Town and Country Planning Act 1962

74 Order providing for expedited completion

(1) Where, for the purposes of an acquisition under section sixty-eight of this Act, a local authority submit to the Minister a compulsory purchase order, and—

(a) the order as submitted to the Minister includes an application for a direction under this section, and

(b) the Minister is satisfied that it is urgently necessary in the public interest to empower that authority to enter upon any land (being the whole or part of the land to which the order relates) and to secure its vesting in them before the expiry of the time which would be required for the service of notices to treat,

the Minister may include in the order as confirmed by him a direction that the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to expedited completion shall apply to the order so far as it relates to the first-mentioned land.

(2) A compulsory purchase order which contains such a direction shall be registered in the register of local land charges, in such manner as may be prescribed by rules made for the purposes of this section under subsection (6) of section fifteen of the Land Charges Act, 1925, by the proper officer of the council of each county borough or county district in which the land to which the direction relates or any part thereof is situated ; and it shall be the duty of the local authority, as soon as may be after the order has become operative, to notify that fact to the proper officer of the council by whom it is required to be so registered, and to furnish him with all information relating to the order which is required for the purpose.

(3) Where a compulsory purchase order containing a direction under this section is made in respect of land which has sustained war damage, being damage which has not been made good before the date on which the order is registered under the last preceding subsection, the local authority, when they notify the fact that the order has become operative to the proper officer under the last preceding subsection, shall notify the War Damage Commission of that action having been taken.