# Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act 1972 (repealed 27.5.1997), Section 7: Service of building preservation notices in cases of urgency.

Extent: S

(1) Section 58 of the Act of 1971 shall be amended by adding at the end the following subsection:—
“(6) If it appears to the local planning authority to be urgent that a building preservation notice should come into force, they may, instead of serving the notice on the owner and occupier of the building to which it relates, affix the notice conspicuously to some object on the building; and this shall be treated for all the purposes of this section and of Schedule 11 to this Act as service of the said notice, in relation to which subsection (1)(b) of this section shall be taken to include a reference to this subsection.”
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/42/section/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-amendment-act-1972-repealed-2751997/section-7
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