Where any interest in land is acquired or sold as aforesaid and the land is used for the purposes of agriculture (within the meaning of F2section 277(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997) by way of a trade or business, the acquiring authority may pay to any person carrying on that trade or business who is displaced from the land such reasonable allowance as they think fit towards his removal expenses and the loss which, in their opinion, he will sustain by reason of the resulting disturbance of his trade or business.

In estimating the loss of any person for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) or subsection (2) of this section, the authority shall have regard to the period for which the premises or, as the case may be, land occupied by him might reasonably have been expected to be available for the purpose of his trade or business, and to the availability of other premises or, as the case may be, land suitable for that purpose.