Paragraph 2
After submitting the order to the Secretary of State, the acquiring authority—
shall publish a notice in the prescribed form describing the land, stating that an order authorising the compulsory acquisition thereof has been submitted to the Secretary of State, naming a place where a copy of the order and of the map or maps and any descriptive matter annexed thereto may be seen at any reasonable hour, and specifying the time (not being less than 28 days from the first local advertisement) within which, and the manner in which, objections to the order may be made; and
shall serve on every person appearing from the valuation roll to have an interest in any of the land to which the order relates and on such other persons as the Secretary of State may specify, whether individually or as members of a class of persons, a notice to the like effect as the notice required to be published under head (a) above;
Provided that head (b) above shall not apply if the order relates only to land within the area of a new town.
The notice required to be published by sub-paragraph (1)(a) above shall be published in the Edinburgh Gazette and, in each of two successive weeks, in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the land to which the order relates is situated, and by affixing a copy of the notice, addressed to “the owners and any occupiers” of the land (describing it), to some conspicuous object or objects on the land.
Publication and, if applicable, service in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall be effected—
in the case of an order relating only to land within the area of a new town, as soon as may be after the order has been submitted;
in any other case, as soon as may be after the order has been submitted and service as aforesaid has been effected.
In this paragraph “the first local advertisement”, in relation to a notice, means the first publication of the notice in a newspaper circulating in the locality where the land to which the notice relates is situated, and includes, in relation to a notice so published once only, the publication thereof.