Town and Country Planning Act 1962

184 Exchequer grants to local authorities

(1) Regulations made under this section with the consent of the Treasury may provide for the payment by the Minister to local authorities of grants of such amounts, and payable over such periods and subject to such conditions, as may be determined by or under the regulations in respect of expenditure incurred by those authorities, whether before or after the commencement of this Act.—

(a) in connection with the acquisition for war-damage re-development of land approved by the Minister for the purposes of the regulations, or in connection with the clearing or preliminary development of land acquired for such redevelopment by those authorities with such approval;

(b) in the payment of compensation in respect of land of the National Coal Board to which the relevant provisions relating to statutory undertakers apply by virtue of regulations made under section two hundred and four of this Act, being compensation payable under Part VII of this Act or under Part X thereof, otherwise than as mentioned in subsection (2) of section one hundred and seventy or in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and seventy-one of this Act;

(c) in taking any action under section twenty-eight, section thirty-seven or subsection (2) of section sixty-one of this Act in respect of such land of the National Coal Board as is mentioned in the last preceding paragraph.

(2) Regulations made under this section may provide for the payment of grants thereunder, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the regulations, in respect of land appropriated by local authorities (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) for any purpose approved by the Minister in accordance with the regulations, as if the land had been acquired for that purpose at a cost of such amount, and defrayed in such manner as may be determined by or under the regulations.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this section, any regulations made under this section may provide—

(a) for the inclusion, in the expenditure incurred by local authorities in the acquisition of land approved by the Minister for the purposes of the regulations, of any sums, or any part of sums, paid by those authorities in connection with any restriction imposed on the development or use of the land by or under any enactment (whether by way of compensation or by way of contribution towards damage or expense incurred in consequence of the restriction);

(b) for the calculation of grants payable under the regulations by reference to the amount of the annual costs incurred or treated as being incurred by local authorities in respect of the borrowing of money to defray expenditure in respect of which the grants are made, or by reference to the excess of such annual costs over receipts of those authorities which are attributable to such expenditure, or over the annual value of such receipts, as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(4) In this section—

• “war-damage redevelopment ” means the redevelopment as a whole of an area of extensive war damage, and includes the relocation of population or industry, or the replacement of open space, in the course of such redevelopment;

• “preliminary development ”, in relation to land approved for the purposes of regulations made under this section, means the carrying out of any work determined in accordance with the regulations to be work preparatory to the development of the land for the purposes for which it was acquired or appropriated, or work comprised in the initial stages of such development;

• “the relevant provisions relating to statutory undertakers ” means all or any of the following provisions of this Act, that is to say, sections one hundred and fifty-nine to one hundred and sixty-two, subsection (1) of section one hundred and seventy, and section one hundred and seventy-one (excluding paragraph (c) of subsection (1) thereof).