Town and Country Planning Act 1962

31 Supplementary provisions as to building preservation orders

(1) Provision may be made by regulations under this Act with respect to the form of building preservation orders, and the procedure to be followed in connection with the submission and confirmation of such orders; and, subject to the next following subsection, such regulations shall, in particular, make provision for securing—

(a) that notice of the submission of any such order to the Minister shall be given to the owner and any occupier of the building affected by the order ;

(b) that objections and representations with respect to the proposed order duly made in accordance with the regulations shall be considered before the order is confirmed by the Minister ; and

(c) that a copy of the order, when confirmed by the Minister, shall be served on the owner and any occupier of the building to which it relates.

(2) If it appears to the Minister that any such order should take effect immediately, he may confirm the order provisionally without complying with the requirements of any such regulations with respect to the consideration of objections and representations ; but any order so confirmed shall cease to have effect at the end of two months from the date on which it is so confirmed, unless within that period it has again been confirmed, with or without modifications, after compliance with those requirements.

(3) Nothing in any building preservation order shall render unlawful the execution of any works which are urgently necessary in the interests of safety or health or for the preservation of the building or of neighbouring property, so long as notice in writing of the proposed execution of the works is given, as soon as may be after the necessity for the works arises, to the authority by whom the order was made.

(4) The powers conferred on a local planning authority by the last preceding section to make a building preservation order may be exercised also by the council of the county district in which the building to which the order relates is situated; and references in this Act to local planning authorities shall, in relation to those powers, be construed as including references to the council of a county district.