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(1)If any person entitled to an interest in land in respect of which an order is made under section 49 of this Act claims—
(a)that by reason of the order the land is incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state, and
(b)that it cannot be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of any development for which planning permission has been granted, whether by that order or otherwise,
he may, within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations under this Act, serve on the. . . F1 planning authority in whose district the land is situated a notice requiring that authority to purchase his interest in the land in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act.
(2)Section 169(7) of this Act shall apply to this section; and, subject to subsection (3) of this section, sections 169(2), 170 to 173, 175 and 176 of this Act shall apply to a notice served by virtue of subsection (1) of this section as they apply to a notice served by virtue of section 169(1) of this Act.
(3)In the application of subsection (2) of section 169 of this Act to a purchase notice served by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, that subsection shall apply as if the words “or which would contravene the condition set out in Schedule 16 to this Act” were omitted; and in the application of section 172 of this Act to a purchase notice served as aforesaid, that sec tion shall have effect subject to the following modifications, that is to say—
(a)in subsection (1), for the reference to the conditions therein mentioned, there shall be substituted a reference to the conditions specified in subsection (1)(a) and (b) of this section; and
(b)the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (2)—
“(2) If it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient to do so, he may, in lieu of confirming the purchase notice, revoke the order under section 49 of this Act, or, as the case may be, amend that order so far as appears to him to be required in order to prevent the land from being rendered incapable of reasonably beneficial use by the order”.
(4)Where a purchase notice in respect of an interest in land is served in consequence of such an order as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, then if—
(a)that interest is acquired in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act; or
(b)compensation is payable in respect of that interest under section 176(2) of this Act,
no compensation shall be payable in respect of that order under section 159 of this Act.
(5)Except as provided by this section, no purchase notice shall be served in respect of an interest in land while the land is incapable of reasonably beneficial use by reason only of such an order as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section.
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F1Word repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), s. 172(2)
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