{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-compulsory-acquisition-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-compulsory-acquisition-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-30.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/691",
  "legislation_title": "The Infrastructure Consent (Compulsory Acquisition) (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-compulsory-acquisition-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "General vesting declaration statement",
  "text": "(1) A general vesting declaration statement must include—\n(a) that the prospective purchaser may acquire any of the identified land by executing a general vesting declaration under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981,\n(b) that the prospective purchaser must serve a notice of a general vesting declaration on every occupier of the land to which it relates, and on any person who has provided relevant information in response to the invitation required by regulation 29(2)(e),\n(c) that when the notices in sub-paragraph (b) are served the period specified in the notice, of not less than three months, will begin to run,\n(d) that on the vesting date, being the day after the period specified in the notice expires, the land described in the declaration will vest in the prospective purchaser and they will be entitled to enter the land and take possession of it,\n(e) that every person on whom the prospective purchaser could have served a notice to treat will be entitled to claim compensation for the acquisition of their interest in the land, and that interest will accrue on that compensation from the vesting date,\n(f) that a general vesting declaration will not apply to a tenancy of a year or less, or a long tenancy which is about to expire,\n(g) that such a tenancy will be subject to a separate notice to treat, and\n(h) that the vesting of the land will be subject to such a tenancy until the tenancy ends or until the expiry of a period of not less than 3 months after the service of a notice of the prospective purchaser’s intention to take possession of the land on the tenant and every other occupier of the land,\n(2) Expressions used in this regulation and in the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 have the same meaning as in that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 30 renumbered as reg. 30(1) (14.12.2025) by The Infrastructure Consent (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1091), regs. 1(2), 3(12)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 30(1)(c) inserted (14.12.2025) by The Infrastructure Consent (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1091), regs. 1(2), 3(12)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 30(1)(f) substituted (14.12.2025) by The Infrastructure Consent (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1091), regs. 1(2), 3(12)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 30(2) inserted (14.12.2025) by The Infrastructure Consent (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1091), regs. 1(2), 3(12)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 30 in force at 15.12.2025, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/691/regulation/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:32.514272+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}