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  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/70",
  "legislation_title": "Welsh Development Agency Act 1975",
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  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
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  "text": "(1) On the completion by the Assembly of a compulsory acquisition of land under section 21A above, all—\n(a) private rights of way; and\n(b) rights of laying down, erecting, continuing or maintaining any apparatus on, under or over the land,\nshall be extinguished and any such apparatus shall vest in the Assembly.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) above does not apply to any right vested in, or apparatus belonging to, statutory undertakers for the purpose of the carrying on of their undertaking.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (1) above has effect in relation to any right or apparatus not falling within sub-paragraph (2) above subject—\n(a) to any direction given by the Assembly before the completion of the acquisition that sub-paragraph (1) above shall not apply to any right or apparatus specified in the direction; and\n(b) to any agreement which may be made (whether before or after the completion of the acquisition) between the Assembly and the person in or to whom the right or apparatus is vested or belongs.\n(4) Any person who suffers loss by the extinguishment of a right or the vesting of any apparatus under this paragraph shall be entitled to compensation from the Assembly.\n(5) Any compensation payable under this paragraph shall be determined in accordance with the Land Compensation Act 1961.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 inserted (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 127, Sch. 13 para. 3 (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4."
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 5: words in Act substituted (1.4.2006) by The Welsh Development Agency (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3226), arts. 1(1)(2), 7(1), {Sch. 1 para. 1, 2} (with art. 3(1))"
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      "text": "1961 c. 33."
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