SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3E+W+S The New Towns Code

Part IIIE+W+S Procedure on Compulsory Acquisition

Alternative procedure for acquiring operational land of statutory undertakersE+W+S

18As soon as may be after submitting the application to the Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister the acquiring authority shall serve on every owner, lessee and occupier of any land to which application relates a notice in the prescribed form describing the land, stating that an application under the said paragraph 16(1)(a) has been submitted in relation to the land and is about to be considered by the Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister, naming a place where a copy of the application and of the map referred to therein may be seen at all reasonable hours, and specifying the time (not being less than twenty-eight days from the service of the notice) within which, and the manner in which, objections to the application may be made.