{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-compensation-additional-compensation-england-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-compensation-additional-compensation-england-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/915",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Compensation (Additional Compensation) (England) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-compensation-additional-compensation-england-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1981 Act” means the Acquisition of Land Act 1981;\n“the Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961;\n“agricultural land” has the meaning given in section 109 of the Agriculture Act 1947;\n“Bank of England base rate” means—\n(a) the rate announced from time to time by the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England as the official dealing rate, being the rate at which the Bank is willing to enter into transactions for providing short term liquidity in the money markets, or\n(b) where an order under section 19 of the Bank of England Act 1998 (reserve powers) is in force, any equivalent rate determined by the Treasury under that section;\n“compulsory purchase order” means an order conferring authorisation of a compulsory purchase;\n“ecclesiastical property” has the same meaning as in section 12(3) of the 1981 Act;\n“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;\n“electronic copy” means a copy of a document or information sent using electronic communication;\n“Estates Gazette” means EG magazine, a magazine formerly known as the Estates Gazette, published weekly by Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions featuring news and data about the UK commercial property market;\n“Farmers Weekly” means the magazine of this name published weekly by the Mark Allen Group featuring news and information for and about the British farming industry;\n“postal address” includes, in the case of an incorporated company or body, the address of the registered or principal office of that company or body;\n“working day” means a day which is not a Saturday or a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday in England under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1947 c. 48. Section 109 was amended by S.I. 1978/446."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1998 c. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1981 c. 67. Section 12(3) was amended by paragraph 24(1) of Schedule 5 to the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2006 (No. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2000 c. 7. Section 15(1) was amended by section 406(1) of, and paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to, the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/915/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:49.016134+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."
}