of the land immediately before the occurrence of the war damage.</Text>
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