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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-and-planning-act-2016-compulsory-purchase-corresponding-amendments-regulations-2016/schedule/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111151112",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing and Planning Act 2016 (Compulsory Purchase) (Corresponding Amendments) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-and-planning-act-2016-compulsory-purchase-corresponding-amendments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "New Towns Act 1981",
  "text": "(1) The New Towns Act 1981 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Schedule 4 (procedure for authorising compulsory acquisitions), in paragraph 5—\n(a) omit the “and” before paragraph (c),\n(b) after paragraph (c) insert—\n“(d) containing a prescribed statement about the effect of Parts 2 and 3 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981, and\n(e) inviting any person who would be entitled to claim compensation if a declaration were executed under section 4 of that Act to give the acquiring authority information about the person’s name, address and interest in land, using a prescribed form,”, and\n(c) for the words from “on—” to the end, substitute “on any person who, if Part 2 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 applied to the acquisition, would be entitled to a notice under section 12 of that Act (notice to owners, lessees and occupiers).”.\n(3) In Schedule 5 (procedure for authorising compulsory acquisition of undertakers’ land), for paragraph 5 substitute—\n“5. As soon as may be after a compulsory purchase order has been made on such an application the acquiring authority shall serve on any person who, if Part 2 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 applied to the acquisition, would be entitled to a notice under section 12 of that Act (notice to owners, lessees and occupiers), a notice in the prescribed form—\n(a) stating that the order has been made,\n(b) naming a place where where a copy of the order and of the map referred to therein may be seen at any reasonable hour,\n(c) containing a prescribed statement about the effect of Parts 2 and 3 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981, and\n(d) inviting any person who would be entitled to claim compensation if a declaration were executed under section 4 of that Act to give the acquiring authority information about the person’s name, address and interest in land, using a prescribed form.”\n(4) The amendments made by this paragraph apply only in relation to a compulsory purchase order made after this paragraph comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c.64."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}