SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 General Vesting Declarations for Land Compulsorily Acquired.
Section 30.

Execution of general vesting declarations
1 Where a compulsory purchase order authorising an acquiring authority to acquire any land has come into operation, the authority may execute in respect of any of the land which they are authorised to acquire by the compulsory purchase order a declaration in the prescribed form (in this Schedule referred to as " a general vesting declaration ") vesting the land in themselves as from the end of such period as may be specified in the declaration (not being less than twenty-eight days) from the date on which the service of notices required by paragraph 4 below is completed.
2 (1) Before making a general vesting declaration with respect to any land which is subject to a compulsory purchase order, the acquiring authority shall include in the notice of the making or confirmation of the order which is required to be published or served by paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1946 or any other provision of the relevant enactments corresponding to that paragraph, or in a notice given subsequently and before the service of the notice to treat in respect of that land,—
(a) such a statement of the effect of paragraphs 1 to 8 of this Schedule as may be prescribed ; and
(b) a notification to the effect that every person who, if a general vesting declaration were made in respect of all the land comprised in the order in respect of which notice to treat has not been given, would be entitled to claim compensation in respect of any such land is invited to give information to the authority making the declaration in the prescribed form with respect to his name and address and the land in question.
(2) The requirements of the relevant enactments with respect to the publication and service of a notice of the making or confirmation of a compulsory purchase order shall apply to a notice under this paragraph given subsequently to the first-mentioned notice.
(3) A notice complying with sub-paragraph (1) above with respect to any land shall be registered in the register of local land charges by the proper officer of the local authority for the area in which that land, or any part of that land, is situated.
3 A general vesting declaration shall not be executed before the end of the period of two months beginning with the date of the first publication of the notice complying with paragraph 2(1) above, or such longer period, if any, as may be specified in the notice:
Provided that, with the consent in writing of every occupier of any of the land specified in the declaration, the acquiring authority may execute a general vesting declaration before the end of that period of two months, or of the longer period so specified, as the case may be.
4 As soon as may be after executing a general vesting declaration, the acquiring authority shall serve—
(a) on every occupier of any of the land specified in the declaration (other than land in which there subsists a minor tenancy or a long tenancy which is about to expire) ; and
(b) on every other person who has given information to the authority with respect to any of that land in pursuance of the invitation published and served under paragraph 2(1) above,
a notice in the prescribed form specifying the land and stating the effect of the declaration.
5 For the purposes of this Schedule, a certificate by the acquiring authority that the service of notices required by paragraph 4 above was completed on a date specified in the certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the fact so stated.

Effect of general vesting declaration
6 At the end of the period specified in a general vesting declaration, the provisions of the Land Compensation Act 1961 (as modified by Schedule 2 to the Act of 1946) and of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 shall apply as if, on the date on which the declaration was made, a notice to treat had been served on every person on whom, under section 5 of the last-mentioned Act (on the assumption that they required to take the whole of the land specified in the declaration and had knowledge of all the parties referred to in that section) the acquiring authority could have served such a notice, other than—
(a) any person entitled to an interest in the land in respect of which such a notice had actually been served before the end of that period ; and
(b) any person entitled to a minor tenancy or a long tenancy which is about to expire.
1961 c. 33.
1965 c. 56.
7 At the end of the period specified in a general vesting declaration, the land specified in the declaration, together with the right to enter upon and take possession of it, shall vest in the acquiring authority as if the circumstances in which under Part I of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 an authority authorised to purchase land compulsorily have any power to execute a deed poll (whether for vesting land or any interest in land in themselves or for extinguishing the whole or part of any rent-service, rentcharge, chief or other rent, or other payment or incumbrance) had arisen in respect of all the land and all interests therein, and the acquiring authority had duly exercised that power accordingly at the end of that period.
8 Where any land specified in a general vesting declaration is land in which there subsists a minor tenancy or a long tenancy which is about to expire—
(a) the right of entry conferred by paragraph 7 above shall not be exercisable in respect of that land unless, after serving a notice to treat in respect of that tenancy, the acquiring authority have served upon every occupier of any of the land in which the tenancy subsists a notice stating that, at the end of such period as is specified in the notice (not being less than fourteen days) from the date on which the notice is served, they intend to enter upon and take possession of such land as is specified in the notice, and that period has expired ; and
(b) the vesting of the land in the acquiring authority shall be subject to the tenancy until that period expires, or the tenancy comes to an end, whichever first occurs.
9 (1) Subject to the following sub-paragraph, the supplementary provisions contained in Schedule 3 to the Land Commission Act 1967 (being provisions as to exclusion of power of entry, objections to severance, compensation and other miscellaneous matters arising on the making of a general vesting declaration under Part II of that Act) shall have effect for the purposes of paragraphs 6 to 8 above as they have effect for the purposes of section 10 of that Act.
1967 c. 1.
(2) For the purpose of applying the said Schedule 3 to paragraphs 6 and 8 above, the following substitution of references shall be made therein—
Original reference in Land Commission Act 1967, Schedule 3	Substituted references for purposes of this Schedule
The Land Commission	An acquiring authority
The Land Commission Act 1967	This Act
The Land Commission Act 1967—	
Section 9(3)	Paragraph 4 of this Schedule
Section 10	Paragraphs 6 to 8 of this Schedule
Section 10(2)	Paragraph 7 of this Schedule.
1967 c. 1.
(3) In the said Schedule 3 as so applied, " land " shall have the same meaning as in this Schedule.

Recovery of compensation overpaid
10 The provisions of paragraphs 11 to 15 below shall have effect where, after the acquiring authority have made a general vesting declaration in respect of any land, a person claims compensation in respect of the acquisition by the authority of an interest in any land by virtue of the declaration, and the authority pay compensation in respect of that interest.
11 If, in a case falling within paragraph 10 above, it is subsequently shown—
(a) that the land, or the claimant's interest in it, was subject to an incumbrance which was not disclosed in the particulars of his claim ; and
(b) that by reason of that incumbrance the compensation paid exceeded the compensation to which the claimant was entitled in respect of that interest,
the acquiring authority may recover the amount of the excess from the claimant.
12 If, in a case falling within paragraph 10 above, it is subsequently shown that the claimant was not entitled to the interest in question, either in the whole or in part of the land to which the claim related, the acquiring authority may recover from him an amount equal to the compensation paid, or to so much of that compensation as, on a proper apportionment thereof, is attributable to that part of the land, as the case may be.
13 Any question arising under paragraph 11 or 12 above—
(a) as to the amount of the compensation to which the claimant was entitled in respect of an interest in land ; or
(b) as to the apportionment of any compensation paid,
shall be referred to and determined by the Lands Tribunal; and in relation to the determination of any such question, the provisions of section 2 of the Land Compensation Act 1961 shall apply, subject to any necessary modifications.
1961 c. 33.
14 Subject to paragraph 13 above, any amount recoverable by the acquiring authority under paragraph 11 or 12 above shall be recoverable as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.
15 Any sum recovered under paragraph 11 or 12 above in respect of land by an acquiring authority who are a local authority shall be applied towards the repayment of any debt incurred in acquiring or redeveloping that land or if no debt was so incurred shall be paid into the account into which sums incurred in the acquisition of that land were paid.

Supplemental
16 (1) In this Schedule " minor tenancy " means a tenancy for a year or from year to year or any lesser interest, and " long tenancy which is about to expire ", in relation to a general vesting declaration, means a tenancy granted for an interest greater than a minor tenancy, but having at the date of the declaration a period still to run which is not more than the specified period (that is to say, such period, longer than one year, as may for the purposes of this paragraph be specified in the declaration in relation to the land in which the tenancy subsists).
(2) In determining for the purposes of this paragraph what period a tenancy still has to run at the date of a general vesting declaration it shall be assumed—
(a) that the tenant will exercise any option to renew the tenancy, and will not exercise any option to terminate the tenancy, then or thereafter available to him, and
(b) that the landlord will exercise any option to terminate the tenancy then or thereafter available to him.
17 In this Schedule—
" relevant enactments ", in relation to an acquiring authority, means the enactments under which that authority may acquire or be authorised to acquire land compulsorily and which prescribe a procedure for effecting the compulsory acquisition of land by them by means of a compulsory purchase order;
" land ", in relation to compulsory acquisition by an acquiring authority, has the same meaning as in the relevant enactments.