Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947

PART ICentral and Local Administration.

1The Central Land Board.

(1)In this Act the expression " Central Land Board " means the Board established under the [10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 51.] Town and Country Planning Act, 1947.

(2)The Board shall have an office in Scotland and shall maintain there such staff as may be necessary for the proper performance of their functions under this Act.

(3)The Board shall, in the performance of their functions under this Act, comply with such directions as may be given to them by the Secretary of State.

(4)The report made by the Board for any year under section two of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, shall set out any direction given by the Secretary of State to the Board during that year unless the Secretary of State has notified to the Board his opinion that it is against the interests of national security so to do.

(5)The functions under this Act of the Board, and of their officers and servants, shall be (exercised on behalf of the Crown.

(6)Regulations made .for the purposes of section two of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, shall provide for requiring members of the' Board who are interested in any land which is the subject of a claim or application made to the/Board under this Act to disclose to the Board the nature of their interest, and may for that purpose apply any of the provisions of section one hundred and forty-nine of the [19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 23.] Companies Act, 1929, subject to such modifications as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(7)Any administrative expenses incurred for the purposes of this Act by the Board with the approval of the Secretary of State shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Treasury, be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

2Local planning authorities.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section the local planning authority for the purposes of this Act shall be—

(a)in the case of a large burgh, the town council;

(b)in the case of a county (including, subject as after-mentioned, any small burghs therein), the county : council or, in the case of a county combined with another county for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) of section one hundred and eighteen of the [10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 43.] Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947, the joint county council of the combined county; and

(c)in the case of a small burgh, to the town council of which powers and duties have been transferred under subsection (2) of section two of the Act of 1932, the town council,

and the district of the local planning authority shall be the burgh or the county or the combined county, as the case may be.

(2)Two or more local planning authorities may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, combine for any of the purposes of any provision of this Act on such terms and conditions as may be agreed between them and approved by the Secretary of State.

(3)If it appears to the Secretary of State that the combination of any local planning authority with any other local planning authority or authorities for any of the purposes of any provision of this Act would be of public or local advantage he may make an order combining those authorities as respects their districts or parts thereof for such of the purposes aforesaid as are specified in the order:

Provided that the Secretary of State shall not make such an order except after holding a local inquiry unless all the authorities concerned have consented to the making of the order.

(4)Any such order shall be laid before Parliament and if either House within a period of forty days after the order is so laid before it resolves that the order be annulled, the order snail thereupon cease to have effect, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new order.

In reckoning for the purposes of this subsection any such period of forty days, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days,

(5)The provisions of Part I and Part II of the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to the combination of authorities under subsection (2) and subsection (3) respectively of this section; the provisions of Part III and Part IV of feat Schedule shall have effect with respect to the establishment and functions of joint advisory committees and of planning committees respectively of local planning authorities; and the provisions of Part V of that Schedule shall have effect with respect to the establishment and functions of sub-committees of joint planning committees appointed in pursuance of any combination of local planning authorities under subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section, of joint advisory committees and of planning committees of local planning authorities.

PART IIPlanning and Control of Development, &c.

Development plans.

3Surveys of planning districts and preparation of development plans.

(1)As soon as may be after the appointed day, every local planning authority shall carry out a survey: of their district, and shall, not later than three years after the appointed day, or within such; extended period aa the Secretary of State may in any particular case allow, submit to the Secretary of State a report of the survey together with a plan (hereinafter called a " development plan ") indicating the manner in which they propose that land in that district should be used (whether by the carrying out thereon of development or otherwise) and the stages by which any such development should be carried out.

(2)Subject to the provisions of any regulations made under this Act for regulating the form and content of development plans, any such plan shall include such maps and such descriptive matter as may be necessary to illustrate the proposals aforesaid with such degree of particularity as may be appropriate to different parts of the district; and any such plan may in particular—

(a)define the sites of proposed roads, public and other buildings and works, airfields, parks, pleasure grounds, nature reserves and other open spaces, or allocate areas of land for use for agricultural, residential, industrial or other purposes of any class specified in the plan;

(b)designate as land subject to compulsory acquisition by airy Minister, local authority or statutory undertakers any land allocated by the plan for the pur-poses of any of their functions (including any land which that Minister or authority or those under takers are or could be authorised to acquire compulsorily under any enactment other than this Act);

(c)designate as land subject to compulsory acquisition by the appropriate local authority—

(i)any land comprised in "fin area denned by the plan as an area of comprehensive development (including any land therein which is allocated by the plan for any such purpose as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection);

(ii)any other land which, in the opinion of the local planning authority, ought to be subject to compulsory acquisition for the purpose of securing its use in the manner proposed by the plan.

(3)For the purposes of this section a development plan may define as an area of comprehensive development any area which in the opinion of the local planning authority should be developed or-redeveloped as a whole for any one or more of the following purposes, that is to say, for the purpose of dealing satisfactorily with extensive war damage or conditions of bad layout or obsolete development, or for the purpose of providing for the relocation of population or industry or the replacement of open space in the course of the development or redevelopment of any other area, or for any other purpose specified in the plan; and land may be included in any area so defined, and designated as subject to compulsory acquisition in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, whether or not provision is made by the plan for the development or redevelopment of that particular land.

(4)The Secretary of State may approve any development plan submitted to him under this section either without modification or subject to such modifications as he considers expedient:

Provided that—,

(a)he shall not approve a development plan which designates any land as subject to compulsory acquisition as aforesaid if it appears to him that the acquisition is not likely to take place within ten years from the date on which the plan is approved, or in the case of agricultural land as defined in subsection (4) of section forty-nine of this Act within seven years from that date;

(b)he shall not, except with the consent of all persons interested, approve a development plan subject to a modification designating as subject to compulsory acquisition any land not so designated in the plan as submitted to him;

(c)where a development plan as submitted to the Secretary of State designates as subject to compulsory acquisition any such land as is mentioned in paragraph 9 of the First Schedule to the [10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 42.] Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947 (which relates to land of local authorities and statutory undertakers and inalienable land of the National Trust for Scotland) then, if objection to the proposed designation is duly made by the local authority or statutory undertakers or the National Trust for Scotland, as the case may be, and is not withdrawn, the land shall not be so designated except in pursuance of an order made by the Secretary of State (or, in the case of land being operational land of statutory undertakers, by the Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister) and any such order shall be subject to special parliamentary procedure.

(5)At any time before a development plan with respect to the whole of the district of a local planning authority has been approved under this section, that authority may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, and shall if so required by directions of the Secretary of State, prepare and submit to him a development plan relating to any part of that district, and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply in relation to any such plan as they apply in relation to a plan relating to the whole of that district.

4Amendment of development plans.

(1)At least once in every five years after the date on which a development plan for any district is approved by the Secretary of State, the local planning authority shall carry out a fresh survey of that district, and submit to the Secretary of State a report of the survey, together with proposals for any alterations or additions to the plan which appear to them to be required having regard thereto.

(2)Without prejudice to the provisions of the foregoing subsection, a local planning authority may at any time, and shall if so required by directions of the Secretary of State, submit to the Secretary of State proposals for such alterations or additions to the development plan relating to their district as appear to them to be expedient or as may be required by those directions, as the case may be.

(3)Where proposals for alterations or additions to a development plan are submitted to the Secretary of State under this section, he may amend that plan to such extent as he considers expedient having regard to those proposals and to any other material considerations:

Provided that the proviso to subsection (4) of the last foregoing section shall apply in relation to the amendment of a development plan by the Secretary of State as it applies in relation to the approval of such a plan by him, and for that purpose shall have effect—

(a)as if for the reference in paragraph (a) to the date on which the plan is approved there were substituted a reference to the date on which; the amendment is effected; and

(b)as if for the references in paragraphs (b) and (c) to the plan as submitted to the Secretary of State there were substituted references to the proposals submitted to him under this section.

(4)Where, under subsection (5) of the last foregoing section, a development plan is approved with respect to a part of the district of a local planning authority, the periods of five years mentioned in subsection (1) of this section shall run from the date on which development plans in respect of the whole of the district of the local planning authority have been approved by the Secretary of State.

(5)Any proposal submitted to the Secretary of State under this section for any alteration or addition to a development plan and any amendment made by the Secretary of State under this section to a development plan may provide for securing that any land previously designated by the plan as subject to compulsory acquisition shall cease to be so designated, or that any land not previously so designated shall be so designated.

5Additional powers of the Secretary of State with respect to development plans.

(1)Where, by virtue of any of the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, or of any directions of the Secretary of State thereunder, any development plan, or any report or proposals for alterations or additions to a development plan, are required to be submitted to the Secretary of State, then—

(a)if within the period prescribed in that behalf by those provisions or directions no such plan or report or proposals, or no such plan or proposals satisfactory to the Secretary of State, have been so submitted; or

(b)if at any time it appears to the Secretary of State that the local planning Authority are not taking the Steps necessary to enable them to submit such a plan or report or proposals within that period,

the Secretary of State may, after carrying out any survey which appears to him to be expedient for the purpose, make such a development plan, or, as the case may be amend the development plan to such extent, as he considers expedient.

(2)Where, under the foregoing provisions of this section, the Secretary of State has power to make or amend a development plan, he may, if he thinks fit, authorise the local planning authority for any neighbouring district or any other local planning authority who appear to the Secretary of State to have an interest in the proper planning of the district concerned to submit such a plan to him for his approval, or, as the case may be, to submit to him proposals for the amendment of the plan, and to carry out any survey of the land which appears to him to be expedient for the purpose, and may approve any plan so submitted either without modification or subject to such modifications as he considers expedient, or, as the case may be, may amend the plan to such extent as he considers expedient having regard to the proposals so submitted and to any other material considerations.

(3)The foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act shall, so far as applicable, apply to the making, approval or amendment of development plans under this section, and to such plans so made, approved or amended, as they apply to the approval or amendment of development plans under those provisions, and to plans approved or amended thereunder.

(4)Any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State under this section in connection with the making or amendment of a development plan with respect to the district, or any part of the district, of a local planning authority shall be paid in the first instance out of moneys provided by Parliament, but so much of those expenses as may be certified by the Secretary of State to have been incurred in the performance of functions of that authority shall on demand be repaid by that authority to the Secretary of State.

(5)Where, under this section, a development plan, or proposals for the amendment of such a plan are authorised to be submitted to the Secretary of State by the local planning authority for any district other than the district in which the land is situated, any expenses reasonably incurred in that behalf by the said authority, as certified by the Secretary of State, shall be repaid to that authority by the local planning authority for the district in which the land is situated.

6Incorporation in development plans of orders relating to trunk roads and new towns.

(1)Where an order is made by the Minister of Transport in accordance with the Second Schedule to the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 30.] Trunk Roads Act, 1946, directing that any road proposed to be constructed by him shall become a trunk road, or authorising him to construct or improve an road under section four of that Act, any development plan which relates to land on which a road is to be constructed or improved in accordance with that order shall have effect as if the provisions of that order were included in the plan.

(2)Where an order is made by the Secretary of State under section one of the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68.] New Towns Act, 1946, designating any area as the site of a new town under that Act, any development plan which relates to land in that area shall have effect as if the provisions of that order were included in the plan.

(3)Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the inclusion in a development plan of provisions defining the line of roads proposed to be constructed by the Minister of Transport in accordance with any such order as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, or areas designated as the sites of new towns by any such order as is mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, or of provisions defining land as likely to be made the subject of any such order as aforesaid.

(4)Provision may be made by regulations under this Act for enabling any, proceedings preliminary to the making of any such order as is mentioned in subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section to be taken concurrently with proceedings required under this Act to be taken in connection with the approval or making of a development plan relating to land to which any such order applies or in connection with any amendment of a development plan rendered necessary or desirable in consequence of any such order.

7Modification of development plans in relation to land designated as subject to compulsory acquisition.

(1)Where any land is designated by a development plan as subject to compulsory acquisition, then if at the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the plan, or the amendment of the plan, by virtue of which the land was first so designated came into operation, any of that land has not been acquired by a Minister, local authority Or statutory undertakers who could be authorised to acquire it compulsorily under the provisions of this Act, any owner of the land may, within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations under this Act, serve on the local planning authority a notice requiring his interest in the land to be so acquired.

(2)Where any such notice is served as aforesaid, then unless within six months after the service of the notice either—

(a)notice to treat in respect of the interest to which the notice relates has been served by any such Minister, authority or undertakers as aforesaid; or

(b)an offer has been made to the owner of the said interest by any such Minister, local authority or undertakers to acquire it on terms that the price payable therefor shall be equal to (and shall be determined, in default of agreement, in like manner as) the compensation which would be payable in respect of that interest if it were acquired compulsorily,

the development plan shall have effect, after the expiration of the said six months, as if the land were not designated as subject to compulsory acquisition.

(3)The power conferred by subsection (2) of section five of the [9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 57.] Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, to withdraw a notice to treat shall not be exercisable in the case of a notice to treat which is served as mentioned in paragraph (a) of the last foregoing subsection.

(4)Where any land is designated by a development plan as subject to compulsory acquisition by the appropriate local authority (not being land comprised in an area defined by the plan as an area of. comprehensive development) then if planning permission is granted for any development of the land so designated, or any part thereof, and that development is carried out in accordance with the permission so granted, the development plan shall have effect as if the land to which the permission relates were not designated as subject to compulsory acquisition:

Provided that where any such permission as aforesaid is granted for a limited period only, the provisions of this subsection shall cease to have effect in relation to the land at the expiration of that period.

(5)In relation to land being agricultural land as defined in subsection (4) of section forty-nine of this Act subsection (1) of this section shall have effect as if for the words "twelve years "there were substituted the words " eight years. "

8Supplementary provisions as to development plans.

(1)Before preparing a development plan which relates to any land comprised in a small burgh in their district, or proposals for alterations or additions to any such plan, the local planning authority shall consult with the town council of that burgh, and shall, before submitting any such plan or proposal to the Secretary of State, give to such town council an opportunity to make representations with respect thereto and consider any representations so made.

(2)Provision may be made by regulations under this Act with respect to the form and content of development plans, and with respect to the procedure to be followed in connection with the preparation, submission, approval, making and amendment of such plans, and such regulations shall in particular make provision for securing—

(a)that before preparing a development plan or proposals for alterations or additions to any such plan the local planning authority shall consult with such bodies or persons as may be prescribed by the regulations, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of this provision, with the appropriate agricultural executive committee;

(b)that notice shall be given by advertisement in one or more newspapers circulating in the area concerned of the submission to the Secretary of State of any such plan or of proposals for the amendment of any such plan, and of any proposal by the Secretary of State to make or amend such a plan and of the place or places where copies of the plan or proposals as so submitted, or of any such proposal of the Secretary of State, may be inspected;

(c)that objections and representations duly made in accordance with the regulations shall be considered, and that such local inquiries or other hearings as may be prescribed by the regulations shall be held, before such a plan is approved, made or amended by the Secretary of State; and

(d)that copies of any such plan as approved or made by the Secretary of State, including any amendments thereof, shall be available for inspection by the public, and that copies thereof (including reproductions on such scale as may be appropriate of any relevant maps) shall be available on sale to the public at a reasonable cost.

(3)If as the result of any objections or representations considered, or of any local inquiry or other hearing held, in connection with a development plan or proposals for amendment of such a plan submitted to or prepared by the Secretary of State under this Part of this Act, the Secretary of State is of opinion that the local planning authority or any other authority or person ought to be consulted before he decides whether to approve or make the plan either with or without modifications, or to amend the plan, as the case may be, he shall consult that authority or person, but shall not be under any obligation to consult any other authority or person, or to afford any opportunity for further objections or representations or to cause any further local inquiry or other hearing to be held.

(4)Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, the Secretary of State may give directions to any local planning authority, or to local planning authorities generally—

(a)for formulating the procedure for the carrying out of their functions under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act;

(b)for requiring them to furnish to him such information as he may require for the purpose of the exercise of any of his functions under those provisions.

(5)The provisions of the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 18.] Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act, 1945, with regard to the publication of notices in the Edinburgh Gazette and in a newspaper, shall, notwithstanding anything in that Act contained, not apply to any order made in pursuance of paragraph (c) of the proviso to subsection (4) of section three of this Act if the requirements imposed by regulations under this section with respect to the publication of notices in relation to the development plan have been complied with.

9Validity and date of operation of development plans.

(1)Immediately after a development plan has been approved or made or amended by the Secretary of State under this Part of this Act, the local planning authority shall publish in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations under this Act a notice stating that the plan has been approved, made, or amended, as the case may be, and naming a place where a copy of the plan or of the plan, as amended, may be seen at all reasonable hours, and shall serve a like notice on any person by whom an objection or representation was duly made to the proposed plan or amendment, and who has sent to the authority a request in writing to serve him with the notice required by this subsection, specifying an address for service, and on such other persons, if any, as may be required by general or special directions given by the Secretary of State.

(2)If any person aggrieved by the plan or by the amendment, as the case may be, desires to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the ground that it is not within the powers of this Act, or on the ground that any requirement of this Act or any regulation made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the approval or making of the plan, or, as the case may be, in relation to the making of the amendment, he may, within six weeks from the date on which the notice required by the last foregoing subsection is first published, make an application to the Court of Session, and on any such application the Court—

(a)may by interim order suspend the operation of the plan or amendment, as the case may be, or of any provision contained therein, either generally or in so far as it affects any property of the applicant, until the final determination of the proceedings; and

(b)if satisfied that the plan or amendment, or any provision contained therein, is not within the powers of this Act, or that the interests of the applicant have been substantially prejudiced by a failure to comply with any such requirement as aforesaid, may quash the plan or amendment or any provision contained therein either generally or in so far as it affects any property of the applicant.

(3)Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, a development plan or an amendment of a development plan shall not, either before or after it has been approved or made, be questioned in any legal proceedings whatsoever, and shall become operative on the date on which the notice required by this section is first published.

(4)Except by leave of the Court of Session, no appeal shall lie to the House of Lords from a decision of the Court of Session under this section.

(5)Where under paragraph (c) of the proviso to subsection (4) of section three of this Act any land to which a development plan relates is designated as subject to compulsory acquisition in pursuance of an order to which the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act, 1945, applies, then—

(a)if the order is confirmed by Act of Parliament under subsection (4) of section two, as read with section ten, of the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act, 1945, or under section six of that Act, subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall not apply to the plan so far as it designates that land; and

(b)in any other case this section shall have effect in relation to the plan so far as it so designates that land, as if in subsection (2) for the reference to the date on which the notice required by subsection (1) is first published there were substituted a reference to the date on which the order becomes operative under the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act, 1945, and as if in subsection (3) the words from '' and shall become operative "to the end of the subsection were omitted.

Permission to develop land.

10Obligation to obtain permission for development.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section and to the following provisions of this Act, permission shall be required under this Part of. this Act in respect of any development of land which is carried out after the appointed day.

(2)In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the expression " development " means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land, or the making of any material change in the use of any buildings or other land:

Provided that the following operations or uses of land shall not be deemed for the purposes of this Act to involve development of the land, that is to say—

(a)the carrying out of works for the maintenance, improvement or other alteration of any building being works which affect only the interior of the building or which do not materially affect the external appearance of the building;

(b)the carrying out by a local highway authority of any works required for the maintenance or improvement of a road, being works carried out on land within the boundaries of the road;

(c)the carrying out by any local authority or statutory undertakers of any works for the purpose of inspecting, repairing or renewing any sewers, mains, pipes, cables or other apparatus, including the breaking open of any street or other land for that purpose;

(d)the use of any buildings or other land within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse for any purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse as such;

(e)the use of any land for the purposes of agriculture or forestry (including afforestation) and the use for any of those purposes of any building occupied together with land so used;

(f)in the case of buildings or other land which are used for a purpose of any class specified in an order made by the Secretary of State under this section, the use thereof for any other purpose of the same class.

(3)For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that for the purposes of this section—

(a)the use as two or more separate dwellinghouses of any building previously used as a single dwellinghouse involves a material change in the use of the building and of each part thereof which is so used;

(b)the deposit of refuse or waste materials on land involves a material change in the use thereof, notwithstanding that the land is comprised in a site already used for that purpose, if the superficial area or the height of the deposit is thereby extended:

Provided that nothing in paragraph (b) of this subsection shall be deemed to require permission in respect of the deposit of refuse or waste materials on a site already used for that purpose if the height of the deposit does not exceed the level of the land adjoining such site, and the superficial area of the deposit is not thereby extended.

(4)Without prejudice to the provisions of any regulations made under the provisions of this Act relating to the control of advertisements, the use for the display of advertisements of any external part of a building which is not normally used for that purpose shall be treated for the purposes of this section as involving a material change in the use of that part of the building.

(5)Notwithstanding anything in this section, planning permission shall not be required—

(a)in the case of land which, on the appointed day, is being used temporarily for a purpose other than the purpose for which it is normally used, in respect of the resumption of the use of the land for the last-mentioned purpose;

(b)in the case of land which, on the appointed day, is normally used for one purpose and is also used on occasions, whether at regular intervals or not, for any other purpose, in respect of the use of the land for that other purpose on similar occasions after the appointed day;

(c)in the case of land which on the appointed day is unoccupied, in respect of the use of the land for : the purpose for which it was last used:

Provided that—

(i)in determining for the purposes of paragraph (a) of this subsection the purposes for which land was normally used and in determining for the purposes of paragraph (c) of this subsection the purposes for which land was last used, no account shall be taken of any use of the land begun in contravention of previous planning control within the meaning of section seventy-two of this Act;

(ii)paragraph (c) of this subsection shall not apply to land which was unoccupied on the seventh day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and has not been occupied since that date.

11Development orders.

(1)The Secretary of State shall by order provide for the grant of planning permission, and such permission may be granted—

(a)in the case of any development specified in any such order, or in the case of development of any class so specified, by that order itself;

(b)in any other case, by the local planning authority (or, in the cases hereinafter provided, by the Secretary of State) on an application in that behalf made to the local planning authority in accordance with the provisions of the order.

(2)An order under subsection (1) of this section (hereinafter called a " development order ") may be made either as a general order applicable (subject to such exceptions as may be specified therein) to all land, or as a special order applicable only to such land as may be so specified, and the permission granted by any such order may be granted either unconditionally or subject to such conditions or limitations as may be so specified.

(3)Without prejudice to the generality of the last foregoing subsection, a development order which grants permission for any development may—

(a)where permission is thereby granted for the erection, extension or alteration of any buildings, require the approval of the local planning authority to be obtained with respect to the design or external appearance thereof;

(b)where permission is thereby granted for development of any specified class, enable the Secretary of State or the local planning authority to direct that that permission shall not apply either in relation to development in any particular area or in relation to any particular development.

(4)For the purpose of enabling development to be carried out in accordance with planning permission, or otherwise for the purpose of promoting proper development in accordance with the development plan, a development order may direct that any enactment passed before the passing of this Act, or any regulations, orders or bye-laws made (whether before or after the passing of this Act) under any such enactment shall not apply to any development specified in the order or shall apply thereto subject to any such modifications as may be so specified.

(5)Every development order shall be laid before Parliament immediately after it is made, and if either House within the period of forty days after the order is so laid before it resolves that the order be annulled, the order shall thereupon cease to have effect, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new order:

Provided that, without prejudice to the foregoing provision, where any such order makes provision for excluding or modifying any enactment contained in a public general Act (other than any of the excepted enactments specified in the Second Schedule to this Act) the order shall be of no effect until that provision is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

(6)In reckoning for the purpose of the last foregoing subsection any such period of forty days, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.

12Applications to local planning authorities for planning permission.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this and the next following section, where application is made to the local planning authority for planning permission, that authority may grant permission either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as they think fit, or may refuse permission; and in dealing with any such application the local planning authority shall have regard to the provisions of the development plan, so far as material thereto, and to any other material considerations.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsection, conditions may be imposed on the grant of planning permission thereunder—

(a)for regulating the development or use of any land under the control of the applicant (whether or not it is land in respect of which the application was made) or requiring the carrying out of works on any such land, so far as appears to the local planning authority to be expedient for the purposes of, or in connection with, the development authorised ' by the permission; .

(b)for requiring the removal of any buildings or works authorised by the permission, or the discontinuance : of any use of land so authorised, at the expiration of a specified period, and the carrying out of any works required for the re-instatement of land at the expiration of that period;

and any planning permission granted subject to any such condition as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection is in this Act referred to as planning permission granted for a limited period only:

Provided that conditions may not be imposed by a local planning authority under paragraph (a) of this subsection for regulating the development or use of any land within the area of another local planning authority except with the consent of that authority.

(3)Provision may be made by a development order for regulating the manner in which applications for planning permission are to be dealt with by local planning authorities and in particular—

(a)for enabling the Secretary of State (or, in the case of development affecting trunk roads, the Minister of Transport) to give directions restricting the grant of planning permission by the local planning authority, during such period as may be specified in the directions, in respect of any such development, or in respect of development of any such class, as may be so specified;

(b)for authorising the local planning authority, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the order or by directions given by the Secretary of State thereunder, to grant planning permission for development which does not accord with the provisions of the development plan ;

(c)for requiring the local planning authority, before granting or refusing planning permission, to consult with such authorities or persons as may be prescribed by the order or by directions given by the Secretary of State thereunder;

(d)for requiring the local planning authority to give to any applicant for planning permission, within such time as may be prescribed by the order, such notice as may be so prescribed as to the manner in which his application has been dealt with;

(e)for requiring the local planning authority to furnish to the Secretary of State and to such other persons as may be prescribed by or under the order, such information as may be so prescribed with respect to applications for planning permission made to them, including information as to the manner in which any such application has been dealt with.

(4)Without prejudice to any provisions included in the development order by virtue of the last foregoing subsection for restricting the grant of planning permission by local planning authorities, an application to the local planning authority for permission to develop land by the erection thereon of an industrial building of any class prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this subsection by the Board of Trade shall be of no effect unless it is certified by the Board that the development in question can be carried out consistently with the proper distribution of industry, and a copy of the certificate is furnished to the local planning authority together with the application:

Provided that—

(a)no such certificate as aforesaid shall be required in respect of the erection of any industrial building if the building does not cover an area of more than five thousand square feet; and

(b)the regulations made by the Board for the purposes of this subsection may direct that no such certificate as aforesaid shall be required in respect of the erection, in any area prescribed by or under the regulations, of industrial buildings of any such class as may be so prescribed. ,

(5)Every local planning authority shall keep, in such manner as. may be prescribed by the development order, a register containing such information as may be so prescribed with respect to applications for planning permission made to that authority, including information as to the manner in which such applications have been dealt with; and every such register shall be available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours.

13Reference of applications to Secretary of State.

(1)The Secretary of State may give directions to any local planning authority, or to local planning authorities generally, requiring that any application for planning permission, or all such applications of any class specified in the directions, shall be referred to the Secretary of State instead of being dealt with by the local planning authority, and any such application shall be so referred accordingly.

(2)Where an application for planning permission is referred to the Secretary of State under this section, the provisions of subsection (1) and of subsection (2) other than the proviso thereto of the last foregoing section shall apply, subject to any necessary modifications, in relation to the determination of the application by the Secretary of State as they apply in relation to the determination of such an application by the local planning authority:

Provided that before determining any such application the Secretary of State shall, if either the applicant or the local planning authority so desire, afford to them an opportunity of appearing before and being heard by a person appointed by the Secretary of State for the purpose.

(3)The decision of the Secretary of State on any application referred to him under this section shall be final.

14Appeals to the Secretary of State.

(1)Where application is made to a local planning authority for planning permission, or for any approval of that authority required under a development order, and that permission or approval is refused by that authority, or is granted by them subject to conditions, then, if the applicant is aggrieved by their decision, he may, by notice served within the time (not being less than twenty-eight days from the receipt of notification of their decision) and in the manner prescribed by the development order, appeal to the Secretary of State:

Provided that the Secretary of State shall not be required to entertain an appeal under this subsection in respect of the determination of an application for planning permission if it appears to him that that planning permission could not have been granted by the local planning authority, or could not have been so granted otherwise than subject to the conditions imposed by them, having regard to the provisions of section twelve of this Act and of the development order, and to any directions given under that order.

(2)Where an appeal is brought under this section from a decision of the local planning authority the Secretary of State may allow or dismiss the appeal or may reverse or vary any part of the decision of the local planning authority, whether or not the appeal relates to that part, and deal with the application as if it had been made to him in the first instance; and the provisions of the last foregoing section shall apply, subject to any necessary modifications, in relation to the determination of an application by the Secretary of State on appeal under this section as they apply in relation to the determination by the Secretary of State of an application referred to him under that section:

Provided that where the Secretary of State proposes to reverse or vary any part of the decision of the local planning authority to which the appeal does not relate, he shall give notice of his intention to the local planning authority and to the applicant and shall afford to them an opportunity to make representations in regard thereto.

(3)Unless within such period as may be prescribed by the development order, or within such extended period as may at any time be agreed upon in writing between the applicant and the local planning authority, the local planning authority either—

(a)give notice to the applicant of their decision on any application made to them for planning permission, or for any approval required under a development order, or

(b)give notice to him that the application has been referred to the Secretary of State in accordance with directions given by .him under the last foregoing section,

the provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply in relation to the application as if the permission or approval to which it relates had been refused by the local planning authority, and as if notification of their decision had been received by the applicant at the expiration of the period prescribed by the development order or the extended period agreed upon as aforesaid, as the case may be.

(4)Provision may be made by a development order for securing that in the case of decisions by a local planning authority of such classes as may be prescribed by the order (being decisions relating to the design or external appearance of buildings or other similar matters) any appeal under this section shall lie to an independent tribunal established in accordance with the provisions of that order instead of to the Secretary of State; and in relation to any such appeal the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the order, as they apply in relation to appeals to the Secretary of State thereunder.

15Applications to determine whether planning permission required.

(1)If any person who proposes to carry out any operations on land or make any change in the use of land wishes to have it determined whether those operations or the making of that change in the use of land would constitute or involve development of the land within the meaning of this Act, he may either as part of an application for permission to carry out those operations or to institute that use, or without any such application, apply to the local planning authority to determine that question.

(2)The foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act shall, subject to any necessary modifications, apply in relation to any application under this section and to the determination thereof as they apply in relation to applications for planning permission and to the determination of such applications:

Provided that where it is decided by the Secretary of State tinder any of the said provisions that any operations or use to which an application under this section relates would constitute or involve development, that .decision shall not be final for the purposes of any appeal to the sheriff under the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the enforcement of planning control, in relation to those Operations or that use.

16Supplementary provisions as to grant of planning permission.

(1)The power to grant planning permission shall include power to grant permission for the retention on land of any buildings or works constructed, or carried out thereon before the date of the application, or for the continuance of any use of land instituted before that date (whether without planning permission or in accordance with such permission granted for a limited period only); and references in this Part of this Act to planning permission and to applications for such permission shall be construed accordingly.

(2)Any such permission as is mentioned in the foregoing subsection may be granted so as to take effect from the date on which the buildings or works were constructed or carried out, or the use was instituted, or from the expiration of the said period, as the case may be.

(3)Where planning permission is granted for the erection of a building, the grant of permission may specify-the purposes for which the building may be used; and if no purpose is so specified, the permission shall be construed as including permission to use the building for the purpose for which it is designed.

(4)Where planning permission is granted for any development, then, except as may be otherwise provided by the permission, the grant of permission shall enure for the benefit of the land to which the permission relates and of all persons for the time being interested therein, but without prejudice to the provisions of this Part of this Act with respect to the revocation and modification of planning permission.

(5)Where planning permission is granted for a limited period only, nothing in this Part of this Act shall be construed as requiring planning permission to be obtained for the resumption, at the expiration of that period, of the use of the land for the purpose for which it was normally used before the permission was granted:

Provided that in determining for the purposes of this subsection the purposes for which land was normally used before the grant of permission, no account shall be taken of any use of the land begun in contravention of the provisions of this Part of this Act, or begun before the appointed day in contravention of previous planning control within the meaning of section seventy-two of this Act.

17Obligation to purchase land on refusal of planning permission in certain cases.

(1)Where planning permission is refused, whether by the local planning authority or by the Secretary of State, or is granted by that, authority or by the Secretary of State subject to conditions, then if any owner or lessee of the land concerned claims—

(a)that the land has become incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state; and

(b)in a case where planning, permission was granted as aforesaid subject to conditions, that the land cannot be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial used by the carrying out of the permitted development in accordance with those conditions;

(c)in any case, that the land cannot be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of any other development for which planning permission has been or is deemed to be granted or for which the local planning authority or the Secretary of State have undertaken to grant such permission,

he may, within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations made under this Act, serve on the local planning authority in whose district the land is situated a notice (hereinafter referred to as a " purchase notice ") requiring that authority to purchase his interest in the land in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(2)Where a purchase notice is served on any local planning authority under this section that authority shall forthwith transmit a copy of the notice to the Secretary of State, and subject to the following provisions of this section the Secretary of State shall, if he is satisfied that the conditions specified in the foregoing subsection are fulfilled, confirm the notice, and thereupon the authority shall be deemed to be authorised to acquire the interest of that person compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of Part III of this Act, and to have served a notice to treat in respect thereof on such date as the Secretary of State may direct;

Provided that—

(a)if it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient so to do, he may, in lieu of confirming the purchase notice, grant planning permission for the development in respect of which the application was made or, where planning permission for that development was granted subject to conditions, revoke or amend those conditions so far as appears to him to be required in order to enable the land to be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of that development;

(b)if it appears to the Secretary of State that the land, or any part of the land, could be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use within a reasonable time by the carrying out of any other development for which permission ought to be granted, he may, in lieu of confirming the notice, or in lieu of confirming it so far as it relates to that part of the land, as the case may be, direct that such permission shall be so granted in the event of an application being made in that behalf;

(c)if it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient that another local authority should acquire the interest for the purpose of any of their functions, he may, if he confirms the notice, modify it either in relation to the whole or in relation to any part of the land to which it relates by substituting that other authority for the local planning authority on whom the notice is served, and in any such case the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall have effect accordingly.

(3)If within the period of six months from the date oh which a purchase notice is served under this section the Secretary of State has neither confirmed the notice nor taken any such other action as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of the proviso to the last foregoing subsection, nor notified the owner or lessee, as the case may be, by whom the notice was served that he does not propose to confirm the notice, the notice shall be deemed to be confirmed at the expiration of that period, and the authority on whom the notice was served shall be deemed to be authorised to acquire the interest of the owner or lessee compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of Part III of this Act, and to have served notice to treat in respect thereof at the expiration of the said period.

(4)The power conferred by subsection (2) of section five of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, to withdraw a notice to treat shall not be exerciseable in the case of a notice to treat which is deemed to have been served by virtue of this section.

(5)Before confirming a purchase notice, or taking any other action in lieu thereof, under this section, the Secretary of State shall give notice of his proposed action—

(a)to the person by whom the notice was served;;

(b)to the local planning authority, on whom the notice was served; and

(c)to any other local authority whom the Secretary of State proposes, under subsection (2) of this section, to substitute for the said local planning authority;

and if within the period prescribed by the notice under this subsection (not being less than twenty-eight days from the service thereof) any person or authority on whom that notice is served so requires, the Secretary of State shall, before confirming the purchase notice or taking any such other action as aforesaid, afford to those persons and authorities an opportunity of appearing before and being heard by a person appointed by him for the purpose.

18Compensation for refusal of planning permission in certain cases.

(1)Where, on application for planning permission to carry out development of any class specified in Part II of the Third Schedule to this Act, permission for that development is refused by the Secretary of State, either on appeal or on the reference of the application to him for determination, or is so granted by the Secretary of State subject to conditions, then if, on a claim made to the local planning authority within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations under this Act, it is shown that the value of the interest of any person in the land is less than it would have been if the permission had been granted, or had been granted unconditionally, as the case may be, the local planning authority shall pay to that person compensation (to be assessed in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule to this Act) equal to the difference.

(2)In determining for the purposes of the foregoing subsection whether and to what extent the value of any interest in land is less than it would have been if the permission had been granted or had been granted unconditionally, as the case may be, it shall be assumed that any subsequent application for the like permission would be determined in the same way:

Provided that if, on the refusal of planning permission for the development in respect of which the application is made, the Secretary of State undertakes to grant planning permission for any other development of the land in the event of an application being made in that behalf, regard shall be had to that undertaking in determining the matters aforesaid.

(3)Where a purchase notice served under the last foregoing section in respect of any interest in land does not take effect, or does not take effect in relation to any part of the land, by reason of any such direction as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of the proviso to subsection (2) of that section, then if it is shown, on a claim made to the local planning authority, within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations under this Act that the permitted development value of that interest or, as the case may be, of that interest so far as it relates to that part of the land, is less than its compulsory purchase value, the local planning authority shall pay to the person entitled to that interest compensation (to be assessed in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule to this Act) equal to the difference.

(4)For the purposes of the last foregoing subsection the expression " permitted development value," in relation to an interest in land in respect of which any such direction as is mentioned in that subsection has been given, means the value of that interest calculated with regard to the direction and to any determination of the Central Land Board under subsection (4) of section sixty-seven of this Act, but on the assumption that no permission would be granted under this Part of this Act otherwise than in accordance with the direction; and the expression " compulsory purchase value," in relation to any such interest means the value of that interest as it would be assessed in accordance with the provisions of section forty-eight of this Act for the purpose of ascertaining the compensation payable on a purchase thereof in pursuance of the purchase notice.

(5)Where any such permission as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section is granted by the Secretary of State subject to conditions, or where any permission required to be granted by any such direction as is mentioned in subsection (3) of this section would be so granted subject to conditions, being in either case conditions for regulating the design or external appearance of buildings, or the size or height of buildings, or, in the case of permission to be granted in accordance with any such direction as aforesaid, for regulating the number of buildings to be erected on the land, then if it appears to the Secretary of State that it is reasonable, having regard to the local circumstances, so to do, he may direct that those conditions shall be disregarded, either altogether, or to such extent as may be specified in the direction, in assessing the compensation (if any) payable under the said subsection (1) or under the said subsection (3), as the case may be.

(6)Except as provided by subsection (3) of this section, no compensation shall be payable under this section in respect of any interest in land in respect of which a purchase notice is served under section seventeen of this Act.

19Revocation and modification of planning permission.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, if it appears to the local planning authority that it is expedient, having regard to the development plan and to any other material considerations, that any planning permission granted on an application made in that behalf should be revoked or modified, they may by order revoke or modify the permission to such extent as appears to them to be expedient as aforesaid:

Provided that no such order shall take effect unless it is confirmed by the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State may confirm any order submitted to him for the purpose either without modification or subject to such modifications as he considers expedient.

(2)Where a local planning authority submit an order to the Secretary of State for his confirmation under this section, that authority shall serve notice on the owner, on the lessee and on the occupier of the land affected, and on any other person who in their opinion will be affected by the order; and if within such period as may be prescribed in that behalf in the notice (not being less than twenty-eight days from the service thereof) any person on whom the notice is served so requires, the Secretary of State shall, before confirming the order, afford to him, and to the local planning authority, an opportunity of appearing before and being heard by a person appointed by the Secretary of State for the purpose.

(3)The power conferred by this section to revoke or modify planning permission may be exercised—

(a)where the permission relates to the carrying out of building or other operations, at any time before those operations have been completed ;

(b)where the permission relates to a change of the use of any land, at any time before the change has taken place:

Provided that the revocation or modification of permission for 'the carrying out of building or other operations shall not 'affect so much of those operations as has been carried out before the date on which the order was confirmed as aforesaid.

20Supplementary provisions as to revocation and modification of planning permission.

(1)Where planning permission is revoked or modified by an order made under the last foregoing section, then if, on a claim made to the local planning authority within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations under this Act, it is shown that any person interested in the land concerned has incurred expenditure in carrying out work which is rendered abortive by the revocation or modification, or has otherwise sustained loss or damage which is directly attributable to the revocation or modification, that authority shall pay to that person compensation in respect of that expenditure, loss or damage:

Provided that unless either—

(a)any sum has been paid under Part VI of this Act by way of development charge in respect of the development to which the permission relates; or

(b)no such charge is payable in respect of that development by virtue of any of the provisions of Part VII of this Act;

no compensation shall be payable under this subsection in respect of loss or damage consisting of the depreciation in value of any interest in the land by virtue of the revocation or modification.

(2)For the purposes of this section any expenditure incurred in the preparation of plans for the purposes of any work or upon other similar matters preparatory thereto shall be deemed to be included in the expenditure incurred in carrying out that work, but except as aforesaid no compensation shall be paid under this section in respect of any work carried out .before the grant of the planning permission which is revoked or modified, or in respect of any other loss or damage (not being loss or damage consisting of the depreciation in value of an interest in land) arising out of anything done or omitted to be done before the grant of that permission.

(3)Where planning permission granted by a development order has been withdrawn, whether by the revocation or amendment of the order or by the issue of directions under powers in that behalf conferred by the order, then if, on an application made in that behalf, planning permission is refused or is granted subject to conditions other than those previously imposed by the development order, the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply as if the planning permission granted by the development order had been granted by the local planning authority and had been revoked or modified by an order under the last foregoing section.

(4)The provisions of section seventeen of this Act shall apply in relation to an order made under the last foregoing section revoking planning permission or modifying any such permission by the imposition of conditions, as they apply in relation to the refusal of an application for such permission or the grant of such an application subject to conditions, and in any such case the said section seventeen shall have effect subject to the following modifications:—

(a)in paragraph (b) of subsection (1), for the words "in a case where planning permission was granted as aforesaid subject to conditions " there shall be substituted the words " in a case where the planning permission was modified by the imposition of conditions "; and

(b)for paragraph (a) of the, proviso to subsection (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(a)if it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient so to do he may, in lieu of confirming the purchase notice, cancel the order revoking the planning permission or, where the order' modified the permission by the imposition of conditions, revoke or amend those conditions so far as appears to him to be required in order to enable the land to be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of the development in respect of which the permission was granted”;

(5)Where the planning permission which is revoked or modified by an order under the last foregoing section is permission of any such class as is mentioned in subsection (1) of section eighteen of this Act, the provisions of that section shall apply as if for references therein to the refusal of the permission or the imposition of conditions on the grant thereof there were substituted references to the revocation of permission or the modification thereof by the imposition of conditions, and subsection (1) of that section shall have effect as if for the words " if the permission had been granted or had been granted unconditionally " there were substituted the words " if the permission had not been revoked or had not been modified. "

(6)Where, by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section, compensation is payable in respect of expenditure incurred in carrying out any work on land, then if a purchase notice is served under section seventeen of this Act in respect of any interest in that land, or a claim for compensation is made in respect of any such interest under subsection (1) of section eighteen of this Act, any compensation payable in respect of the acquisition of that interest under the said section seventeen or, as the case may be, any compensation payable in respect of that interest under the said section eighteen, shall be reduced by an amount equal to the value of the works in respect of which compensation is payable under this section.

(7)Any compensation payable under this section in respect of loss or damage consisting of depreciation in value of an interest in land shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule to this Act; and in calculating the amount of any such depreciation it shall be assumed that permission would be granted under this Part of this Act for development of the land of any class specified in the Third Schedule to this Act.

21Enforcement of planning control.

(1)If it appears to the local planning authority that any development of land has been carried out after the appointed day without the grant of planning permission in that behalf, or that any conditions subject to which such permission was granted in respect of any development have not been complied with, then, subject to any directions given by the Secretary of State, the local planning authority may, within two years after it has come to their knowledge that such development has been so carried out or that such conditions have not been complied with, if they consider it expedient so to do having regard to the provisions of the development plan and to any other material considerations, serve on the owner, on the lessee and on the occupier of the land a notice under this section.

(2)Any notice served under this section (hereinafter called an " enforcement notice") shall specify the development which is alleged to have been carried out without the grant of planning permission or, as the case may be, the matters in respect of which it is alleged that any such conditions as aforesaid have not been complied with, and may require such steps as may be specified in the notice to be taken within such period after the date on which the notice takes effect as may be so specified for restoring the land to its condition before the development took place, or for securing compliance with the conditions, as the case may be; and in particular any such notice may, for the purpose aforesaid, require the demolition or alteration of any buildings or works, the discontinuance of any use of land, or the carrying out on land of any building or other operations.

(3)Subject to the provisions of the next following subsection, an enforcement notice shall take effect at the expiration of such period (not being less than twenty-eight days after the service thereof) as may be specified therein:

Provided that if within the period aforesaid an application is made to the local planning authority under this Part of this Act for permission for the retention on the land of any buildings or works, or for the continuance of any use of the land, to which the enforcement notice relates, the notice shall not take effect until the expiry of the like period after the final determination of that application, and if such permission as aforesaid is granted on that application, the notice shall not take effect.

(4)If any person on whom an enforcement notice is served under this section is aggrieved by the notice, he may, at any time within the period specified in the notice as the period at the expiration of which the notice will take effect or, where an application has been made under the proviso to the last foregoing subsection, within the like period after the final determination of that application, appeal against the notice to the sheriff; and on any such appeal the sheriff—

(a)if satisfied that planning permission was granted for the development to which the notice relates, or that no such, permission was required in respect thereof, or, as the case may be, that the conditions subject to which such permission was granted have been complied with, shall quash the notice to which the appeal relates;

(b)if not so satisfied, but satisfied that the requirements of the notice exceed what is necessary for restoring the land to its condition before the development took place, or for securing compliance with the conditions, as the case may be, shall vary the notice accordingly;

(c)in any other case shall dismiss the appeal:

Provided that—

(i)at any stage of the proceedings on such an appeal to him the sheriff may, and shall if so directed by the Court of Session, state a case for the opinion of the Court of Session on any question of law arising in connection with the appeal; and

(ii)where the enforcement notice is varied or the appeal is dismissed, then, without prejudice to the provisions of the proviso to subsection (3) of this section, the; 'sheriff may, if he thinks fit, direct that the enforcement notice shall not come into force until such date (not being later than twenty-eight days from the determination of the appeal) as he thinks fit.

22Supplementary provisions as to enforcement.

(1)If within the period specified in an enforcement notice, or within such extended period as the local planning authority may allow, any steps required by the notice to be taken (other than the discontinuance of any use of land) have not been taken, the local planning authority may enter on the land and take those steps, and may recover as a civil debt from the person who is then the owner or the lessee of the land any expenses reasonably incurred by them in that behalf; and if that person, having been entitled to appeal to the sheriff under the last foregoing section, failed to make such an appeal, he shall not be entitled in proceedings under this subsection to dispute the validity of the action taken in accordance with the notice by the local planning authority.

(2)Any expenses incurred by the owner, the lessee or the occupier of any land for the purpose of complying with an enforcement notice served under the last foregoing section in respect of any development, and any sums paid by the owner or by the lessee of any land under the foregoing subsection in respect of the expenses of the local planning authority in taking steps required to be taken by such a notice, shall be recoverable as a civil debt from the person by whom the development was carried out.

(3)Where, by virtue of an enforcement notice, any use of land is required to be discontinued, or any conditions are required to be complied with in respect of any use of land or in respect of the carrying out of any operations thereon, then if any person, without the grant of planning permission, uses the land or causes or permits the land to be used, or carries out or causes or permits to be carried out those operations, in contravention of the notice, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds; and if the use is continued after the conviction, he shall be guilty of a further offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds for every day on which the use is so continued.

(4)Nothing in this Part of this Act shall be construed as requiring planning permission to be obtained for the use of any land for the purpose for which it could lawfully have been used under this Part of this Act if the development in respect of which an enforcement notice is served under the last foregoing section had not been carried out.

(5)Provision may be made by regulations under this Act for applying in relation to steps required to be taken by an enforcement notice under the last foregoing section either or both of the following provisions of the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 42.] Water (Scotland) Act, 1946, that is to say—

(a)section fifty-seven (which limits the liability of persons holding premises as agents or trustees in respect of the expenses recoverable under Part III of that Act); and

(b)section sixty-eight (which confers power to require the occupier of premises to permit works to be executed by the owner of the premises);

subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the regulations.

23Agreements regulating development or use of land.

(1)A local planning authority may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, enter into an agreement with any person interested in land in their area (in so far as the interest of that person enables him to bind the land) for the purpose of restricting or regulating the development or use of the land, either permanently or during such period as may be prescribed by the agreement, and any such agreement may contain such incidental and consequential provisions (including provisions of a financial character) as appear to the local planning authority to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the agreement.

(2)An agreement made under this section with any person interested in land, may, if the agreement shall have been recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines, be enforceable at the instance of the authority against persons deriving title to the land from the person with whom the agreement was entered into:

Provided that no such agreement shall at any time be enforceable against a third party who shall have in bona fide onerously acquired right (whether completed by infeftment or not) to the land prior to the agreement being recorded as aforesaid or against any person deriving title from such third party.

(3)Nothing in this section or in any agreement made thereunder shall be construed as restricting the exercise, in relation to land which is the subject of any such agreement, of any powers exercisable by any Minister or authority under this Act, so long as those powers are exercised in accordance with the provisions of the development plan or in accordance with any directions which may have been given by the Secretary of State under section thirty-three of this Act, or as requiring the exercise of any such powers otherwise than as aforesaid.

Additional powers of control.

24Powers relating to authorised uses.

(1)Without prejudice to the provisions of this Part of this Act with respect to the service of enforcement notices, if it appears f6' a local planning authority that it is expedient in the interests of the proper planning of their area (including the interests of amenity), regard being had to the development plan and to any other material considerations—

(a)that any use of land should be discontinued, or that any conditions should be imposed on the continuance thereof, or

(b)that any buildings or works should be altered or removed,

they may by order require the discontinuance of that use, or impose such conditions as may be specified in the order on the continuance thereof, or require such steps as may be so specified to be taken for the alteration or removal of the buildings or works, as the case may be;

Provided that no such order shall take effect unless it is confirmed by the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State may confirm any order submitted to him for the purpose either without modification or subject to such modifications as he considers expedient.

(2)Where a local planning authority submit an order to the Secretary of State for his confirmation under this section, that authority shall serve notice on the owner, on the lessee and on the occupier of the land affected, and on any other person who in their opinion will be affected by the order; and if within the period specified in that behalf in the notice (not being less than twenty-eight days from the service thereof) any person on whom the notice is served so requires, the Secretary of State shall, before confirming the order, afford to that person, and to the local planning authority, an opportunity of appearing before and being heard by a person appointed by the Secretary of State for the purpose.

(3)Where an order under this section has been confirmed by the Secretary of State, a copy of the order shall be served by the local planning authority on the owner, on the lessee and on the occupier of the land to which the order relates.

(4)Where, by virtue of an order made under this section, the use of any land for any purpose is required to be discontinued, or any conditions are imposed on the continuance thereof, then if any person, without the grant of permission in that behalf under this Part of this Act, uses the land for that purpose or, as the case may be, uses the land for that purpose in contravention of those conditions, or causes or permits the land to be so used, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds; and if the use is continued after conviction, he shall be guilty of a further offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds for every day on which the use is so continued.

(5)If within the period prescribed in that behalf by an order under this section any steps required by that order to be taken for the alteration or removal of any buildings or works have not been taken, the local planning authority may, and shall if so required by directions of the Secretary of State, enter on the land and take those steps.

(6)An order under this section may grant permission for any development of the land to which the order relates subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order; and the provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply in relation to any permission so granted as they apply in relation to permission granted by the local planning authority on an application in that behalf made thereunder.

(7)Where the requirements of any order under this section will involve the displacement of persons residing in any premises, it shall be the duty of the local planning authority, in so far as there is not other residential accommodation suitable to the reasonable requirements of those persons available on reasonable terms, to secure the provision of such accommodation in advance of the displacement.

25Provisions supplementary to s. 24.

(1)Where an order is made under the last foregoing section requiring any use of land to be discontinued, or imposing conditions on the continuance thereof, or requiring any buildings or works on land to be altered or removed, then if, on a claim made to the local planning authority within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations under this Act, it is shown that any person has suffered damage in consequence of the order by the depreciation of any interest in the land to which he is entitled or by being disturbed in his enjoyment of the land, that authority shall pay to that person compensation in respect of that damage; and any compensation payable under this subsection in respect of the depreciation in the value of an interest in the land shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule to this Act.

(2)Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this section and subject to the provisions of paragraph 4 of the Fourth Schedule to this Act, any person who carries out any works in compliance with an order under the last foregoing section shall be entitled, on a claim made as aforesaid, to recover from the local planning authority compensation in respect of any expenses reasonably incurred by him in that behalf.

(3)If any person entitled to an interest in land in respect of which an order is made under the last foregoing section claims that by reason of the order the land is incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state, and 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 serve a purchase notice in respect of his interest in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) of section seventeen of this Act; and in relation to a purchase notice so served the provisions of the said section seventeen shall apply as they apply in relation to a notice served under subsection (1) of that section, subject to the following modifications :—

(a)in subsection (2), for the words " the conditions specified in the foregoing .subsection " there shall be substituted the words " the conditions specified in subsection (3) of section twenty-five of this Act ";

(b)for paragraph (a) of the.; proviso to the said subsection (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(a)if it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient so to do he may, in lieu of confirming the purchase notice, revoke the order under section twenty-four 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 any interest in land is served under the said section seventeen in consequence of an order made in relation to the land under the last foregoing section, then if that interest is purchased in accordance with the said section seventeen, or if compensation is payable in respect thereof under subsection (3) of section eighteen of this Act, no compensation shall be payable under this section in respect of that order.

(5)Except as provided by this section, no purchase notice shall be served under the said section seventeen in respect of an interest in land while the land is incapable of reasonably beneficial use by reason only of an order made under the last foregoing section.

26Orders for preservation of and woodlands.

(1)If it appears to a local planning authority that it is expedient in the interests of amenity to make provision for the preservation of trees or woodlands in their district, they may for that purpose make an order (in this Act referred to as a " tree preservation order ") with respect to such trees, groups of trees or woodlands as may be specified in the order; and, in particular, provision may be made by any such order—

(a)for prohibiting (subject to any exemptions for which provision may be made by the order) the cutting down, topping, lopping or wilful destruction of trees except with the consent of the local planning authority, and for enabling that authority to give their consent subject to conditions;

(b)for securing the replanting, in such manner as may be prescribed by or under the order, of any part of a woodland area which is felled in the course of forestry operations permitted by or under the order;

(c)for applying, in relation to any consent under the order, and to applications therefor, any of the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to planning permission, and to applications for such permission, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the order.

(2)An order made under the last- foregoing subsection may provide for the payment by the local planning authority, subject to such exceptions and conditions as may be specified in the order, of compensation in respect of damage or expenditure caused or incurred in consequence of the refusal of any consent required under the order, or of the grant of any such consent subject to conditions.

(3)A tree preservation order shall not be made in respect of woodlands which are the subject of a forestry dedication agreement under the [10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 21.] Forestry Act, 1947, or in respect of which advances have been made by the Forestry Commissioners under the Forestry Acts, 1919 to 1947.

(4)A tree preservation order shall not take effect until it is confirmed by the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State may confirm any such order either without modification or subject to such modifications as he considers expedient. As soon as may be after a tree preservation order is so confirmed, it shall be recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines by the local planning authority.

(5)Provision may be made by regulations under this Act with respect to the form of tree preservation orders and the procedure to be followed in connection with the submission and confirmation of such orders, and such regulations shall, in particular, make provision for securing—

(a)that notice shall be given to the owners, lessees and occupiers of land affected by any such order of the submission to the Secretary, of State of the order;

(b)that objections and representations with respect to the proposed order duly made in accordance with the regulations shall be considered before the order is confirmed by the Secretary of State; and

(c)that copies of the order when confirmed by the Secretary of State shall be served on the owners, lessees and occupiers of the land to which it relates:

Provided that where it appears to the Secretary of State that any such order should take effect immediately, he may confirm the order provisionally without complying with the requirements of any such regulations with respect to the consideration of objections and representations, but any order so confirmed shall cease to have effect upon the expiration of two months from the date on which it is so confirmed unless within that period it has again been confirmed, with or without modifications, after compliance with those requirements.

(6)If any person contravenes the provisions of a tree preservation order, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds; and if, in the case of a continuing offence, the contravention is continued after the conviction, he shall be guilty of a further offence and liable on summary conviction to an additional fine not exceeding forty shillings for every day on which the contravention is so continued:

Provided that nothing in a tree preservation order shall prohibit the felling or lopping of any tree if such felling or lopping is urgently necessary in the interests of safety, or is necessary for the prevention or abatement of a nuisance, so long as notice in writing of the proposed operations is given to the local planning authority as soon as may be after the necessity for the operations arises, or if such felling or lopping is carried out in compliance with any obligation imposed by or under any Act of Parliament.

27Orders for the preservation of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.

(1)If it appears to a local planning authority that it is expedient to make provision for the preservation of any building of special architectural or historic interest iii their district, they may for that purpose make an order (in this Act referred to as a " building preservation order ") restricting the demolition, alteration or extension of the building:

Provided that no such order shall be made in relation to a building being—

(a)an ecclesiastical building which is for the time being used for ecclesiastical purposes;

(b)a building which is the subject of a scheme or order under the enactments for the time being in force with respect to ancient monuments; or

(c)a building for the time being included in a list of monuments published by the Minister of Works under any such enactment as aforesaid;

and no such order shall be made so as to affect the powers of the Minister of Works under any such enactment as aforesaid.

(2)Provision may be made by a building preservation order for requiring the consent of the local planning authority to be obtained for the execution of works of any description specified in the order, and for applying, in relation to such consent and to applications therefor, any of the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to planning permission and to applications for such permission, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the order; and provision may be made by such an order for the payment by that authority, subject to such exceptions and conditions as may be specified in the order, of compensation in respect of damage or expenditure caused or incurred in consequence of the refusal of any consent required under the order, or the grant of any such consent subject to conditions.

(3)A building preservation order shall not take effect until it is confirmed by the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State may confirm any such order either without modification or subject to such modifications as he considers expedient:

Provided that such an order requiring the consent of the local planning authority to be obtained for the execution of any works shall not be made by the authority or confirmed by the Secretary of State, unless the authority or the Secretary of State is satisfied that the execution of the works would seriously affect the character of the building.

As soon as may be after a building preservation order is so confirmed, it shall be recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines by the local planning authority.

(4)Provision may be made by regulations under this Act with respect to the form of building preservation orders and the procedure to be followed in connection with the submission and confirmation of such orders, and such regulations shall, in particular, make provision for securing—

(a)that notice shall be given to the owner, to the lessee and to any occupier of the building affected by any such order of the submission to the Secretary of State of the order;

(b)that objections and representations with respect to the proposed order duly made in accordance with the regulations shall be considered before the order is confirmed by the Secretary of State; and

(c)that a copy of the order when confirmed by the Secretary of State shall be served on the owner, on the lessee and on any occupier of the building to which it relates:

Provided that where it appears to the Secretary of State that any such order should take effect immediately, he may confirm the order provisionally without complying with the requirements of any such regulations with respect to the consideration of objections and representations, but any order so confirmed shall cease to have effect upon the expiration of two months from the date on which it is so confirmed unless within that period it has again been confirmed, with or without modifications, after compliance with those requirements.

(5)If any person, being the owner of a building in relation to which a building preservation order is in force or a person upon whom a copy of such an order has been served, executes or causes or permits to be executed any works in contravention of the order, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds; and the court by whom he is convicted may require him within such period as they think proper to take such steps as they may specify for restoring the building, so far as may be, to its former state; and if within that period such steps have not been taken the court may authorise the local planning authority to enter on the land and take those steps, and to recover from him as a civil debt any expenses reasonably incurred by them in that behalf:

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall render unlawful the execution of any such works as aforesaid which are urgently necessary in the interests of safety or health or for the preservation of the building or of neighbouring property, so long as notice in writing of the proposed execution of the works is given to the local planning authority as soon as may be after the necessity for the works arises.

28Lists of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.

(1)With a view to the guidance of local planning authorities in the performance of their functions under this Act in relation to buildings of special architectural or historic interest, the Secretary of State shall compile lists of such buildings, or approve, either with or without modifications, such lists compiled by other persons or bodies of persons, and may amend any list so compiled or approved.

(2)Before compiling or approving, either with or without modifications, any list under this section, or amending any list thereunder, the Secretary of State shall consult with such persons or bodies of persons as appear to him appropriate as having special knowledge of or interest in buildings of architectural or historic interest.

(3)As soon as may be after any list has been compiled or approved under this section, or any amendments of such a list have been made, a copy of so much of the list as relates to the district of any local authority being the local planning authority or the local authority for the purposes of the Housing (Scotland) Acts, 1925 to 1946, or of so much of the amendments as relate thereto, as the case may be, certified by or on behalf of the Secretary of State to be a true copy thereof, shall be deposited with the clerk of that authority.

(4)As soon as may be after the inclusion of any building in a list under this section, whether on the compilation or approval of the list or by the amendment thereof, or as soon as may be after any such list has been amended by the exclusion of any building therefrom, the Secretary of State shall serve a notice on every owner, lessee and occupier of the building stating that the building has been included in, or excluded from, the list, as the case may be.

(5)Any list compiled by the Secretary of State, and any instrument of the Secretary of State approving or amending any list under this section, shall, as soon as may be after such list or instrument is compiled or made, be recorded by him in the appropriate Register of Sasines.

(6)So long as any building (not being a building to which an order under the last foregoing section applies or a building of any description specified in the proviso to subsection (1) of that section) is included in any list compiled or approved under this section no person shall execute or cause or permit to be executed any works for the demolition of the building or for its alteration or extension in any manner which would seriously affect its character, unless at least two months before the works are executed notice in writing of the proposed works has been given to the local planning authority:

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall render unlawful the execution of any such works as aforesaid which are urgently necessary in the interests of safety or health or for the preservation of the building or of neighbouring property, so long as notice is given as aforesaid as soon as may be after the necessity for the works arises.

(7)Where a local planning authority- receive notice of any proposed works under the last foregoing subsection, they shall as soon as may be send a copy of the notice to the Secretary of State and to such other persons or bodies of persons as may be specified by directions of the Secretary of State either generally or as respects the building in question.

(8)If any person contravenes the provisions of subsection (6) of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds; and the court by whom he is convicted may require him, within such period as they may fix, to take such steps as they think fit for so restoring the building. If, within such period or within such extended period as the court may allow, any steps required by them to be taken for restoring the building, so far as may be, to its former state, have not been taken by him, the local planning authority may enter on the land and take those steps, and may recover from him as a civil debt any expenses reasonably incurred by them in that behalf.

29Control of advertisements.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, provision may be made by regulations under this Act for restricting or regulating the display of advertisements so far as appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient in the interests of amenity or public safety, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, any such regulations may provide—

(a)for regulating the dimensions, appearance and position of advertisements which may be displayed, the sites on which such advertisements may be displayed, and the manner in which, they are to be affixed to land;

(b)for requiring the consent of the local planning authority to be obtained for the display of advertisements, or of advertisements of any class specified in the regulations;

(c)for applying, in relation to any such consent and to applications therefor, any of the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to planning permission and to applications for such permission, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the regulations;

(d)for enabling the local planning authority to require the removal of any advertisement which is being displayed in contravention of the regulations or the discontinuance of the use for the display of advertisements of any site which is being used for that purpose in contravention of the regulations, and for that purpose for applying any of the provisions of this Part of this Act with respect to enforcement notices, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the regulations;

(e)for the constitution, for the purposes of the regulations, of such advisory committees as may be prescribed by the regulations, and for determining the manner in which the expenses of any such committee are to be defrayed.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by paragraph (c) of the foregoing subsection, regulations made for the purposes of this section may provide that any appeal from the decision of the local planning authority-on an application for their consent under the regulations shall lie to an independent tribunal constituted in accordance with the regulations instead of to the Secretary of State.

(3)Regulations made for the purposes of this section may make different provision with respect to different areas, and in particular may make special provision with respect to areas defined for the purposes of the regulations as areas of special control (being either rural areas or areas other than rural areas which appear to the Secretary of State to require special protection on grounds of amenity); and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision may prohibit the display in any such area of all advertisements, except advertisements of such classes, if any, as may be specified in the regulations._

(4)Areas of special control for the purposes of regulations under this section may be defined either by reference to provisions included in that behalf in development plans or by means of orders made or approved by the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of the regulations:

Provided that where the Secretary of State is authorised by the regulations to make or approve any such order as aforesaid, the regulations shall provide for the publication of notice of the proposed order in such manner as may be prescribed by the regulations, for the consideration of objections duly made thereto, and for the holding of such inquiries or other hearings as may be so prescribed, before the order is made or approved.

(5)Subject as hereinafter provided, regulations made under this section may be made so as to apply to advertisements which are being displayed on the date on which the regulations come into force, or to the use for the display of advertisements of any site which was being used for that purpose on that date:

Provided that any such regulations shall provide for exempting therefrom—

(a)the continued display of any such advertisement as aforesaid, and

(b)the continued use for the display of advertisements of any such site as aforesaid,

during such period as may be prescribed in that behalf by the regulations, and different periods may be so prescribed for the purposes of different provisions of the regulations.

(6)Nothing in this section or in any regulations made thereunder shall be construed as authorising the restriction, or regulation of the display of any advertisement by reason only of the subject matter or wording thereof.

30Provisions supplementary to s. 29.

(1)Where the display of advertisements in accordance with regulations made under the last foregoing section involves the development of land within the meaning of this Act, planning permission for that development shall be deemed to be granted by virtue of this section, and no application shall be necessary in that behalf under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act.

(2)Where for the purpose of complying with any such regulations as aforesaid, works are carried out by any person for the removal of advertisements being displayed on the date on which the regulations come into force or the discontinuance of the use for the display of advertisements of any site used for that purpose on that date, that person shall be entitled, on a claim made to the local planning authority within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations under this Act, to recover from that authority compensation in respect of any expenses reasonably incurred by him in that behalf:

Provided that no compensation shall be payable under this subsection in respect of the removal of any advertisement which was not being displayed on the seventh day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-seven.

(3)Without prejudice to any provisions included in regulations made under the last foregoing section by virtue of paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of that section, if any person displays an advertisement in contravention of the provisions of the regulations, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of such amount as may be prescribed by the regulations, not exceeding fifty pounds and, in the case of a continuing offence, forty shillings for each day during which the offence continues after conviction.

(4)For the purposes of the last foregoing subsection and without prejudice to the generality thereof a person shall be deemed to display an advertisement if—

(a)the advertisement is displayed on land of which he is the owner or occupier; or

(b)the advertisement gives publicity to his goods, trade, business or other concerns:

Provided that a person shall not be guilty of an offence under the said subsection by reason only that an advertisement is displayed on land of which he is the owner or occupier, or that his goods, trade, business or other concerns are given publicity by the advertisement, if he proves that it was displayed without his knowledge or consent.

31Powers relating to ruinous or dilapidated buildings, waste land, etc.

(1)Where it appears to the local planning authority that the amenity of any land is seriously injured by reason of the ruinous or dilapidated condition of any building in their district or by the condition of any derelict, waste, neglected or other land in their district, then, subject to any directions given by the Secretary of State, the authority may serve on the owner, on the lessee and on the occupier of the building or land a notice requiring such steps for. abating the injury as may be specified in the notice to be taken within such period as may be so specified:

Provided that no such notice may be served with reference to any building which is—

(a)a building which is the subject of a scheme or order under the enactments for the time being in force with respect to ancient monuments, or

(b)a building for the time being included in a list of monuments published by the Minister of Works under any such enactment as aforesaid.

(2)In relation to any notice served under this section the provisions of subsections (3) and (4) of section twenty-one of this Act, and of subsections (1), (2) and (5) of section twenty-two of this Act shall, subject to any necessary modifications, apply as those provisions apply in relation to an enforcement notice served under the said section twenty-one.

Supplemental.

32Application to local authorities and statutory undertakers.

(1)Where the sanction of a government department other than the Secretary of State is required by virtue of any enactment in respect of development to be carried out by any local authority or by any statutory undertakers not being a local authority, that department may, upon granting that sanction, direct that planning permission for that development shall be deemed to be granted subject to such conditions (if any) as may be specified in the directions: and the provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply in relation to any permission deemed to be granted by virtue of such directions as if the application for that permission had been granted by the Secretary of State on an application referred to him under section thirteen of this Act.

(2)Without prejudice to the provisions of the foregoing subsection, the provisions set out in the Fifth Schedule to this Act (being provisions re-enacting with additions and modifications sections thirty-four and thirty-five of the Act of 1945) shall have effect for the purposes of the application of this Part of this Act to land of statutory undertakers being operational land as defined by this Act, and to the development of such land by such undertakers:

Provided that the provisions of the said Schedule shall not apply in relation to the display of advertisements on. operational land.

(3)In relation to land of local planning authorities and to the development by local authorities of land in respect of which they are the local planning authority, the provisions of this Part of this Act (including, in the case of a local planning authority who carry on a statutory undertaking, the last foregoing subsection and the Fifth Schedule to this Act) shall have effect subject to such exceptions and modifications as may be prescribed by regulations made under this Act, and in particular such regulations may (subject to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section) provide for securing—

(a)that any application by such an authority for planning permission to develop such land, or for any other consent required in relation to such land under this Part of this Act, shall be made to the Secretary of State instead of to the local planning authority;

(b)that any notice or order authorised to be served or made under this Part of this Act in relation to such land shall be served or made by the Secretary of State instead of by that authority.

(4)For the purposes of this section and of the Fifth Schedule to this Act development by a local authority or by statutory undertakers shall be deemed to be sanctioned by a government department if—

(a)any consent, authority or approval to or for the development is granted by the department in pursuance of any enactment;

(b)a compulsory purchase order is confirmed by the department authorising the purchase of land for the purpose of the development;

(c)consent is granted by the department to the appropriation of land for the purpose of the development, or the acquisition of land by agreement for that purpose;

(d)authority is given by the department for the borrowing of money for the purpose of the development, or for the application for that purpose of any money not otherwise so applicable; or

(e)any undertaking is given by the department to pay a grant in respect of the development in accordance with any enactment authorising the payment of such grants,

and references in this section and in the said Fifth Schedule to the sanction of a government department shall be construed accordingly.

33Temporary provisions pending approval of plans.

Where, under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, a local planning authority are required to have regard to the provisions of the development plan in relation to the exercise of any of their functions, then, in relation to the exercise of those functions during any period "before such a plan has become operative with respect to the district of that authority, that authority shall have regard to any directions which may be given to them by the Secretary of State as to the provisions to be included in such a plan, and subject to any such directions shall have regard to the provisions which in their opinion will be required to be so included for securing the proper planning of the said district.

PART IIIAcquisition of Land, Etc.

Acquisition and disposal of land for planning purposes.

34Compulsory acquisition by Ministers, local authorities and statutory undertakers.

(1)Where any land is designated by a development plan as subject to compulsory acquisition by any Minister, local authority or statutory undertakers, that Minister or authority or those undertakers may be authorised to acquire that land compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(2)If, during the period before a development plan has become operative under this Act with respect to any district—

(a)the Secretary of State and the Minister of Works are satisfied that the acquisition of any land in that district is necessary for the public service or otherwise for the purposes of any of the functions of the Minister of Works; or

(b)the Secretary of State and the Postmaster-General are satisfied that the acquisition of any such land is necessary for the purposes of the Post Office,

the Minister of Works or the Postmaster-General, as the case may be, may be authorised to purchase that land compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(3)The compulsory acquisition of land under this section may be authorised—

(a)in the case of land designated by a development plan as subject to acquisition by a Minister, by that Minister;

(b)in the case of land so designated as subject to acquisition by a local authority, by the Minister concerned with the function in question;

(c)in the case of land so designated as subject to acquisition by any statutory undertakers, by the Minister who is the appropriate Minister for the purposes of those undertakers;

(d)in the case of such land as is mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, by the Minister of Works or the Postmaster-General, as the case may be.

(4)The Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, shall apply to the compulsory acquisition of land under this section, and accordingly shall have effect—

(a)as if this section had been in force immediately before the commencement of that Act;

(b)as if any reference in that Act to a local authority (except the references thereto in subsection (2) of section one and in paragraph 9 of the First Schedule) included a reference to statutory undertakers; and

(c)as if references therein to the Minister of Transport and to the enactments specified in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one of that Act included respectively references to any Minister and to the provisions of this section.

(5)Any expenses incurred by the Minister of Transport in the acquisition of land under this section for the purpose of the construction or improvement of a road shall be defrayed out of the Road Fund.

35Compulsory acquisition by local planning authorities of land for development.

(1)Where any land is designated by a development plan as subject to compulsory acquisition by the appropriate local authority, then if the Secretary of State is satisfied—

(a)in the case of land comprised in an area defined by the plan as an area of comprehensive development, that the land is required in order to secure the development or redevelopment of the said area or that it is expedient in the public interest that the land should be held together with land so required;

(b)in any other case, that it is necessary that the land should be acquired under this section for the purpose of securing its use in the manner proposed by the plan,

he may authorise the local planning authority to acquire the land compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(2)If, during the period before a development plan has become operative under this Act with respect to any area, the Secretary of State is satisfied that the acquisition of any land under this section is expedient

(a)for any purpose which appears to him to be immediately necessary in the interests of the proper planning of that area (not being a purpose for which a local authority could be authorised to acquire the land compulsorily under any other enactment);

(b)for any other purpose for which, by virtue of paragraph (c) or (d.) of subsection (1) of section ten of the Act of 1945 a local planning authority could be authorised to acquire land before the appointed day,

he may authorise the local planning authority to acquire the land compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(3)Where, under the foregoing provisions of this section, the Secretary of State has power to authorise the local planning, authority to acquire any land compulsorily, he may, if he thinks fit after consultation with the local planning authorities concerned, authorise the land to be so acquired by any other local planning authority instead of by that authority.

(4)The Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, shall apply to the compulsory acquisition of land under this section and accordingly shall have effect as if this section had been in force immediately before the commencement of that Act:

Provided that section two of the said Act (which confers temporary powers for the speedy acquisition of land in urgent cases) shall not apply to the compulsory acquisition of land under this section.

36Power to expedite completion of purchase under s. 35.

(1)If the Secretary of State is satisfied, in the case of a compulsory purchase order submitted to him under the last foregoing section by a local planning authority, that it is urgently necessary in the public interest to empower that authority to enter on the whole or any part of the land to which the order relates and secure its vesting in them before the expiration of the time which would be required for the service of notices to treat, he may include in the order as confirmed by him a direction that the provisions of the Sixth Schedule to the Act of 1945 shall apply to the order so far as it relates to that land :

Provided that no such direction shall be so included in a compulsory purchase order unless application in that behalf is included in the order as submitted to the Secretary of State.

(2)A compulsory purchase order which contains any such direction as aforesaid shall, as soon as may be after the order becomes operative, be recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines by the local planning authority.

(3)Where a compulsory purchase order containing any such direction as aforesaid is made in respect of any interest in land which has sustained war damage, then, if any of that damage has not been made good at the date on which notice to treat is deemed to have been served, the local planning authority snail, when they record the order in the appropriate Register of Sasines, notify the War Damage Commission of that action having been taken.

(4)Any reference in the Sixth Schedule to the Act of 1945 to a purchase order providing for expedited completion, or to the purchasing authority, shall be construed as a reference to a compulsory purchase order containing any such direction as aforesaid, and to the local planning authority authorised to acquire land by that order, as the case may be.

(5)Paragraph 3 of the Second Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947 (which provides for entry on land before the purchase money has been paid, notwithstanding the provisions of sections eighty-three to eighty-eight of the [8 & 9 Vict. c. 10.] Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845) and paragraph 4 of that Schedule (which makes special provision, in substitution for section ninety of the said Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, with respect to the sale of parts of houses and other premises) shall not apply to a compulsory purchase order containing any such direction as aforesaid.

37Acquisition of land by agreement for development.

(1)A local planning authority may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, acquire by agreement any land (whether or not being land designated by a development plan as subject to compulsory acquisition) which they require for any purpose for which a local planning authority may be authorised to acquire land compulsorily under section thirty-five of this Act.

(2)The Lands Clauses Acts (except the provisions relating to the purchase of land otherwise than by agreement and the provisions relating to access to the special Act, and except sections one hundred and twenty to one hundred and twenty-five of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845) and sections six and seventy of the [8 & 9 Vict. c. 33.] Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, and sections seventy-one to seventy-eight of that Act, as originally enacted and not as amended for certain purposes by section fifteen of the [13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 20.] Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act, 1923, shall be incorporated with this section, and in construing those Acts as so incorporated this section shall be deemed to be the special Act and references to the promoters of the undertaking or to the company shall be construed as references to the authority authorised to acquire the land under this section.

38Power to acquire buildings of special architectural or historic interest.

(1)Where a building preservation order is in force as respects any building and it appears to the Secretary of State that reasonable steps are not being taken for properly preserving the building, the Secretary of State may authorise the local planning authority to acquire compulsorily under this section the building and any land comprising or contiguous or adjacent to it which appears to the Secretary of State to be required for preserving the building or its amenities, or for affording access thereto, or for the proper control or management thereof.

(2)Where a building preservation order is in force as respects any building and it appears to the Minister of Works that reasonable steps are not being taken for properly preserving the building, that Minister may be authorised under this section to acquire compulsorily the building and any land comprising or contiguous or adjacent to it which appears to him to be required as mentioned in the foregoing subsection.

(3)The Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, shall apply to the compulsory acquisition of land under this section, and accordingly shall have effect—

(a)as if this section had been in force immediately before the commencement of that Act;

(b)as if references therein to the Minister of Transport and to the enactments specified in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one of that Act included respectively references to the Minister of Works and to the provisions of this section:

Provided that section two of the said Act (which confers temporary powers for the speedy acquisition of land in urgent cases) shall not apply to the compulsory acquisition of land under this section.

(4)Any person having an interest in any building which it is proposed to acquire compulsorily under this section may, within twenty-eight days after the service of the notice required to be served under paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, apply to the sheriff for an order prohibiting further proceedings on the compulsory purchase order, and if the sheriff is satisfied that reasonable steps are being taken for properly preserving the building, he shall make an order accordingly.

(5)Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, any power of a local planning authority to acquire land by agreement there under shall include power to acquire by agreement any building as respects which a building preservation order is in force or could be made, and any land comprising or contiguous or adjacent to it which appears to the Secretary of State to be required for the purposes specified in subsection (1) of this section.

(6)Where any building as respects which a building preservation order is in force is acquired by a local planning authority under the provisions of this section the authority shall observe the provisions of that order.

39Power of local authorities to appropriate certain land for planning purposes.

(1)Any local authority may be authorised, by order made by that authority and confirmed by the Secretary of State, to appropriate for any purpose specified in a development plan (being a purpose for which that authority can be authorised to acquire land under any enactment) any land for the time being held by them for other purposes, being land which is or forms part of a common or open space (including any such land which is specially regulated by any enactment, whether public general or local or private).

(2)Paragraph 11 of the First Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947 (which makes special provision with respect to compulsory purchase orders under that Act relating to land forming part of a common or open space) shall apply to an order under this section authorising the appropriation of land as it applies to a compulsory purchase order under that Act.

(3)Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, any power of a local authority to acquire land (whether compulsorily or by agreement) thereunder shall include power to acquire land required for giving in exchange for land appropriated under this section for any purpose specified in a development plan.

(4)Section one hundred and sixty-three of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947 (which empowers local authorities to appropriate land belonging to them) shall not apply to land which a local authority have power to appropriate under subsection (1) of this section.

(5)Where any land appropriated under this section was acquired under any enactment incorporating the Lands Clauses Acts, any work executed on the land after the appropriation has been effected shall, for the purposes of section six of the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, be deemed to have been authorised by the enactment under which the land was acquired.

40Acquisition of land by Central Land Board.

(1)The Central Land Board may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, by agreement acquire land for any purpose connected with the performance of their functions under the following provisions of this Act, and in particular may so acquire any land for the purpose of disposing of it for development for which planning permission has been granted on terms inclusive of any development charge payable under those provisions in respect of that development.

(2)If the Secretary of State is satisfied that it is expedient in the public interest that the Board should acquire any land for any such purpose as aforesaid, and that the Board are unable to acquire the land by agreement on reasonable terms, he may authorise the Board to acquire the land compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(3)Subsection (4) of section thirty-five and section thirty-six of this Act shall apply to the compulsory acquisition of land by the Central Land Board under this section as they apply to the compulsory acquisition of land by local planning authorities under the said section thirty-five; and for the purposes of this section the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, shall have effect as if any reference therein to a local authority (except the references thereto in subsection (2) of section one and in paragraph 9 of the First Schedule) included a reference to the Board.

(4)Any land acquired by the Central Land Board under the provisions of this section shall be disposed of by them by way of sale, feu or lease in accordance with such directions as may be given to them in that behalf by the Secretary of State, and until the land is so disposed of the Board shall manage it in accordance with such directions:

Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as authorising the Board to carry out any development of land acquired by them thereunder.

(5)Any expenses incurred by the Central Land Board in the acquisition of land under this section shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament; and any sums received by the Board in respect of the disposal of any such land shall be paid into the Exchequer.

(6)Provision may be made by regulations under this Act for requiring the Central Land Board to keep a register in Scotland containing such particulars as may be prescribed by the regulations of land acquired and disposed of under this section, and for the inspection of any such register by the public on payment of such reasonable fee, if any, as may be so prescribed.

41Incorporation of certain provisions of Act of 1945.

(1)Sections eighteen to twenty-nine of the Act of 1945 (which provide for the disposal and appropriation by local planning authorities of land acquired or appropriated under Part I of that Act, for the carrying out by such authorities of development of such land, and for other matters arising in relation to the acquisition of land under that Part) shall, except so far as repealed by this Act, be incorporated with this Part of this Act, subject to the amendments specified in the second column of the Eighth Schedule to this Act and to the following provisions of this section.

(2)Subsection (3) of section nineteen of the Act of 1945 (which provides that in certain cases the Secretary of State shall not give his consent to the carrying out of any operation by the local planning authority under that section if a person other than that authority is able and willing to carry out the operation) shall cease to have effect.

(3)Paragraph 8 of the Fifth Schedule to the Act of 1945 (which relates to the assessment of compensation in respect of the compulsory acquisition of certain dwelling houses unfit for human habitation) shall apply in relation to the compulsory acquisition of land under this Part of this Act subject to the amendments specified in the second column of the Eighth Schedule to this Act.

42Amendment of 10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 42, in relation to acquisition of land under Part III.

(1)Where any land is designated by a development plan as subject to compulsory acquisition for any purpose, then, if a compulsory purchase order relating to that land is submitted to the confirming authority in accordance with Part I of the First Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, or, as the case may be, is made in draft by a Minister in accordance with Part II of that Schedule, the confirming authority or that Minister, as the case may be, may disregard for the purposes of that Schedule any objection to the order or draft which, in the opinion of that authority or Minister, amounts in substance to an objection to the provisions of the development plan defining the proposed use of that or any other land.

(2)Where a compulsory purchase order authorising the acquisition of any land under section thirty-five of this Act is submitted to the Secretary of State in accordance with Part I of the said First Schedule, then if he is satisfied that the order ought to be confirmed so far as it relates to part of the land comprised therein, but has not for the time being determined whether or not it ought to be confirmed so far as it relates to any other such land, he may confirm the order so far as it relates to the first-mentioned land and give directions postponing consideration of the order so far as it relates to any other land specified in the directions until such time as may be so specified; and in any such case the notices required by paragraph 6 of the said First Schedule to be published and served shall include a statement of the effect of the directions.

(3)Paragraph 9 of the said First Schedule (which makes special provision in relation to the compulsory acquisition of land of local authorities and statutory undertakers and inalienable land of the National Trust for Scotland) shall not apply to land which is designated by a development plan as subject to compulsory acquisition.

(4)Notwithstanding anything in paragraph 10 of the said First Schedule, a compulsory purchase order may be confirmed or made under this Act authorising the acquisition of land which has been acquired by statutory undertakers for the purposes of their undertaking (whether or not the land is designated as mentioned in the last foregoing subsection) without any such certificate as is mentioned in the said paragraph 10:

Provided that except where such a certificate is given as aforesaid, or the land is designated as mentioned in the last foregoing subsection.—

(a)the order shall be of no effect unless it is confirmed or made by the appropriate Minister jointly with the Minister or Ministers who would apart from this provision have power to make or confirm it; and

(b)if any objection to the order is duly made by the statutory undertakers and is not withdrawn, the order shall be subject to special parliamentary procedure.

(5)Where any such land as is mentioned in the last foregoing subsection is compulsorily acquired without any such certificate as is therein referred to, any compensation payable to the statutory undertakers in respect of the purchase shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule to the Act of 1945.

(6)Regulations made under this Act may provide for securing that any proceedings required by the said First Schedule to be taken for the purposes of the compulsory acquisition of any land under this Act may be taken concurrently with any proceedings required by or under this Act to be taken in connection with the approval, making or amendment of a development plan designating that land as subject to compulsory acquisition.

(7)In construing the Lands Clauses Acts and section six of the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, as incorporated by virtue of paragraph 1 of the Second Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, with Part III of this Act—

(a)references to the execution of the works or to the construction of the railway shall be construed as including references to any erection, construction or carrying out of buildings or works authorised by section twenty-one of the Act of 1945 (as incorporated with this Part of this Act by virtue of section forty-one of this Act), and in relation to any such erection, construction or carrying out any reference in section six of the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, to the company shall notwithstanding anything in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 1 of the Second Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, be construed as a reference to the person by whom the buildings or works in question are erected, constructed or carried out;

(b)references to the execution of the works or to the construction of the railway shall be construed as including also references to any erection, construction or carrying out of buildings or works on behalf of a Minister, or by or on behalf of statutory undertakers, on land acquired by that Minister or those undertakers, for the purposes for which the land was acquired.

43Acquisition of land by Development Corporations under New Towns Act, 1946.

(1)For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that the powers of acquiring land conferred by the New Towns Act, 1946, on a development corporation established for the purposes of a new town include power to acquire any land within the area designated under that Act as the site of the new town whether or not it is proposed to develop or redevelop that particular land.

(2)Section five of the said Act (which regulates the disposal of land by development corporations) shall have effect as if in subsection (1), after the words " this Act " in the second place where those words occur, there were inserted the words " or for purposes connected therewith. "

Powers relating to highways.

44Construction of highways on land acquired under Part III.

(1)Section ten of the [9 Edw. 7. c. 47.] Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909 (which enables the Minister of Transport to authorise the construction of new roads in respect of which advances are made under that Act and provides for the expenses of the construction, and for the maintenance, of such roads) shall apply in relation to the construction of a new road by a local highway authority on land defined by a development plan as the site of a proposed road or on any other land acquired by of disposed of to them under this Part of this Act as if the road were a road in respect of the construction of which an advance were made to that authority under that section.

(2)Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (8) of section six of the [1 Edw. 8. & 1 Geo. 6. c. 6.] Trunk Roads Act, 1936 (which provide for contributions by local authorities towards expenses incurred by the Minister of Transport under that Act) any local authority may contribute towards any expenses incurred by a local highway authority or by the Minister of Transport in the acquisition of land under this Part of this Act or in the construction or improvement of roads on land so acquired or in connection with any development required in the interests of the proper planning of the district of the local authority.

45Construction and improvement of private streets, etc.

(1)The provisions of this section shall apply in relation to any land defined by a development plan as the site of a proposed road or as land required for the widening of an existing road.

(2)In relation to any such land as aforesaid situated in the landward area of a county the provisions of sections one hundred and thirty-three to one hundred and thirty-five, sections one hundred and thirty-seven to one hundred and forty-three, sections one hundred and fifty, one hundred and fifty-one and one hundred and fifty-four of the [55 & 56 Vict. c. 55.] Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892, and the provisions of sections sixteen to twenty-two of the [3 Edw. 7. c. 33.] Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1903 (which relate to private streets, the laying out of new streets and the improvement of streets), shall apply, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be necessary, as if the land were a street to which those provisions apply.

(3)In relation to any such land as aforesaid situated in a burgh to which the provisions of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Acts, 1892 to 1903, apply, the provisions of sections one hundred and fifty-one and one hundred and fifty-four of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892 (which relate to the laying out and improvement of streets) shall have effect, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be necessary, as if the .land were a street to which those provisions apply, and in relation to any such land as aforesaid situated in any other burgh, the corresponding provisions of any local enactments shall have effect, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be necessary, as if the land were a street to which the provisions of those enactments apply.

(4)Regulations may be made under this section for the purpose of securing—

(a)that the amount of the expenses incurred by a local highway authority and charged by them on the owners of land, frontagers or other persons under the' provisions of the enactments referred to in the last foregoing subsection shall not exceed the amount which would at the date of the commencement of the works have been the cost of the execution of street works in the course of the construction, widening or improvement if it had been carried out so as to comply with any enactments, byelaws, or regulations in operation in the area and, as respects matters for which no provision is made in any such enactments, byelaws or regulations, so as to comply with such specification as the local highway authority would at the date of the commencement of the works have required as a condition of taking over the street as a street maintainable by that authority;

(b)that as soon as the street has been made up or widened by or to the satisfaction of the local highway authority it shall become a street maintainable by that authority;

(c)that no expenses incurred in the execution of any street works shall be recoverable against agricultural land or buildings until the land or buildings cease to be agricultural land or buildings;

(d)that no expenses incurred in the execution of street works for the purpose of making a new street shall be recoverable in respect of any land (whether the site of a building or not) unless and until access is provided for and used by persons or vehicles from that land to the new street.

(5)Regulations made under this section may also provide—

(a)for the inclusion in the expenses recoverable as aforesaid in respect of street works carried out by the local highway authority of any expenses incurred by a local authority, after the date on which the land is defined and designated as mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, and before a street is constructed on the land, in the construction of sewers in or under the land; and

(b)for authorising the local highway authority to enter on any land adjoining the street for the purpose of executing street works on land comprised in the street.

(6)In this section the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—

• " agricultural land " has the like meaning as is assigned ' to the expression " agricultural lands and heritages " by section nine of the [18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 44.] Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, and " agricultural buildings " means buildings (other than dwelling houses) occupied together with agricultural land and used solely in connection with agricultural operations thereon;

• " construction " and " improvement ", in relation to a street, include the planting, laying out, maintenance and protection of trees, shrubs and grass margins in and beside the street;

• " street works " means the sewering, levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, channelling and making good a street or part of a street and providing proper means of lighting therefor.

46Power to stop up and divert highways, etc.

(1)Without prejudice to the provisions of section twenty-two of the Act of 1945, as incorporated with this Act, or section three of the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, the Minister of Transport may, if he is satisfied that it is necessary so to do in order to enable development to be carried out in accordance with planning permission or to be carried out by a government department, by order made in accordance with the provisions of the Sixth Schedule to this Act authorise the stopping up or diversion of any highway.

(2)Any order made under the foregoing subsection may make such provision as appears to the Minister of Transport to be necessary or expedient for the provision or improvement of any other highway, and may direct—

(a)that any highway so provided or improved shall be maintained and managed by the highway authority;

(b)that the said Minister, or any local authority specified in that behalf in the order, shall be the highway authority therefor;

(c)in the case of a highway for which the said Minister is to be the highway authority, that the highway shall, on such date as may be specified in the order, become a trunk road within the meaning of the Trunk Roads Acts, 1936 and 1946.

(3)The Minister of Transport or a local highway authority may be authorised to acquire land compulsorily for the purpose of providing or improving any highway which is to be provided or improved in pursuance of an order made under this section or for any other purpose for which land is required in connection with such an order; and the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947, shall apply to the compulsory acquisition of land under this section, and accordingly shall have effect—

(a)as if this section had been in force immediately before the commencement of that Act; and

(b)as if this section were included among the enactments specified in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one of that Act:

Provided that section two of the said Act (which confers temporary powers for the speedy acquisition of land in urgent cases) shall not apply to the compulsory acquisition of land under this section.

(4)Any order made under this section may contain such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister of Transport to be necessary or expedient, including in particular provision for authorising that Minister, or requiring any other authority or person specified in the order—

(a)to pay, or to make contributions in respect of, the cost of doing any work provided for by the order or any increased expenditure to be incurred which is attributable to the doing of any such work; or

(b)to repay, or to make contributions in respect of, any compensation paid by the highway authority in respect of restrictions imposed under section one or section two of the [25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 47.] Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935, as respects any highway stopped up or diverted under the order:

Provided that if objection to any such provision is duly made in accordance with the Sixth Schedule to this Act by any authority or person who would be required thereby to make any such payment, repayment or contribution as aforesaid, and is not withdrawn, the order shall be subject to special parliamentary procedure.

(5)Regulations made under this Act by the Minister of Transport may provide for securing that any proceedings required to be taken for the purposes of the acquisition of land under subsection (3) of this section may be taken concurrently with any proceedings required to be taken for the purposes of the order under this section.

(6)Section twenty-four of the Act of 1945 (which provides for the extinguishment of rights of way, and rights as to apparatus, of statutory undertakers over land acquired under this Part of this Act) shall, subject to any necessary modifications, apply in relation to any highway to which an order under this section relates as it applies in relation to land acquired by a Minister under this Part of this Act, and sections twenty-five and twenty-six of that Act shall have effect accordingly.

(7)The powers of the Minister of Transport under subsection (1) of this section shall include power to make an order authorising the stopping up or diversion of any highway which is temporarily stopped up or diverted under any other enactment; and the provisions of this section shall not prejudice any power conferred upon the Minister of Transport by any other enactment to authorise the stopping up or diversion of a highway.

(8)Section three of the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act, 1947 (which enables the Secretary of State to extinguish certain public rights ,of way over land acquired under that Act), shall apply in relation to land acquired before the commencement of that Act by a local authority, being—

(a)land acquired compulsorily under any such enactment as is specified in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section one of that Act, or

(b)land acquired by agreement for a purpose such that the land could have been so acquired compulsorily.

(9)Any expenses incurred by the Minister of Transport in the construction or improvement of roads under this section shall be defrayed out of the Road Fund, and any other expenses of that Minister under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

PART IVAmendments of Law relating to Compensation on Compulsory Acquisition of Land.

47Abolition of the 1939 standard of compensation on compulsory acquisition;.

(1)Section fifty-three of the Act of 1945 (which provides for the assessment by reference to the prices current in 1939 of the value of interests in land which are compulsorily acquired) shall not apply to compensation in respect of a compulsory acquisition of land in pursuance of a notice to treat served after the passing of this Act.

(2)The provisions of the Seventh Schedule to this Act shall have effect and shall be deemed always to have had effect in relation to land compulsorily acquired in pursuance of a notice to treat served after the seventeenth day of November nineteen hundred and forty-four and before the passing of this Act, and in relation to land acquired by agreement during that period by an authority authorised to acquire it compulsorily.

48Compensation for compulsory acquisition after appointed day.

(1)Any compensation payable in respect of the compulsory acquisition of an interest in land by a government department or a local or public authority within the meaning of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, in pursuance of a notice to treat served on or after the appointed day (not being compensation which falls to be assessed in accordance with Rule (5) of the rules set out in section two of that Act) shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of that Act as modified by the provisions of this and the three next, following sections.

(2)The value of any such interest shall be ascertained on the assumption that planning permission would be granted for development of any class specified in the Third Schedule to this Act, but would not be so granted for any other development :

Provided that—

(a)where at any time before the date of the notice to treat permission for development of the land of any class specified in Part II of the said Third Schedule has been refused or granted subject to conditions, or, having been granted, has been revoked or modified by the imposition of conditions, and compensation has become payable in respect of the refusal, revocation, or conditions, as the case may be, under section eighteen of this Act, it shall be assumed for the purposes of the ascertainment of the value of the interest in question that such permission would not be granted, or, as the case may be, would not be granted otherwise than subject to those conditions;

(b)where at any time before the said date an order has been made under section twenty-four of this Act requiring the removal of any building or the discontinuance of any use, and compensation has become payable in respect of that order under section twenty-five of this Act, it shall be assumed for the purposes aforesaid that planning permission would not be granted for the rebuilding of that building or the resumption of that use.

(3)Without prejudice to any rule of law affecting the assessment of compensation in respect of the compulsory acquisition of land in pursuance ef any enactment, no account shall be taken in calculating the value of an interest in land designated by a development plan under this Act as subject to compulsory acquisition of any depreciation in the value of that interest which is attributable to the designation.

(4)Where, at any time before the date of the notice to treat, planning permission has been granted for any development of the land, other than development of any class specified in the Third Schedule to this Act, or is deemed to have been so granted, then except where either—

(a)any sum has been paid under Part VI of this Act by way of development charge in respect of that development; or

(b)no such charge is payable in respect of that development by virtue of any of the provisions of Part VII of this Act;

the value of the interest to which the notice to treat relates shall be calculated as if that permission had not been granted.

(5)Where the interest is acquired in pursuance of a purchase notice served under section seventeen of this Act, and it is certified by the Secretary of State, on confirming the notice, that any building comprised in the land has become incapable of reasonably beneficial use, then, if the purchase notice was served in consequence of the refusal of permission for development which would have involved the demolition of the whole or substantially the whole of the building, or in consequence of the revocation or modification of such permission, no account shall be taken for the purposes of this section of the value of the building except in so far as the value of any materials therein would exceed the cost of demolition.

(6)Where the interest is acquired in pursuance of a purchase notice served under the said section seventeen, and directions have been given under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of that section requiring that planning permission shall be granted for any development of other land to which the purchase notice relates-, no account shall be taken for the purposes of this section of any increase or diminution in the value of the said interest which is attributable to the direction or to any permission granted in pursuance thereof.

49Temporary provisions for eliminating special value attributable to vacant possession.

(1)Where the notice to treat giving rise to the claim for compensation is served at any time before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and. fifty-four, and the interest in land in respect of which the compensation is payable carries the right to vacant possession of the land or any part thereof, or the right to obtain such possession at any time before that date, then, unless the land is agricultural property (that is to say, agricultural land or agricultural buildings or a farmhouse as defined in this section) the value of that interest shall be calculated as if the land, or that part thereof, as the case may be, were subject to a lease for the term, subject to the conditions and at the rent specified in this section.

(2)The term of any such lease as aforesaid shall be deemed to be a term beginning on the date of the "notice to treat and ending on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-four:

Provided that—

(a)where the interest in question is subject to an actual lease on the date of the service of the notice to treat, the said term shall be deemed to begin on the first date thereafter on which the owner of the said interest would be lawfully entitled to obtain vacant possession of the land; and

(b)where the interest in question is the interest of a tenant under a lease which is limited to expire at any time before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, the said term shall be deemed to end on the day before the expiration of that interest.

(3)The conditions of (any such lease as aforesaid shall be deemed to be conditions by virtue of which the tenant would be liable to pay all usual tenant's rates and taxes and to bear the cost of repairs and insurance and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain the land in the state in which it was on the date of the notice to treat, and the rent payable thereunder shall be deemed to be either a sum equal to five per cent. of the capital value of the premises together with such additional sum as might reasonably be expected to be payable annually by way of owner's rates during the term of such lease, or a sum equal to the rent which might reasonably be expected to be payable by a tenant in occupation of the premises, under a lease for the term and subject to the conditions aforesaid, whichever is the less.

(4)In this section the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say—

• " agricultural land " means any land used for agricultural or pastoral purposes only, or as woodlands, market gardens, orchards, allotments, or allotment gardens, any garden exceeding one-quarter acre occupied together with a house and used mainly or wholly as an allotment garden, and any land exceeding one-quarter acre used for the purpose of poultry farming, but does not include any land occupied together with a house as a park, garden or pleasure ground, or any land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for sporting purposes; and the expression '' agricultural purposes " shall be construed accordingly;

• " agricultural buildings " means buildings (other than dwelling-houses) occupied together with agricultural land, or being or forming part of a market garden, and in either case used solely in connection with agricultural operations thereon;

• " farmhouse '' means a house used as the dwelling-house of a person who is primarily engaged in carrying out or directing agricultural operations on land in the neighbourhood of the house;

and for the purposes of this section the capital value of any premises shall be deemed to be the value of the interest of the proprietor of the dominium utile, free from incumbrances but subject to any servitude or other restrictions affecting the land on the date of the notice to treat, or, in the case of land other than feudal land, of the owner thereof, calculated in accordance with the provisions of any enactment other than this section which would apply to the assessment of compensation on a compulsory acquisition thereof by a government department or a local or public authority within the meaning of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919.

(5)For the purposes of this section, an interest in land shall not be deemed to carry the right to obtain vacant possession of the land or any part thereof if at the time of the service of the notice to treat the land or that part thereof consists of a dwelling-house which is subject to the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920 to 1939, or any future enactment amending or extending those Acts, and any person other than the person entitled to that interest is for the time being in possession thereof either by virtue of a tenancy or by virtue of the provisions of the said Acts.

(6)Compensation for disturbance in respect of an interest in land the value of which is calculated in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not be assessed at any greater or less amount than that at which it would have been assessed apart from the provisions of this section.

50Compensation for compulsory acquisition of land attracting converted value payments.

(1)Where an interest in land the value of which is to be ascertained in accordance with the provisions of section forty-eight of this Act is an interest in a hereditament or part of a hereditament which has sustained war damage, and any of that damage has not been made good at the date of the notice to treat, then if the appropriate payment under the [6 & 7 Geo. 6. c. 21.] War Damage Act, 1943, would, apart from the compulsory purchase or apart from any direction given by the Treasury under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section twenty of that Act, be a payment of cost of works—

(a)the value of the interest for the purposes of the compensation payable in respect of the compulsory purchase shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be taken to be the value which it would have if the whole of the damage had been made good before the date of the notice to treat; and

(b)the right to receive any value payment or share of a value payment which, under the War Damage Act, 1943, is payable in respect of the interest which is compulsorily acquired (including any interest payable thereon) shall, notwithstanding anything in that Act, vest in the person by whom the interest is so acquired.

(2)Where, under subsection (1) of this section, the value of any interest in land comprised in a hereditament is required to be taken to be the value which that interest would have if war damage sustained by that hereditament had been made good before the date of .the notice to treat, and any works, other than works for making good the war damage, have been carried out on the land since the occurrence of the war damage, then, if the making good of the war damage would involve the removal of those works, the value of the said interest shall be taken to be—

(a)the value which it would have if the war damage had been made good and those works had been removed, or

(b)the value which it would have if the war damage had not been made good so far as the making good would have involved the removal of those works,

whichever is the higher.

(3)Where an interest in land is acquired by agreement in pursuance of a contract made after the appointed day by a person authorised by virtue of any enactment to acquire it compulsorily, being an interest in a hereditament or part of a hereditament which has sustained war damage any of which has not been made good before the date of the contract, then, if the appropriate payment under the War Damage Act, 1943, would, apart from the acquisition or apart from any "direction given by the Treasury under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section twenty of that Act, be a payment of cost of works, the right to receive any value payment or share of the value payment which, under that Act, is payable in respect of the interest so acquired (including any interest payable thereon) shall, notwithstanding anything in that Act, vest in the person by whom the interest is acquired as aforesaid.

(4)Where, by virtue of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section or of the last foregoing subsection, the right to receive a value payment or share of a value payment becomes vested in the person by whom an interest in land is acquired, whether Compulsorily or by agreement, the amount of that payment or share (including any interest thereon) shall not exceed the sum paid by that person by way of compensation or consideration in respect of the interest so acquired.

(5)Subsection (4) of section sixty-nine of the War Damage Act, 1943 (which makes special provision with respect to payments under that Act in respect of war damage sustained by hereditaments held for charitable purposes) shall not apply to any payment which, by virtue of this section, vests in the person by whom an interest in the land is acquired.

51Compensation for compulsory acquisition of requisitioned land.

(1)Except as otherwise provided by this section and Part VIII of the [8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 43.] Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1945, the value of any interest in requisitioned land shall be assessed in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act as if the land Were not requisitioned land; and in particular an interest in such land shall be deemed for the purposes of section forty-nine of this Act to carry the right to vacant possession of the land or the right to obtain such possession before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, if it would carry that right if the land were not requisitioned land.

(2)Where an interest in land the value of which falls to be ascertained in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act is acquired compulsorily in such circumstances that Part VIII of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1945, applies to the acquisition, then,—

(a)if the land is requisitioned land and the period of requisition had Begun before, the appointed day, subsection (2) of section forty-eight of this Act shall have effect as if for any reference to the appointed day in the Third Schedule to this Act there were substituted a reference to the beginning of the period of requisition;

(b)where section fifty applies, the provisions of that section shall have effect in substitution for the provisions of section forty-one of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1945, so far as it relates to the war damage and to any work done for the making good of the war damage:

Provided that for the purposes of subsection (2) of the said section fifty no account shall be taken of any such works as are mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of the said section forty-one.

(3)Where, by virtue of paragraph (a) of the last foregoing subsection, the Third Schedule to this Act applies in relation to the assessment of compensation for the compulsory acquisition of an interest in land being requisitioned land as if the beginning of the period of requisition were substituted therein for the appointed day, then, if any buildings or Works have been erected or constructed on the land during the period of requisition, and either—

(a)a payment in respect of the value of those buildings or work-s has been made by any person interested in the land to a Minister under Part II of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1945, in pursuance of a report of the War Works Commission thereunder, or

(b)any such payment or other consideration has been or is required to be made or given by any such person to a Minister in pursuance of an agreement between them, or

(c)the buildings or works were otherwise erected or constructed wholly or partly at the expense of any such person,

those buildings or works shall be treated for the purposes of the said Third Schedule as having been erected or constructed immediately before the beginning of the period of requisition.

52Compensation for compulsory acquisition after passing of this Act and before the appointed day.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply in relation to land compulsorily acquired in pursuance of a notice to treat served after the passing of this Act and before the appointed day as they apply in relation to land compulsorily acquired in pursuance of a notice to treat served after the appointed day; and subsections (3) and (4) of section fifty of this Act shall apply in relation to land acquired by agreement in pursuance of a contract made after the passing of this Act as they apply in relation to land acquired by agreement in pursuance of a contract made after the appointed day.

(2)The value of any interest in land which is compulsorily acquired as aforesaid shall be ascertained by reference to prices current immediately before the seventh day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and for that purpose the interest shall be deemed to have been subsisting immediately before that day subject to all incidents to which it_ is subject on the date of the notice to treat, and the land shall be deemed to have been immediately before the said seventh day of January in the same state as it is at the date of the notice to treat.

(3)Subsections (2) to (6) of section forty-eight of this Act shall not apply to any interest in land which is compulsorily acquired as aforesaid, but in calculating the value of any such interest it shall be assumed that the land was, at the time of the notice to treat, subject to a permanent restriction prohibiting the carrying out thereon of any development other than development of the classes specified in the Third Schedule to this Act; and for the purposes of this provision, section ten of this Act and the said Third Schedule shall have effect as if for the references therein to the appointed day there were substituted references to the date of the notice to treat.

(4)Nothing in subsection (2) of this section shall be construed as affecting the operation of Part VIII of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1945, in any case to which that Part applies; and where any land the value of an interest in which falls to be ascertained in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) of this section is requisitioned land—

(a)the Third Schedule to this Act, as applied for the purposes of the .said subsection (3), shall have effect as if for references therein to the appointed day there were substituted references to the beginning of : the period of requisition instead of references to the date of the notice to treat; and

(b)subsection (3) of section fifty-one of this Act shall apply as it applies in relation to the assessment of compensation in accordance with paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of that section.

53Special provisions as to war-damaged land where compensation assessed by reference to cost of equivalent reinstatement.

(1)Where an interest in land which is compulsorily acquired in pursuance of a notice to treat served after the passing of this Act is an interest in a hereditament or part of a hereditament which has sustained war damage, any of which has not been made good at the date of the notice to treat then if—

(a)the appropriate payment under the War Damage Act, 1943, would, apart from the compulsory acquisition or apart from any direction given by the Treasury under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section twenty of that Act, be a payment of cost of works; and

(b)the land would, but for the occurrence of the war damage, be devoted to any such purpose as is mentioned in Rule (5) of the rules set out in section two of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, the provisions of the said Rule (5) shall have effect for the purposes of the assessment of compensation payable in respect of the compulsory acquisition as if the land were so devoted as aforesaid.

(2)Where any such interest in land as is mentioned in the foregoing subsection is compulsorily acquired as therein mentioned, then, if the conditions specified in paragraph (a) of that subsection are satisfied, and the compensation payable in respect of the acquisition falls (whether by virtue of that subsection or otherwise) to be assessed in accordance with the said Rule (5), the reasonable cost of equivalent reinstatement shall be ascertained for the purposes of the said Rule (5) by reference to the state of the land immediately before the occurrence of the war damage, and the right to receive any value payment or share of a value payment which, under the War Damage Act, 1943, is payable in respect of the interest which is compulsorily acquired (including interest thereon) shall, notwithstanding anything in that Act, vest in the person by whom the interest is so acquired.

(3)Where any such interest in land as aforesaid is acquired by agreement in pursuance of a contract made after the passing of this Act by a person authorised by virtue of any enactment to acquire it compulsorily, then if the conditions specified in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section are satisfied in relation to the land, and the compensation which would be payable in respect of the acquisition, if the acquisition were compulsory, would fall (whether by virtue of the said subsection (1) or otherwise) to be assessed in accordance with the said Rule (5), the right to receive any value payment or share of a value payment which, under the War Damage Act, 1943, is payable in respect of the interest acquired (including interest thereon) shall vest in the person by whom the interest is so acquired.

(4)Subsection (4) of section sixty-nine of the War Damage Act, 1943 (which makes special provision with respect to payments under that Act in respect of war damage sustained by hereditaments held for charitable purposes) shall not apply to any -payment which by virtue of this section vests in the person by whom an interest in land is acquired.

54Amendments of 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 57, etc.

(1)The Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, shall apply in relation to the compulsory acquisition of land under this or any other Act by the Central Land Board or any statutory undertakers as it applies in relation to the compulsory acquisition of land by a government department or a local or public authority, and references in this Act to any such department or authority shall be construed accordingly.

(2)The rate of interest for any period after the passing of this Act on compensation which fell or falls, in default of agreement, to be ascertained in accordance with the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (whether as originally enacted or as amended by any subsequent enactment including this Act), in respect of land compulsorily purchased on which entry has been made before the payment of the compensation shall, in lieu of being the rate of five per cent. specified under section eighty-four of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, be such other rate as may from time to time be prescribed by regulations made by the Treasury under this Act.

(3)Any regulations made by the Treasury under section fifty-eight of the Act of 1945 which are in force at the date of the passing of this Act shall continue in force and have effect as if they had been made under this Act and shall accordingly apply to any compensation which falls, in default of agreement, to be ascertained in accordance with the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, as amended by this Act.

PART VPayments out of Central Funds in Respect of Depreciation of Land Values.

Payments for depreciation.

55Payments for depreciation of land values.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, payments shall be made in accordance with a scheme to be made by the Treasury under this section, in respect of interests in land which are depreciated in value by virtue of the provisions of this Act. " ' :

(2)The aggregate amount of the payments to be made by virtue of this section shall be the amount apportioned to land in Scotland by order made by the Treasury under the Town arid Country Planning Act, 1947, out of the sum of three hundred million pounds provided by that Act for making payments-in respect of interests in land in Scotland and in England and' Wales which are depreciated in value by virtue of the provisions of this Act or of that Act.

(3)As soon as may be after they are sufficiently informed as to the development values of interests in land in respect of which claims are made for payments under this Part of this Act, the Treasury shall make a scheme providing for the distribution, as between those interests or such of them as may be prescribed by the scheme, of the sum apportioned as aforesaid to land in Scotland.

(4)Without prejudice to the generality of the last foregoing subsection, any scheme made by the Treasury thereunder may provide for the ascertainment of the amount of the payments to be made under the scheme in respect of particular interests in land either by reference to the development values of those interests respectively or by reference to such other circumstances affecting those interests as may be prescribed by the scheme, or partly in the one way and partly in the other, and may contain such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Treasury to be necessary or expedient, including provision—

(a)for applying, in relation to any payment made in accordance with the scheme, all or any of the provisions of sections twenty-four to twenty-six and twenty-eight to thirty of the War Damage Act, 1943 (which relate to the rights of heritable creditors and certain other persons as to payments for war damage) subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be prescribed by the scheme;

(b)for enabling any such payment falling to be made in respect of the interest of a vassal, or of an owner of land subject to a ground annual, or of a lessee under a lease, or any part of such a payment, to be made, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the scheme, to the superior instead of to the vassal, or to the creditor in the ground annual instead of to the owner, or to the lessor instead of to the lessee, as the case may be, and for any consequential modifications of the liabilities of the vassa1, the owner or the lessee, under the feu charter, the contract of ground annual or the lease, as the case may be;

(c)for the determination of questions arising under the scheme as to the right of any person to receive a payment, or any part of a payment, thereunder.

(5)The power of the Treasury to make a scheme under this section shall include power to amend any such scheme by. a subsequent scheme made thereunder.

(6)A scheme made by the Treasury under this section shall be of no effect unless it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

56Additional payments in respect of certain war-damaged land.

(1)Without prejudice to the provisions of the last foregoing section, the Treasury may make a scheme under this section providing for the making of payments of such amounts, in such cases, and subject to such conditions, as may be prescribed by the scheme, in respect of interests in land which are depreciated in value by virtue of the provisions of this Act, being land in the case of which it is shown—

(a)that the land sustained war damage in such circumstances that the appropriate payment under the War Damage Act, 1943, in respect of a hereditament within the meaning of that Act which consists of or includes the whole or any part of the land is a value payment;

(b)that by reason of the prospects of development other than the making good of the war damage, the value of the hereditament in the state in which it was immediately after the occurrence of the damage is higher, and the amount of the value payment is accordingly lower, than it would be apart from the prospect of such development.

(2)For the purposes of this section, a value payment shall be deemed to be the appropriate payment under the War Damage Act, 1943, in respect of a hereditament—

(a)where such a payment would be appropriate thereunder, but no payment falls to be made because the value of the hereditament in the state in which it was immediately after the occurrence of the war damage is equal to or greater than its value in the state in which it was immediately before the occurrence of the damage; and

(b)where a value payment falls to be made under any provision of the said Act in substitution for a payment of cost of works which, but for that provision, would be the appropriate payment.

(3)Any scheme made under this section may contain such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Treasury to be necessary or expedient, including provision for the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (4) of the last foregoing section.

(4)Any scheme made under this section shall be laid before Parliament immediately after it is made, and if either House within the period of forty days after the scheme is so laid before it, resolves that the scheme be annulled, it shall thereupon cease to have effect, but Without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new scheme.

(5)In reckoning for the purposes of the last foregoing subsection any such period of forty days, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.

57Establishment of claims for payments.

(1)Any claim for a payment under a scheme made under this Part of this Act shall be made to the Central Land Board in such manner, within such period, and accompanied by such particulars and verified by such evidence, as may be prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this section, or as may be required by the Board in accordance with such regulations.

(2)Provision may be made by regulations under this Act for regulating the making of claims for payments under a scheme made under this Part of this Act and for the ascertainment, in the case of interests in land in respect of which claims are so made, of the development values of those interests and of such other particulars as may be required for the purposes of the preparation of a scheme under section fifty-five of this Act or for the purposes of a scheme made under the last foregoing section; and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, such regulations may provide—

(a)for requiring the development values of interests in land to be determined by such authority, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed by the regulations, and for the settlement of any dispute arising in relation to such determinations by an arbiter appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, or by a special tribunal constituted in accordance with the regulations;

(b)for regulating the practice and procedure to be followed in connection with the making of any such determination and the settlement of any such dispute, and the time within which, and the manner in which proceedings may be taken in respect of any alleged irregularity in-connection therewith;

(c)for rendering the right torn payment under this Part of this Act conditional upon compliance with the provisions of the regulations with respect to the making of claims;

(d)for any matters incidental to or consequential on the matters aforesaid.

(3)A claim for a payment under a scheme made under this Part of this Act may be made in respect of any interest in land being the interest of the superior, or of the creditor in a ground annual, or of the person who is the proprietor of the dominium utile or, in the case of land other than feudal land, is the owner of the land, or of the lessee under a lease.

(4)Subject as hereinafter provided, a claim for a payment Under a scheme made under this Part of this Act may be made in respect of such land as the claimant thinks fit, and different claims may be made in respect of the interest of the same person in different parcels of land:

Provided that the Central Land Board may direct that any two or more claims in respect of the interest of the same person in different parcels of land shall be dealt with together and treated as if they were one claim in respect of the interest of that person in the whole of the land included in the claims.

58Ascertainment of development values of land.

(1)For the purposes of this Part of this Act and of any scheme made thereunder, an interest in land shall be deemed to be depreciated in value by virtue of the provisions of this Act if the restricted value of that interest on the appointed day, calculated in accordance with the provisions of this and the next following section, is less than the unrestricted value of that interest on that day as so calculated; and references in this Part of this Act to the development value of an interest in land shall be construed as references to the difference between those values.

(2)Subject to the following provisions of this section—

(a)the restricted value of an interest in land on the appointed day shall be taken to be the value of that interest as it subsists on that day, calculated on the assumption that planning permission would be granted for development of any class specified in the Third Schedule to this Act, but would not be so granted for any other development; and

(b)the unrestricted value of an interest in land on the appointed day shall be taken to be the value which that interest would have had as it subsists on that day if the provisions of this Act (other than this and the next following section) had not passed.

(3)Where land is used on the appointed day for the display of advertisements, no account shall be taken, in calculating the restricted value of any interest therein, of any power to require the discontinuance of that use by virtue of regulations made under the provisions of Part II of this Act with respect to the control of advertisements.

(4)Where any permission to develop land granted on an application made in that behalf under an interim development order has been revoked or modified before the appointed day under section four of the [6 & 7 Geo. 6. c. 43.] Town and Country Planning (Interim Development) (Scotland) Act, 1943, the unrestricted value of any interest in that land shall be calculated without regard to the revocation or modification of that permission:

Provided that—

(a)in calculating the unrestricted value of the interest no account shall be taken of any works in respect of which any compensation has been paid under subsection (2) of section seven of the said Act; and

(b)if any contribution has been paid under subsection (4) of the said section four to the owner of the interest or his predecessor in title, the amount of that contribution shall be deducted from the unrestricted value of the interest.

(5)For the purposes of this section, the restricted and the unrestricted values of interests in land shall be calculated by reference to prices current immediately before the seventh day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and for that purpose any such interest shall be treated as if it had been subsisting immediately before that date with all incidents to which it is subject on the appointed day (being incidents which are relevant to the calculation of the restricted or unrestricted value of that interest, as the case may be), and the land shall be treated as having been immediately before that date in the same state as it is on the appointed day:

Provided that in computing the restricted value of an interest in land, no account shall be taken of the provisions of this Act except in their application to that land.

(6)In computing the unrestricted value of the interest of any person in land which, on the appointed day, was held by him with other land, mere shall be deducted—

(a)an amount equal to the compensation (if any) to which that person would be entitled for the severance of the land from that other land if the first-mentioned land were compulsorily acquired by a government department in pursuance of a notice to treat given on the appointed day; and

(b)in so far as the unrestricted value of the land depends on the prospect of development which would injuriously affect that other land, an amount equal to the compensation (if "any) to which that person would be entitled for such injurious affection if the first-mentioned land were compulsorily acquired as aforesaid for the purpose of that development.

(7)In so far as the unrestricted value of an interest in land depends upon the prospect of any development which, if carried out by the owner of that interest, would necessarily involve a loss to him in the nature of disturbance in respect of the purposes for which the land is being used on the appointed day, the amount of that loss shall be deducted from the unrestricted value of that interest.

59Supplementary provisions as to development values.

(1)Rules (2), (3) and (4) of the Rules set out in section two of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, shall apply in computing the restricted and the unrestricted values of interests in land for the purposes of this Part of this Act as they apply in relation to the compulsory purchase of interests in land.

(2)The restricted and the unrestricted values of an interest in land being the interest of a superior shall be computed on the assumption that the vassal will at all times be able to pay the feu duty and perform his other obligations under the feu charter.

(3)The restricted and the unrestricted values of an interest in land being the interest of a creditor in a ground annual shall be computed on the assumption that the owner of the land subject to the ground annual will at all times be able to pay the ground annual and perform his other obligations under the contract of ground annual.

(4)The restricted and the unrestricted values of an interest in land being the interest of a landlord in land subject to a lease shall be computed on the assumption that the lessee will at all times be able to pay the rent and perform his other obligations under the lease; and the restricted and the unrestricted values of an interest being the interest of a lessee under a lease or of an interest being the interest of a landlord in land subject to a lease shall be computed as aforesaid on the assumption that any option exercisable by either party to determine or to renew the lease will be exercised by that party if it is in his interest so to do and not otherwise.

(5)The restricted and the unrestricted values of an interest ia4and which is subject to a heritable security shall be computed as if the security had been discharged.

(6)It is hereby declared that the restricted or the unrestricted value, or both the restricted and the unrestricted values, of an interest in land may be a minus quantity.

60Exclusion of small claims.

(1)Without prejudice to any provisions which may be included in a scheme made under section fifty-five of this Act for prescribing the cases in which payments are to be made there tinder, no such payment shall be made in respect of an interest in land in respect of which a claim is made unless—

(a)the development value of that interest, when averaged over the area of the land, exceeds the rate of twenty pounds per acre; and

(b)the development value of that interest also exceeds one tenth of its restricted value.

(2)In determining for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the foregoing subsection whether the development value of an interest in land exceeds one tenth of its restricted value, those values shall be calculated—

(a)in the case of an interest of a lessee under a lease, as if the rent payable under the lease were a rent of one penny if asked;

(b)in the case of an interest which is subject to a feu duty or ground annual as if the interest were not subject thereto.

61Vesting and assignation of right to payments under Part V.

(1)Subject to the provisions of any scheme made under this Part of this Act with respect to the disposal of payments made thereunder, the right to receive any such payment in respect of an interest in land shall vest in the person who is on the appointed day the owner of that interest.

(2)The right to receive a payment under any scheme made under this Part of this Act, or a part of such a payment, shall be transmissible by assignation or by operation of law as moveable property:

Provided that regulations made under this Act may direct that any such assignation shall be of no effect for the purposes of any such scheme as aforesaid unless notice thereof has been given to the Central Land Board, in the manner prescribed by the regulations, within such period as 'may be so prescribed.

Satisfaction of Payments.

62Satisfaction of payments under Part V.

(1)All payments falling to be made in accordance with a scheme made under section fifty-five of this Act shall be satisfied by the issue of government stock, that is to say stock the principal of which and the interest on which shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund; and all payments falling to be made in accordance with a scheme made under section fifty-six of this Act shall be made in cash by the Central Land Board.

(2)Any such stock shall be issued on such date as maybe fixed by the Treasury, being a date not later than five years after the appointed day:

Provided that if the amount of any payment required by this section to be satisfied by the issue of stock has not been finally determined on the date so fixed, the stock to be issued in satisfaction of the payment shall be issued on such date, not being later than three months after the amount thereof has been so determined, as the Treasury may direct.

(3)Interest on the amount of any payment falling to be made in accordance with a scheme made under this Part of this Act shall accrue, at such rate as may from time to time be determined by the Treasury, from the appointed day until the payment is satisfied in accordance with the provisions of this section, and shall be paid in cash by the Central Land Board at the time when the payment is so satisfied.

(4)The amount of the stock to be issued in satisfaction of any payment under this Part of this Act shall be such as, in the opinion of the Treasury, is of a value equal on the date of the issue to the amount of the payment, having due regard to the market values of other government securities existing on that date.

(5)The Treasury may by regulations make provision as to the procedure for the issue of stock in satisfaction of payments under this Part of this Act including provision as to evidence of the amount of stock to be issued in any case, and the person to whom it is to be issued, on which the Banks of England and Ireland respectively are to be authorised or required to act.

63General provisions as to stock.

(1)Any stock issued in accordance with the last foregoing section (in this section referred to as " the stock ") shall bear such rate of interest, and shall be subject to such conditions as to repayment, redemption and other matters (including provision for a sinking fund), as the Treasury may determine.

(2)Any expenses incurred in connection with the issue or repayment of the stock shall be charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund.

(3)The Treasury may, for the purpose-of providing any sums required by them in order to redeem the stock, raise money in any manner in which they are authorised to raise money under the [2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 117.] National Loans Act, 1939, and any securities created and issued to raise money under this subsection shall be deemed for all purposes to have been created and issued under that Act.

(4)Interest on the stock shall be paid out of the permanent annual charge for the national debt.

(5)There shall be paid to the Banks of England and Ireland respectively, out of the Consolidated Fund, such sum in respect of the management of the stock in any financial year as may be agreed upon between the Treasury and those banks respectively.

(6)Section forty-seven of the [5 & 6 Geo. 6. c. 21.] Finance Act, 1942 (which empowers the Treasury to make regulations as respects the transfer and registration of stock and registered bonds of the descriptions specified in Part I of the Eleventh Schedule to that Act) and any regulations made under that section which are in force immediately before the passing of this Act, shall have effect as if the stock were included among the stocks mentioned in the said Part I and among the stocks to which the said regulations apply.

(7)The stock shall be subject to the provisions of the [33 & 34 Vict. c. 71.] National Debt Act, 1870, so far as is consistent with the tenor of this Act.

(8)Paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of the Second Schedule to the National Loans Act, 1939 (which applies certain enactments to securities issued under that Act) shall have effect as if references to securities so issued included references to the stock.

64Provision for payments in cash.

(1)The Treasury may issue to the Central Land Board out of the Consolidated Fund such sums as are necessary to enable the Board to make any payments which under this Part of this Act are payable by the Board in cash.

(2)For the purpose of providing sums to be issued under the last foregoing subsection, or of providing for the replacement of sums so issued, the Treasury may at any time, if they think fit, raise money in any manner in which they are authorised to raise money under the National Loans Act, 1939, and any securities created and issued to raise money under this section shall be deemed for all purposes to have been created and issued under that Act. .

65Payments by Central Land Board into Exchequer.

(1)The Central Land Board shall, out of moneys provided by Parliament, pay into the Exchequer in accordance with the following provisions of this section sums equal to the aggregate amount of—

(a)the amount of any payments satisfied by the issue of stock under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act; and

(b)the amount of any sums issued to the Board but of the Consolidated Fund under the last foregoing section in respect of interest on such payments,

together with interest on the said aggregate amount at such rate as the Treasury may direct from the date of the issue.

(2)The sums required by the foregoing subsection to be paid into the Exchequer by the Central Land Board shall be paid by twenty equal instalments of principal and interest, of which the first shall be paid one year after the date fixed by the Treasury for the issue of the stock, and the remainder annually thereafter:

Provided that where any payment made under this Part of this Act is satisfied, in accordance with the proviso to subsection (2) of section sixty-two of this Act, by the issue of stock at any time after the date fixed as aforesaid, the sums required to be paid into the Exchequer under this section in respect of that payment, and in respect of sums issued to the Board under the last foregoing section in respect of interest thereon, shall be so paid by such number of equal annual instalments of principal and interest as will complete the instalments on the same date as the instalments in respect-of payments which are satisfied on the date fixed as aforesaid.

(3)Any sums paid into the Exchequer under the foregoing provisions of this section shall be issued out of the Consolidated Fund at such times as the Treasury may direct, and shall be applied by the Treasury as follows, that is to say—

(a)so much thereof as represents principal shall be applied in redeeming or paying off debt of such description as the Treasury think fit;

(b)so much thereof as represents interest shall be applied to the payment of interest which would, apart from this provision, have fallen to be paid out of the permanent annual charge for the national debt.

PART VIDevelopment Charges.

66Levy of development charge in respect of certain development.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, there shall be paid to the Central Land Board in respect of the carrying out of any operations to which this Part of this Act applies, and in respect of any use of land to which this Part of this Act applies, a, development charge of such amount, if any, as the Board may determine, and accordingly no such operations shall be carried out, and no such use shall be instituted or continued, except with the consent in writing of the Central Land Board, until the amount of the charge, if any, to be paid in respect of those operations or that use has been determined by the Board, and the Board have certified that the amount so determined has been paid or secured to the satisfaction of the Board in accordance with the following provisions of this Part of this Act.

(2)This Part of this Act applies to all operations for the carrying out of which planning permission is required, and to all uses of land for the institution or continuance of which such permission is required:

Provided that—

(a)this Part of this Act does not (except as hereinafter provided) apply to operations of any description specified in the Third Schedule to this Act or to any use of land so specified;

(b)regulations made under this Act with the consent of the Treasury may provide for exempting from the provisions of this Part .of this Act operations or uses of any description specified in the regulations.

(3)Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (a) of the proviso to the last foregoing subsection, where planning permission is granted for the carrying out of operations of any class specified in the Third Schedule to this Act, or for the institution of any use so specified, then if—

(a)compensation has been paid under section eighteen of this Act in consequence of a previous refusal of permission for those operations or that use or of the grant of such permission subject to conditions, or in consequence of the revocation or modification of permission so granted; or

(b)compensation has been paid under section twenty-five of this Act in consequence of an order requiring the removal of any building or the discontinuance of any use of land, and the planning permission authorises the rebuilding of that building or the resumption of that use;

this Part of this Act shall apply to those operations, or to that use, as the case may be, and where the amount of the development charge to be paid in respect of those operations or that use has been determined by the Central Land Board in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act, the Board may pay to any local planning authority by whom any such compensation as aforesaid has been paid a contribution towards that compensation not exceeding the said amount.

(4)Where, by virtue of any provision of this Act, planning permission is granted in respect of the retention on land of any buildings or works erected or carried out in accordance with planning permission granted for a limited period only, this Part of this Act shall apply to the retention of buildings or works as it applies to operations for which planning permission is required and references in this Part of this Act to the carrying out of such operations shall be construed accordingly.

(5)Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the proviso to subsection (2) of this section shall be of no effect unless they are approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

(6)Any sums required by the Central Land Board for the making of contributions under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

67Determination of development charge by Central Land Board.

(1)Subject as hereinafter provided, the Central Land Board shall, as soon as may be after an application has been made to them in the manner prescribed by regulations under this Act by a person having an interest in land sufficient to enable him to carry out any such operations as aforesaid or to make any such use" as aforesaid, or by a person who satisfies them that he is able to obtain such an interest, determine whether any and if so what development charge is to be paid in respect of those operations or that use:

Provided that—

(a)where planning permission has not been granted for the carrying out of the said operations or for the institution or continuance of the said use, the Board may postpone the determination of the development, charge to be paid in respect thereof until such permission has been granted;

(b)where the application relates to the carrying out of any operations, the Board may refuse to determine the development charge payable in respect thereof unless they are satisfied, after consultation with the local planning authority, that the applicant is able to carry out those operations, and that he will do so within such period as the Board consider appropriate;

(c)where the application relates to the institution of any use of land, the Board may refuse to determine the amount of the charge in respect thereof unless they .are satisfied, after consultation with the local planning authority, that the use will be instituted within such period as the Board consider appropriate.

(2)In determining whether any and if so what development charge is to be paid in respect of any operations or any use of land, the Board—

(a)'' shall have regard to the amount by which the value of the land with the benefit of planning permission for those operations or that use (calculated without regard to any charge payable in respect thereof under this Part of this Act and on the assumption that the operation or use can lawfully be carried out or made apart from the provisions of this Act) exceeds the value which it would have without the benefit of such permission; and

(b)shall not give undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to one applicant over another.

(3)Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, regulations made under this Act with the consent of the Treasury may prescribe general principles to be followed by the Central Land Board in determining under this Part of this Act whether any and if so what development charge is to be paid thereunder in respect of any operations or use of land; and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, such regulations may in particular provide for securing at the amount of the said charge shall be determined on different principles in relation to operations or uses of different classes, or in relation to operations or uses carried out or begun at different periods.

(4)Where planning permission for any operations, or for any use of land, is granted under subsection (6) of section twenty-four of this Act, or directions are given under paragraph (b) of the proviso to subsection (2) of section seventeen of this Act requiring such permission to be granted on application made in that behalf, the Board may determine the amount of the development charge (if any) which would be payable in respect of those operations or that use, notwithstanding that no such application as is mentioned in this section has been made to them in that behalf.

(5)Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (3) of this section shall be of no effect unless they are approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

68Payment and security for payment of development charges.

(1)The amount of the development charge payable in respect of the carrying out of any operations or in respect of any use of land may be determined either as a single capital payment or as a series of instalments of capital, or of capital and interest combined, or as a series of other annual or periodical payments, of such amounts, and payable at such times, as the Central Land Board may determine after taking into account any representations made by the applicant.

(2)Except where the development charge is determined as aforesaid as a single capital payment which is then discharged, the Central Land Board may require the applicant to enter into such agreement as they may direct for the payment of any sums payable by virtue of the determination (whether with or without interest in default of due payment), or to give such security as they, may direct for the payment of any such sums as aforesaid, or may require the applicant both to enter into such agreement and to give such security:

Provided that, notwithstanding anything in this section or in any requirement of the Board thereunder, any person for the time being interested in the land may at any time discharge any outstanding liability for sums payable by virtue of the determination by the payment of such amount as may be determined by the Board to represent the value of those sums subject to such discount as they consider appropriate.

(3)Where the amount of a development charge as determined by the Board has been discharged or any such requirement as aforesaid has been complied with, or where the Board determine that no such charge is to be paid, the Board shall if so required by the applicant, issue their certificate to that effect.

(4)Any sums received by the Central Land Board in respect of the payment of a development charge shall be paid" into the Exchequer.

69Scope and effect of determinations of Central Land Board.

(1)Subject as hereinafter provided, a determination of the Central Land Board under this Part of this Act in respect of any operations or use of land shall have effect in relation to the carrying out of those operations, or, as the case may be, in relation to that use of the land, by any person for the time being interested therein, and the question whether any and if so what development charge is to be paid in respect of any such operations or use shall be determined accordingly:

Provided that the Board may, if they think fit, direct that any such determination as aforesaid shall cease to have effect if, before the operations to which the determination relates are carried out or completed, or, as the case may be, before the use to which it relates is instituted, any interest in the land is transferred or created (otherwise than by operation of law), unless the determination is confirmed by the Board with or without modifications, on a subsequent application made to them in that behalf.

(2)Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing subsection, the amount of the development charge payable in respect of the use of land for any purpose may be determined in respect of the use of the land for that purpose during such period as may be specified in the determination:

Provided that—

(a)where planning permission for the institution or continuance of the use of land for any purpose has been granted for a limited period only, the amount of the said charge shall not be determined in respect, of the use of the land for that purpose for any longer period; and

(b)where application is made to the Central Land Board to determine the amount of the said charge in respect of the use of the land for any purpose for any period specified in the application, the said amount shall not be so determined in respect of the use of the land for that purpose for any period longer than the period so specified.

(3)Where a determination of the Central Land Board is made, under the last foregoing subsection, in respect of the use of land for any purpose for a period specified in the determination, the provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply in relation to the use of the land for that purpose by any person after the expiration of that period as if the determination had not been made.

70Variation of determinations and repayment of development charges in certain cases.

(1)The Central Land Board may at any time, on application made to them in that behalf in accordance with regulations under this Act by the person entitled to an interest in land to which a determination under this Part of this Act relates,' vary their determination in such manner as appears to them to be appropriate having regard to any change of circumstances since the determination was made, including the development, after the determination, of adjacent land in accordance with planning permission granted otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of the development plan, and may amend, discharge, modify or release any agreements or securities made or given in respect of the determination, or repay any sums previously paid thereunder, so far as may be required in order to give effect to the variation:

Provided that, except in a case where application is made to them to confirm a previous determination on the transfer or creation of any interest in land, the Board shall not have power to vary any determination under this Part of this Act so as to increase the amount of the development charge payable thereunder.

(2)Where, after the amount of the development charge has been determined under this Part of this Act in respect of any operations or in respect of any use of land, and before the amount so determined has been fully discharged—

(a)planning permission for the carrying out of those operations or for the institution or continuance of that use is revoked by an order made under section nineteen of this Act; or

(b)an. order is made under section twenty-four of this Act requiring the removal of any buildings or works erected or constructed in carrying out those operations, or requiring the discontinuance of that use; or

(c)the whole of the land to which the determination relates is compulsorily acquired under this or any other Act,

the determination, and any agreements or charges made, of given in respect thereof, shall thereupon cease to have effect but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder, and the Board shall on application being made to them discharge or release any agreements or securities given in respect thereof.

(3)Where, after the amount of the development charge has been determined as aforesaid, and before the amount so determined has been fully discharged,—

(a)planning permission for the carrying out of the operations, or for the institution or continuance of the use, to which the determination relates, is modified by an order made under the said section nineteen; or

(b)an order is made under the said section twenty-four requiring the alteration of any buildings or works erected or constructed in the carrying out of those operations, or imposing conditions on the continuance of that use; or

(c)any part of the land to which the determination relates is compulsorily acquired under this or any other Act,

the Board shall, on application made to them in accordance with regulations under this Act, vary the determination and amend, discharge, modify or release any agreements or securities made or given in respect thereof, so far as may be just in consequence of the modification, order or purchase, as the case may be.

(4)Where compensation is payable under Part II of this Act in consequence of any such order as mentioned in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section, then, in calculating for the purposes of the compensation any depreciation in the value of the land to which the order relates, or any other loss or damage sustained by a person interested in that land, regard shall be had to the foregoing provisions of this section and to anything done by the Board thereunder.

(5)Where compensation is payable under the said Part II in consequence of any such order as aforesaid, or where land is compulsorily acquired as mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section, then, if any sums have been paid to the Central Land Board by way of development charge in accordance with the determination referred to in those subsections, the Board shall pay to the authority or person by whom compensation is payable in consequence of the order or, as the case may be, in respect of the compulsory acquisition, a contribution towards that compensation representing such proportion of the sums so paid by way of development charge as may be agreed between the Board and that authority or person, or, failing agreement, as may be determined by the Secretary of State, to be appropriate in all the circumstances of the case.

(6)Subsection (3) of section twenty of this Act shall apply for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that section, and shall accordingly have effect as if the reference therein to the foregoing provisions of that section included a reference to the foregoing provisions of this section; and any reference in this section to the compulsory acquisition of land shall be construed as including a reference to the acquisition of land by agreement by any authority or person who has power or can be authorised to acquire it compulsorily.

(7)Any sums required by the Central Land Board for the payment of sums under this section, or for the making of contributions thereunder, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(8)Where in consequence of the revocation or modification of planning permission or of the making of an order under section twenty-four of this Act a determination of the Central Land Board ceases to have effect or is varied, and the Board amend, discharge, modify or release any agreement or security -made or given in respect thereof, the local planning authority shall pay to the owner of the interest which is the subject of the agreement or security compensation of such amount as may be determined by agreement between the authority and the owner or, in default of agreement, by the Auditor of the Court of Session, to represent the amount of any legal expenses incurred by the owner or any of his predecessors in title which have been rendered abortive or which have become necessary in consequence of the revocation or modification of the permission or the making of the order.

In this subsection the expression " legal expenses " means any legal expenses (including stamp duties, search fees and recording dues) reasonably and necessarily incurred in connection with an agreement or security required by the Board to be made or given in respect of the determination or in connection with the amendment, discharge, modification or release of any such agreement or security.

71Powers of Central Land Board as to development carried out in contravention of Part VI.

(1)If any operations to which this Part of this Act applies are carried out, or any use of land to which this Part of this Act applies is instituted or continued, in contravention of the foregoing' provisions of this Part of this Act, the Central Land Board may, without any application being made to them in that behalf, by order determine whether any and if so what development charge is to be paid in respect of those operations or in respect of that use:

Provided that, subject to the following provisions of this section, the amount of the development charge so determined shall not exceed the amount which, in the opinion of the Board, would have been so determined if application had been duly made to them in that behalf under this Part of this Act.

(2)Any order made under this section may require the payment to the Board, by such person as may be specified in the order (being the person by whom the operations were carried out or by whom the use was instituted or continued, as the case may be) of such sums in respect of the charge and interest thereon as may be so specified; and if they think fit so to do, the Board may, in the manner specified in subsection (6) of this section, create a charge on the land, or, where the land is held under a lease recorded under the [20 & 21 Vict. c. 26.] Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act, 1857, create a charge on the lease, for the payment of any sums payable under this section by the owner of the land or the tenant under the lease, as the case may be, or by any predecessor in title of the owner or tenant.

(3)A copy of any order made under this section shall be served by the Central Land Board on the person required by the order to make any payment to the Board and on the owner and the tenant of the land.

(4)Subject as hereinafter provided, the Central Land Board may, if it appears to them to be just so to do, include in the amount of the development charge determined by an order under this section such additional sum by way of penalty as they consider appropriate, not exceeding twice the amount of the development charge determined as aforesaid, and the provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall apply in relation to any such penalty as they apply in relation to the amount determined as aforesaid;

Provided that any person who is aggrieved by the inclusion of any such penalty in an order under this section may, within twenty-eight days from the date on which a copy of the order is served on him, appeal to the appropriate court, and that court may, if they think fit, modify the order by omitting the penalty or by reducing the amount thereof to such extent as they think just; and the decision of that court shall be final.

(5)The provisions of this section shall apply in relation to any such operations or uses of land as are mentioned in subsection (1) of this section whether or not planning permission was granted in respect thereof; but where proceedings are taken under section twenty-one of this Act for the enforcement of planning control in relation to any such operations or use, regard shall be had to those proceedings in determining the amount of the development charge under this section.

(6)For the purpose of creating a charge under this section for the payment of any sums payable thereunder, the Board may make in favour of themselves a charging order charging and burdening the land or the lease, as the case may be, with an annuity to repay the sums so payable together with the expenses of making the charging order and recording it in the appropriate Register of Sasines; and the provisions of subsection (2) and subsections (4) to (10) of section fifty-five of the Water (Scotland) Act, 1946, shall, with the following and any other necessary modifications, apply to any such charging order:—

(a)for references to the local authority there shall be substituted references to the Board; and

(b)for references to Part III of the said Act of 1946 there shall be substituted references to Part VI of this Act.

(7)For the purposes of subsection (4) of this section the expression " the appropriate court " means, in relation to a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, the sheriff having jurisdiction in the place in which the land or any part thereof is situated, and, in relation to a penalty exceeding five hundred pounds, the sheriff having jurisdiction as aforesaid or the Court of Session.

PART VIIApplication to special Cases.

72Existing development contravening previous planning control.

(1)Where any works on land existing at the appointed day were carried out, or any use to which land is put on that day was begun, in contravention of previous planning control, then, subject to the provisions of this section, the provisions of Part II of this Act with respect to enforcement notices shall apply in relation thereto as they apply in relation to development carried out after the appointed day without the grant of planning permission in that behalf:

Provided that an enforcement notice shall not be served by virtue of the provisions of this section in respect of any works or use (not being works or a use carried out or begun during the war period as defined by the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 35.] Building Restriction (War-Time Contraventions) Act, 1946) at any time after three years from the appointed day.

(2)Where any such works as aforesaid were carried out, or any such use as aforesaid was begun, during the war period as defined by the Building Restrictions (War-Time Contraventions) Act, 1946, then—

(a)if, by virtue of the provisions of that Act or of any determination effected thereunder (whether before or after the appointed day), the works or use are deemed to comply- with planning control within the meaning of that Act, the provisions of this section shall not apply, or, as the case may be, shall cease to apply to those works or that use; and

(b)if it has been determined under that Act (whether before or after the appointed day) that the works or use shall not be deemed to comply with planning control within the meaning of that Act, subsection (3) of section twenty-one of this Act shall have effect;, in relation to any enforcement notice served in respect of the works or use by virtue of the provisions of this section, as if the proviso to that subsection were omitted.

(3)Where, by virtue of this section, an enforcement notice is served in respect of any works being government war works within the meaning of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1945, then, subject as hereinafter provided—

(a)if the steps required by the notice are taken by the owner, the lessee or the occupier of the land, any expenses reasonably incurred in that behalf shall be recoverable from the authority by whom the notice was served;

(b)if the steps required by the notice are taken by the said authority, that authority shall not be entitled, under section twenty-two of this Act, to recover the expenses incurred by them in that behalf:

Provided that where, under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section two of the [2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 75.] Compensation (Defence) Act, 1939, compensation has been paid equal to the full cost (as estimated for the purposes of that compensation) of taking the steps required by the enforcement notice, the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply; and where compensation has been paid under the said paragraph (b) (otherwise than as aforesaid), or under subsection (4) of section three of the said Act, in respect of the land, the amount which, by virtue of this subsection, is recoverable from the authority by whom the enforcement notice was served or, as the case may be, is not recoverable by that authority, shall be reduced so far as may be just having regard to the compensation so paid.

(4)The power of the local planning authority to grant planning permission for the retention on land of buildings or works constructed or carried out before the date of application, or tor the continuance of any use of land instituted before that date, shall include power to grant such permission in respect of any buildings or other works or use of land in respect of which that authority are empowered to serve an enforcement notice by virtue of the provisions of this section; and where permission is so granted, the foregoing provisions of this section shall cease to apply to the works or use to which the permission relates, but without prejudice to the application thereto of any provisions of Part II of this Act with respect to the contravention of conditions subject to which planning permission has been granted.

(5)In relation to an enforcement notice served by virtue of this section, subsection (4) of section twenty-one of this Act shall have effect as if for paragraph (a) thereof there were substituted the following paragraph:—

“(a)if satisfied that the works or use to which the notice relates are not works or a use to which section seventy-two of this Act applies, shall quash the notice to which the appeal relates”.

(6)Where an enforcement notice served by virtue of this section in relation to any land takes effect—

(a)the value of any interest therein for the purposes of the assessment of the compensation payable under Part IV of this Act on the compulsory acquisition thereof; and

(b)the development value of any interest therein for the purposes of Part V of this Act shall be calculated having regard to the requirements of the notice, and the assumptions required to be made for those purposes shall be modified accordingly.

(7)Where planning permission is granted for the continuance of any such use as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, then, notwithstanding anything in subsection. (2) of section sixty-six of this Act, no development charge shall be payable in respect of the continued use of the land in accordance with permission so granted.

(8)Provision may be made by regulations under this Act for applying the foregoing provisions of this section, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the regulations, to works on land carried out, or uses of land begun, at any time before the appointed day, in contravention of any restriction in force under any enactment repealed by this Act (other than the enactments relating to town and country planning); and any such regulations may make such consequential provisions as the Secretary of State considers expedient, including provision for amending the Building Restrictions (War-Time Contraventions) Act, 1946 in its application to any such restriction as aforesaid:

Provided that where provision is made by such regulation for amending the said Act of 1946, the regulations shall be of no effect unless they are approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

(9)For the purposes of this section works on land shall be deemed to have been carried out, and uses of land to have been begun, in contravention of previous planning control—

(a)where at the material time the land was subject to a resolution to prepare a planning scheme, if they were carried out or begun otherwise than in accordance with permission granted in that behalf by or under the interim development order;

(b)where at the material time the land was subject to a planning scheme, if they were carried out or begun otherwise than in conformity with the provisions of the scheme or of permission granted thereunder;

and where permission for any works or use was granted as aforesaid subject to conditions (in whatever form) restricting the period during which the works or use could be continued on the land, and that period has expired before the appointed day, the provisions of this section shall apply as if the works or use had been carried out or begun in contravention of previous planning control.

73Existing development authorised subject to conditions.

(1)Where any works on land existing at the appointed day or any use to which land is put on that day, has been authorised by a permission granted subject to conditions under a planning scheme or under an interim development order, the provisions of Part II of this Act shall apply in relation to those works or that use as if the conditions had been imposed on the grant of planning permission.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsection, where any such permission as aforesaid was granted subject to conditions (in whatever form) restricting the period for which the works or use may be continued on the, land, then, if that period has not expired at the appointed day and the works are not removed, or the use discontinued, at the expiration of that period, the provisions of Part II of this Act with respect to enforcement notices shall apply )n relation thereto as if the works had been carried out, or the use begun, as the case may be, at the expiration of that period and without the grant of planning permission in that behalf.

(3)The power of a local planning authority to grant planning permission for the retention on land of buildings or works constructed or carried out before the date of the application, or the continuance of any use of land instituted before that date, shall include power to grant such permission in respect of any works of use authorised by a permission granted subject to any such conditions as are mentioned in the last foregoing subsection; and where permission is so granted—

(a)the last foregoing subsection shall cease to apply to the works or use to which the permission relates, but without prejudice to the application thereto of any provisions of the said Part II with respect to the contravention of conditions subject to which planning permission has been granted;

(b)in a case where the permission authorises the retention of any works, subsection (4) of section sixty-six of this Act shall apply in relation to the retention of those works as if they had been erected or carried out in accordance with planning permission granted for a limited period only.

(4)The value of any interest in land to which any such permission as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section relates for the purposes of the assessment of compensation payable under Part IV of this Act on the compulsory acquisition thereof and the development value of any such interest for the purposes of Part V of this Act shall be calculated having regard to the conditions subject to which the permission was granted and to the provisions of this section, and the assumptions required to be made for those purposes shall be modified accordingly.

(5)Where at any time before the appointed day it has been determined under the Building Restrictions (War-Time Contraventions) Act, 1946, that any works on land or any use of land shall be deemed to comply with planning control within the meaning of that Act subject to any conditions specified in the determination, the provisions of this section shall apply in relation to those works or that use, and in relation to any interest in the land in question, as if the said conditions had been imposed on the grant of permission under a planning scheme or under an interim development order; and, notwithstanding any breach of those conditions, the provisions of the last foregoing section shall not apply thereto.

(6)Provision may be made by regulations under this Act for applying the foregoing provisions of this section, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the regulations, to works on land carried out, or uses of land begun, at any time before the appointed day, in accordance with permission granted subject to conditions under any enactment repealed by this Act (other than the enactments relating to town and country planning); and for the purposes of this provision any works or use in respect of which a notice has been served under subsection (1) of section one of the [6 & 7 Geo. 6. c. 34.] Restriction of Ribbon Development (Temporary Development) Act, 1943, or is deemed by virtue of subsection (4) of that section to have been so served, shall be treated as carried out or begun in accordance with permission granted subject to a condition restricting the period for which the works or use may be continued on the land.

74General provisions as to development authorised under interim development orders on or after nth November, 1943.

(1)Where permission for any development of land has been granted, at any time on or after the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred and forty-three, and before the appointed day, on an application in that behalf made under an interim development order, then if and so far as that development has not been carried out before the appointed day and the permission granted as aforesaid is in force immediately before that day, planning permission shall be deemed by virtue of this section to be granted, in respect thereof subject to the like conditions (if any) as were imposed by the permission under the interim development order as in force as aforesaid:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply in relation to any development for which permission was required before the appointed day under the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935, unless that permission has also been granted.

(2)Subject to the provisions of the next following section in any case to which those provisions apply, no account shall be taken of the provisions of this section in calculating for the purposes of Part V of this Act the development value of any interest in land for the development of which permission is deemed to be granted by virtue of this section; and nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the operation of Part VI of this Act in relation to any development in respect of which permission is deemed to be so granted.

(3)The provisions of section nineteen of this Act shall apply in relation to planning permission which is deemed to be granted by virtue of this section as if it had been granted on an application made in that behalf under Part II of this Act, and in relation to any order made under that section for the revocation or modification of any such permission any reference in subsection (2) of section twenty of this Act to the grant of permission shall be construed as a reference to the grant of the permission under the interim development order.

(4)Where permission for any development of land has been granted as mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, and permission for that development has also been granted under the Restriction of Ribbon, Development Act, 1935, then, if the permission so granted under the said Act of 1935 was granted subject to conditions, those conditions shall be treated for the purposes of this section as conditions imposed by the permission granted under the interim development order.

75Unfinished buildings.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, where any works for the erection or alteration of a building have been begun but not completed before the appointed day, then, if immediately before that day those works could have been completed in conformity with the provisions of a planning scheme or of permission granted thereunder or in accordance with permission granted by or under an interim development order, and if any permission required under the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935, for the carrying out of those works was granted, planning permission shall, by virtue of this section, be deemed to be granted in respect of the completion of those works.

(2)The permission deemed to be granted by virtue of this section shall be deemed to be so granted subject to any conditions applicable thereto, by or under the scheme or the permission granted by or under the interim development order, as the case may be, and to any conditions imposed by the permission granted under the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935, and shall include permission to use the building when erected or altered—

(a)where the purpose for which it could be so used was prescribed by or under the planning scheme or by the permission granted by or under the interim development order, as the case may be, for that purpose;

(b)in any other case, for the purpose for which the building, or the building as altered, is designed.

(3)The development value of land for the development of which permission is deemed to be granted by virtue of this section shall be calculated for the purposes of Part V of this Act as if that development had been completed immediately before the appointed day, and no development charge shall be payable in connection with that development.

(4)In relation to any such works as are mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, being works in respect of which permission was granted on or after the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred and forty-three, on an application in that behalf made under an interim development order, the provisions of this section shall have effect in substitution for the provisions of the last foregoing section.

76Compensation for abortive expenditure on refusal of planning permission for other development authorised before appointed day.

(1)Where an application is made within six months after the appointed day for planning permission to complete or carry out any buildings or works begun or contracted for before that day, and that permission is refused by the Secretary of State, either on appeal or on the reference of the application to him for determination, or is so granted by him subject to conditions, then if, on a claim made to the local planning, authority within the time and in the manner prescribed by regulations under this Act it is shown—

(a)that the buildings or works in question were begun or contracted for in conformity with the provisions of a planning scheme, or of permission granted thereunder, or in accordance with permission granted, at any time before the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred and forty-three, by or under an interim development order; or

(b)that the buildings or works in question were begun or contracted for at a time when no resolution to prepare or adopt such a scheme had taken effect; and

(c)that the applicant has incurred expenditure in carrying out work which is rendered abortive by the refusal or conditions, or has entered into a contract for any work which is abandoned in consequence thereof,

that authority shall pay to the applicant compensation equal to the expenditure so incurred or, as the case may be, to any sum reasonably paid by him in the discharge of any liability arising- under the contract in respect of the abandonment of the work.

(2)For the purposes of the last foregoing subsection, any expenditure incurred in the preparation of plans for the purposes of any work or upon any similar matters preparatory thereto shall be deemed to be included in the expenditure incurred in carrying out that work, but except as aforesaid no compensation shall be paid under the said subsection in respect of anything done for the purposes of any such buildings or works as are mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section if it was done before the following date, that is to say—

(a)where the building or work was authorised by permission granted under a planning scheme or by or under an interim development order, the date on which permission was so granted;

(b)where the building or work was otherwise begun or contracted for in conformity with a planning scheme, the date on which that scheme came into force.

(3)Any compensation payable under this section in respect of an interest in land shall be payable in addition to any compensation payable under Part II of this Act in respect of that interest in consequence of the refusal of the permission or the grant thereof subject to conditions:

Provided that no account shall be taken, in assessing the compensation payable as aforesaid under the said Part II (whether in respect of the compulsory acquisition of the said interest or otherwise), of the value of any works in respect of which compensation is payable under this section.

77Land ripe for development before the appointed day.

(1)Where planning permission is granted in respect of any development consisting of the erection, extension or alteration of buildings, or is deemed by virtue of section seventy-four of this Act to be so granted, then if the Secretary of State is satisfied, on application made to him within one year after the appointed day or within such extended period as the Secretary of "State may in any particular case allow—

(a)that the development values of interests in the land, as required to be ascertained in accordance with the provisions of Part V of this Act and without regard to the provisions of this section would be wholly or mainly attributable to the prospects of that development at the appointed day, and

(b)that a building contract made in relation to that development within the period of ten years before the seventh day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, was in force on the appointed day, or that an application for permission to build had been made in respect thereof within that period,

he shall certify accordingly:

Provided that if it appears to the Secretary of State that proceedings should be taken with a view to the revocation of the permission granted or deemed to be granted as aforesaid, he may postpone the issue of a certificate pending the taking of such proceedings, and if the permission is revoked he shall not be required to issue the certificate.

(2)Where a certificate is issued under this section, then—

(a)in calculating for the purpose of Part V of this Act the development value of any interest in the land to which the certificate relates, no account shall be taken of any value attributable to the prospects of the development specified in the certificate; and

(b)no development charge shall be payable under Part VI of this Act in respect of that development if carried out within such period, if any, as may be prescribed by the certificate.

(3)For the purposes of this section—

(a)the expression " building contract ", in relation to any development, means a contract made between a person for the time being interested in the land and any other person, under which that other person undertakes to carry out the whole or substantially the whole of the building operations to be carried out in the course of that development; and

(b)the expression " application for permission to build ", in relation to any development, means the submission by a person for the time being interested in the land of plans of the buildings proposed to be erected, extended or altered in the course of the development to the proper local or other authority, in order to comply with the requirements of any enactment, byelaws, rules, regulations or other provisions under whatever authority made requiring plans to be so submitted or the consent of such authority to be obtained for the erection, extension or alteration of buildings.

78Mineral workings.

(1)In relation to development consisting of the winning and working of minerals, the provisions of this Act shall have effect subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be prescribed by regulations made under this Act with the consent of the Treasury.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, any such regulations as aforesaid may provide for securing—

(a)that in the case of such land as may be prescribed by or under the regulations, no development charge shall be payable in respect of the winning and working of any minerals in the land during a period of three years after the appointed day;

(b)that the restricted and the unrestricted values of any interest in such land as is mentioned in the foregoing paragraph shall be calculated for the purposes of Part V of this Act as if any operations carried out for the winning and working of minerals during the said period of three years had been carried out before the appointed day;

(c)that the amount of any development charge payable in respect of the winning and working of minerals in accordance with planning permission granted or deemed to have been granted shall be calculated by reference to the amount of minerals got from time to time in accordance with such permission.

(3)Regulations made for the purpose of this section shall provide for securing—

(a)that where a development charge is payable in respect of the winning and working of minerals comprised in a mining lease which was in force on the appointed day, the terms of the lease may be varied, by such tribunal as may be prescribed by the regulations, so far as may be just having regard to the amount of the charge;

(b)that where a development charge is payable in respect of the winning and working of minerals authorised by an Order made under Part I of the [13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 20.] Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act, 1923, the provisions of the Order may be varied by the Railway and Canal Commission so far as may be just having regard to the amount of the charge.

(4)Where a development plan provides that any land is to be used for the purpose of securing the winning and working of any minerals comprised therein, then, without prejudice to the powers conferred by Part III of this Act in relation to land designated by such a plan as subject to compulsory acquisition, the provisions of the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act, 1923, shall have effect in relation to the land subject to such modifications as may be prescribed by regulations made under this Act by the Secretary of State and the Minister of Fuel and Power, and such regulations may in particular provide for securing—

(a)that a right to work any minerals in the land may be granted by the Railway and Canal Commission under the said Act to any person who is desirous of working them, either by himself or through his lessees, and who is unable to obtain the necessary rights by agreement on reasonable terms;

(b)that for the purposes of the determination by the Commission of an application for any such right, it shall be assumed that the winning and working of the minerals is expedient in the national interest; and

(c)that the compensation or consideration in respect of any such right which is granted by the Commission shall be assessed having regard to the amount of the compensation which would be payable in respect of a compulsory acquisition of the minerals under Part III of this Act.

(5)Regulations made for the purposes of this section shall be of no effect unless they are approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

(6)The provisions of this section and of any regulations made thereunder shall not apply to the winning and working of any such minerals as are mentioned in paragraph 3 or paragraph 4 of Part II of the Third Schedule to this Act, or to the winning and working of any minerals vested in the National Coal Board, and nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the prerogative right of His Majesty to any gold or silver mine.

79Land held by local authorities for general statutory purposes.

(1)This section applies to land for the time being held by a local authority for the purposes of any of their functions as such, not being—

(a)land to which the next following section applies;

(b)land held by the local authority for the purpose of any statutory undertaking carried on by them; or

(c)land of any class excepted from the provisions of this section by regulations made under this Act.

(2)No payment shall be made under Part V of this Act to a local authority in respect of any interest in land which, on the appointed day, is land to which this section applies.

(3)In the case of land which, on the appointed day, was land to which this section applies, no development charge shall be payable in respect of any operations carried out on the land, or in respect of any use of the land, while the land remains land to which this section applies.

(4)If by reason of an appropriation, sale, feu or lease, any land which on the appointed day was land to which this section applies ceases to be such land, no development charge shall be payable in respect of any development of the land for which planning permission had been granted at the time of the appropriation, sale, feu or lease.

(5)Where any land to which this section applies is compulsorily acquired under this or any other Act, in pursuance of a notice to treat served on or after the appointed day, then, in assessing the compensation payable in respect of the acquisition, it shall be assumed—

(a)that planning permission would be granted for any development by virtue of which the use of the land would be made to correspond with the use which prevails generally in the case of contiguous or adjacent land; and

(b)that no development charge would be payable in respect of any such development.

80Land acquired by local planning authorities and development corporations for comprehensive development or re-development.

(1)No payment shall be made under Part V of this Act in respect of any interest in land, being—

(a)the interest of a local planning authority in land acquired or appropriated by that authority under Part I of the Act of 1945 for the purposes of the development or redevelopment of any area as a whole; or

(b)the interest of a development corporation in land acquired by the corporation under the New Towns Act, 1946,

and where a local planning authority or a development corporation have before the appointed day disposed of an interest in any such land, no payment shall, be made under the said Part V in respect of that interest.

(2)No development charge shall be payable in respect of the following operations or uses of land, that is to say:—

(a)any operations carried out by a local authority, being a local planning authority, on any such land as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of the foregoing subsection or on any land acquired or appropriated by that authority under Part III of this Act for the purposes of the development or redevelopment of any area as a whole, or any use by that authority of any such land as aforesaid;

(b)any operations carried out by a development corporation on land acquired by the corporation under the New Towns Act, 1946, whether before or after the appointed day, or any use by a development corporation of any such land;

and where any such land as aforesaid has been disposed of by the local planning authority or development corporation, whether before or after the appointed day, no development charge shall be payable as aforesaid in respect of the carrying out of any operations on the land or the institution of any use of the land, .for which planning permission had been granted at the time of the disposal, or, in the case of land disposed of before the appointed day, in respect of the carrying out of any operations on the land or the institution of any use of the land carried out or instituted in accordance with the terms of the deed by which the land was disposed of.

(3)In respect of any such operations or uses of land as are mentioned in the last foregoing subsection, the local planning authority or development corporation shall from time to time pay to the Central Land Board such sums, if any, in lieu of development charges, as the Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine:

Provided that the Secretary of State may, with the like consent, direct the Board to repay from time to time the whole or any part of any sums so paid.

(4)Any sums received by the Central Land Board under the last foregoing subsection shall be paid into the Exchequer, and any sums required by the Central Land Board for the repayment of sums so received shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

81Operational land of statutory undertakers.

(1)No payment shall be made under Part V of this Act in respect of the interest of any statutory undertakers in land which, on the appointed day, is operational land.

(2)In the case of land which, on the appointed day, was operational land, no development charge shall be payable in respect of any operations carried out on the land by the statutory undertakers, or in respect of any use of the land by them, while the land remains operational land.

(3)Where any land which, on the appointed day, was operational land ceases at any time thereafter to be operational land, no development charge shall be payable in respect of—

(a)the use of that land for the purpose which prevails generally in the case of contiguous or adjacent land,

(b)the carrying out of any operations necessary for the purpose of making that use of that land,

if the use is instituted, or the operations carried out, as the case may be, within such period after the cessation as may be prescribed by regulations under this Act.

(4)Where any operational land of statutory undertakers is compulsorily acquired, under this or any other Act, in pursuance of a notice to treat served on or after the appointed day, then if the compensation payable in respect of the acquisition is assessed in accordance with section two of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, it shall be assumed—

(a)that planning permission would be. granted for any development by virtue of which the use of the land would be made to correspond with the use which prevails generally in the case of contiguous or adjacent land; and

(b)(whether or not the provisions of the last foregoing subsection are applicable to the land in question) that no development charge would be payable in respect of any such development.

82Land held for charitable purposes.

(1)This section applies to land an interest in which is held for charitable or ecclesiastical purposes of any description if the land, as distinct from the rents and profits thereof is used in any manner (including use in a manner involving the beneficial occupation of the land by any person) for or in connection with the purposes for which the said interest is held, and not otherwise, or if the land would be so used but for the occurrence of war damage or but for the fact that the land is for the time being requisitioned land.

(2)No payment shall be made under Part V of this Act in respect of any such interest as aforesaid in land which, on the appointed day, is land to which this section applies; and no development charge shall be payable under Part VI of this Act in respect of any operations carried out on such land by the person entitled to any such interest for or in connection with the purposes for which that interest is held or in respect of any use of the land by that person for those purposes.

(3)Where any land which, on the appointed day, was land to which this section applies ceases at any time thereafter to be such land, no development charge shall be payable under Part VI of this Act in respect of any development by virtue of which the use of the land is made to correspond with the use which prevails generally in the case of contiguous or adjacent land, if planning permission for that development has been granted under Part II of this Act before the land ceases to be land to which this section applies.

(4)Where any Such interest as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section in land to which this section applies is compulsorily acquired under this or any other Act in pursuance of a notice to treat served on or after the appointed day, then if'—

(a)the land was land to which this section applies on the appointed day; or

(b)the land is being used at the time of the notice to treat for a purpose of such a nature that there is no general demand or-market for land for that purpose,

it shall be assumed, in assessing the compensation payable in respect of the acquisition of the said interest, that planning permission would be granted under Part II of this Act for any development by virtue of which the use of the land would be made to correspond with the use which prevails generally in the case of contiguous or adjacent land, and that no development charge would be payable under Part VI of this Act in respect of any such development.

(5)If, upon application made to him at any time within three years after the appointed day, the Secretary of State is satisfied—

(a)that any interest in land was held on that day for charitable or ecclesiastical purposes of any description, but that the land was not then used in any such manner as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section; and

(b)that it is reasonable, having regard to any proposals for its future use, that the land should be treated for the purposes of this section as if it had been so used,

he may, if he thinks fit, direct that the foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect in relation to the land, so long as that interest is so held, as if the land were land to which this section applies and had been such land on the appointed day:

Provided that subsection (3) of this section shall not apply by virtue of any such direction if the interest in question ceases to be held for charitable or ecclesiastical purposes before the land has been actually used in the manner aforesaid.

(6)For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section any interest in land which is held by the National Trust for Scotland shall be deemed to be used for the purposes for which that interest is held, and not otherwise, if, and only if, that interest is held by the Trust inalienably.

83Crown Land.

(1)In this and the next following section the expression " Crown land " means land an interest in which belongs to His Majesty in right of the Crown and land an interest in which belongs to a government department or is held in trust for His Majesty for the purposes of a government department.

(2)Notwithstanding any interest of the Crown in land being Crown land as defined by this section but subject to the following provisions of this section.—

(a)a development plan may include proposals relating to the use of the land and may designate the land as subject to compulsory acquisition, and any power to acquire land compulsorily under Part III of this Act may be exercised in relation to any interest therein which is for the time being held otherwise than by or on behalf of the Crown;

(b)any restrictions and powers imposed and conferred by Part II of this Act shall apply and be exercisable in relation to the land, to the extent of any interest therein for the time being held otherwise than by or on behalf of the Crown, and the provisions of that Part, and of Parts V, VI and VII of this Act shall have effect accordingly.

(3)Except with the consent of the appropriate authority as denned by this section—

(a)no notice or order shall be served or made under section twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-six, twenty-seven or thirty-one of this Act (or under any of those provisions as applied by any order or regulations made under Part II of this Act) in relation to land which for the time being is Crown land;

(b)no building which is for the time being Crown land shall be included in any list compiled or approved under section twenty-eight of this Act;

(c)no interest in land which is for the time being Crown land shall be acquired compulsorily under Part III of this Act.

(4)No purchase notice shall be served under section seventeen of this Act in relation to any interest in Crown land unless an offer has been previously made by the owner of that interest to dispose thereof to the appropriate authority on terms that the price payable therefor shall be equal to and shall be determined, in default of agreement, in like manner as the compensation which would be payable in respect of that interest if it were acquired in pursuance of such a notice, and that offer has been refused by that authority.

(5)No notice shall at any time be served under section twenty-one of this Act in respect of development carried out by or on behalf of the Crown after the appointed day on land which was Crown land at the time when the development was carried out.

(6)For the purposes of this and the next following section, the expression " the appropriate authority ", in relation to any land, means—

(a)in the case of land belonging to His Majesty in right of the Crown, the Commissioners of Crown Lands or other government department having the management of the land in question; and

(b)in the case of land belonging to a government department or held in trust for His Majesty for the purposes of a government department, that department;

and, if any question arises as to what authority is the appropriate authority in relation to any land, that question shall be referred to the Treasury, whose decision shall be final.

84Agreements and arrangements relating to Crown land.

—The appropriate authority and the local planning authority for the district in which any Crown land is situated may make agreements for securing the use of the land, so far as may be prescribed by any such agreement, in conformity with the provisions of the development plan applicable thereto (or, during any period before such a plan has become operative with respect to the land, in conformity with the requirements of the proper planning of that district), and any such agreement may contain such consequential provisions, including provisions of a financial character, as may appear to be necessary or expedient having regard to the purposes of the agreement:

Provided that—

(a)an agreement made under this section by the Commissioners of Crown Lands or by any government department shall be of no effect unless it is approved by the Treasury; and f:

(b)in considering whether to make or approve an agreement under this section relating to land belonging to a government department, or held in trust for His Majesty for the purposes of a government department, the department and the Treasury shall have regard to the purposes for which the land is held by or for the department.

85Requisitioned land.

(1)For the purposes of Part V of this Act, the development value of any interest in land which is requisitioned land on the appointed day shall be calculated as if the land had been on that day in the state in which it was immediately before the beginning of the period of requisition, and accordingly, in relation to any such interest, the second reference to the appointed day in subsection (5) of section fifty-eight of this Act, and any reference to that day in the Third Schedule to this Act, shall be construed as a reference to the beginning of the period of requisition:

Provided that—

(a)where a payment in respect of the value of any buildings or works erected or constructed on the land during the period of requisition has been or is required to be made to a Minister by any person interested in the land in pursuance of an agreement made between them or where any such buildings or works were otherwise erected or constructed wholly or partly at the expense of any such person, those buildings or works shall be treated for the purposes of this subsection as having been erected or constructed immediately before the beginning of the period of requisition; and

(b)in calculating the development value of any interest in the land, such adjustments as may be appropriate shall be made in respect of any development carried out during the period of requisition, being development in respect" of which compensation is payable under the Compensation (Defence) Act, 1939, or under regulations made under the [2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 62.] Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939.

(2)Where any payment falls to be made under section fifty-five of this Act in respect of any interest in land which is requisitioned land on the appointed day, any payment in respect of the value of any works on the land made to a Minister under Part II of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1945, in pursuance of a report of the War Works Commission, may include such sum as that Commission may think just, not exceeding the amount of the payment to be made under the said section fifty-five, in respect of any increase in the value of the interest in the land which is attributable to the carrying out of the works.

(3)In this section the expression " requisitioned land " means land of which possession has been taken on behalf of His Majesty in the exercise or purported exercise of emergency powers (that is to say powers conferred by regulations made under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939, by section fifty-two of the [26 & 27 Vict. c. 112.] Telegraph Act, 1863, or by section seven of the [10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 80.] Air Navigation Act, 1920, or exercisable by virtue of the prerogative of the Crown); and the expression " period of requisition " in relation to requisitioned land means the period during which possession of the land under such powers taken as aforesaid continues.

86Property of National Coal Board.

(1)Regulations made under this Act by the Secretary of State and the Minister of Fuel and Power with the consent of the Treasury may direct that any of the provisions of this Act relating to statutory undertakers and to land of such undertakers shall apply, subject to such adaptations, modifications and exceptions as may be specified in the regulations, in relation to the National Coal Board, and in relation to land (including mines) of that Board of any such class as may be specified in the regulations, as if the Board were statutory undertakers and as if the land of any class so specified were operational land within the meaning of this Act.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsection, any regulations made for the purposes of that subsection may in particular provide that any compensation payable to the National Coal Board by virtue of any of the provisions applied by those regulations, being compensation which, in the case of statutory undertakers, would be assessable in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule to the Act of 1945, shall, in lieu of being so assessed, be assessed in accordance with the provisions of the regulations.

87Land acquired by notice to treat served before appointed day.

(1)Where any interest in land is compulsorily acquired on or after the appointed day by any authority or person in pursuance of a notice to treat served before the passing of this Act, the provisions of this Act and of any scheme made under Part V of this Act shall apply in relation to that interest as if the purchase had been completed immediately before the appointed day.

(2)Where any interest in land is compulsorily acquired before the appointed day by any government department or local or public authority within the meaning of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, in pursuance of a notice to treat served after the passing of this Act, then—

(a)the provisions of Part V of this Act and of any scheme made thereunder shall have effect in relation to the land as if that interest had been subsisting on the appointed day with all incidents to which it was subject immediately before the date of the notice to treat, as if the land had been on the appointed day in the same state as it was immediately before the date of the notice to treat, and as if the person who was entitled thereto immediately before the date of the notice to treat had been entitled thereto on the appointed day; and

(b)except as aforesaid, no payment shall be made under the said Part V in respect of the interest so acquired, or in respect of any interest derived therefrom; and

(c)subject as hereinafter provided, nothing in this Part of this Act shall be construed as exempting from the payment of a development charge any operations carried out on the land by the person entitled to any such interest, or any use of the land by any such person:

Provided that paragraph (c) of this subsection shall not apply to any operations or uses of land which are exempted from the payment of a development charge by virtue of any of the provisions of section eighty of this Act.

(3)Where any interest in land is compulsorily acquired (whether before, on or after the appointed day) in pursuance of a notice to treat served after the passing of this Act, then—

(a)where the compensation payable in respect thereof falls to be calculated in accordance with any of the provisions of sections forty-nine to fifty-one of this Act, that provision shall apply, subject to any necessary modifications, for the purpose of calculating under Part V of this Act the restricted and the unrestricted values of that interest,

(b)where the compensation so payable falls to be assessed in accordance with Rule (5) of the rules set out in section two of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, as amended by subsection (2) of section fifty-three of this Act, the provisions of the said Rule (5), as so amended, shall apply, subject to any necessary modifications, for the purpose of calculating under the said Part V the restricted value of that interest;

and any calculation of those values previously made under the said Part V shall be adjusted accordingly.

(4)Subject as hereinafter provided, the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply where an interest in land is acquired by agreement by any authority or person who have power or could be authorised to acquire that interest compulsorily under any enactment, as they apply where an interest in land is compulsorily acquired, and in relation to any such acquisition any reference in those provisions to the service of notice to treat shall be construed as a reference to the making of the contract, and the reference in the last foregoing subsection to compensation payable in respect of the compulsory acquisition shall be construed as a reference to the compensation which would be so payable if the land were compulsorily acquired:

Provided that—

(a)the provisions of section fifty of this Act shall not apply for the purpose of calculating the restricted and the unrestricted values of any interest acquired as aforesaid except in the cases provided by subsection (2) of that section, or by that section as extended by subsection (1) of section fifty-two of this Act;

(b)the provisions of Rule (5) of the rules set out in section two of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, as amended by subsection (2) of section fifty-three of this Act, shall not apply for the purpose of calculating the restricted value of any interest acquired as aforesaid except in the cases provided by subsection (3) of the said section fifty-three; and

(c)where any interest in land is acquired as aforesaid before the appointed day in pursuance of a contract made after the passing of this act the contract may provide that subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall not apply.

88Determination of questions under Part VII.

Any question whether land is land to which section seventy-nine, eighty of eighty-two of this Act applies shall be determined by the Secretary of State:

Provided that, before determining under this section any question whether any land is land to which section eighty-two of this Act applies, the Secretary of State may, and shall if the Court of Session so requires, state a case for the opinion of the Court of Session on the question whether an interest in that land is held for ecclesiastical or charitable purposes.

PART VIIIFinances of Local Planning Authorities.

89Exchequer grants to local planning authorities in respect of acquisition and clearance of land in re-development areas.

(1)Provision may be made by regulations made under this Act with the consent of the Treasury for the payment by the Secretary of State to local planning authorities of grants of such amounts, and payable over such periods and subject to such conditions, as may be determined by or under the regulations in respect of expenditure incurred by those authorities, in the exercise of powers conferred in that behalf by this Act, in connection with the acquisition and clearing of land approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the regulations, being land acquired for the re-development as a whole of areas of extensive war damage or areas of bad layout or obsolete development, or for the relocation of population or industry, or the replacement of open space, in the course of such re-development, or derelict land acquired for the purpose of bringing it into use.

(2)For the purposes of this section, any expenditure incurred by a local planning authority before the passing of this Act, under powers in that behalf conferred by the Act of 1945, in the acquisition or clearing of any such land as is mentioned in the foregoing subsection shall be treated as incurred in the exercise of the corresponding powers conferred in that behalf by this Act, and no grant shall be payable under the Act of 1945 in respect of the acquisition or clearing of any such land.

(3)Regulations made under this section may provide for the payment of grants thereunder, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the regulations, in respect of land appropriated by local planning authorities (whether before or after the passing of this Act) for any of the purposes specified in subsection (1) of this section as if the land had been acquired for those purposes at a cost of such amount, and defrayed in such manner, as may be determined by or under the regulations.

(4)Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this section, any regulations made thereunder may provide—

(a)for the inclusion in the expenditure incurred by local planning authorities in the acquisition of land for any of the purposes specified in subsection (1) of this section of any sums, or any part of sums, paid by those authorities in connection with any restriction imposed on the development or use of the land by or under any enactment (whether by way of compensation or by way of contribution towards damage or expense incurred in consequence of the restriction);

(b)for the calculation of grants payable under the regulations by reference to the amount of the annual costs incurred or treated as being incurred by local planning authorities in respect of the borrowing of money to defray expenditure in respect of which the grants are made;

(c)for the payment of such grants at different rates in respect of different parts of the period during which they are payable;

(d)for the payment of such grants at different rates to different local planning authorities according to the general financial position of those authorities respectively, and to the financial burdens assumed by them respectively in respect of the matters specified in subsection (1) of this section.

(5)Grants payable under regulations made for the purposes of this section shall not exceed the following amounts:—

(a)in the case of land acquired or appropriated for the re-development as a whole of areas of extensive war damage, or for the relocation of population or industry or the replacement of open space in the course of such re-development, an amount equal to ninety per cent. of the annual costs incurred or treated as being incurred by local planning authorities in respect of the borrowing of money to defray expenditure in respect of which the grants are made;

(b)in the case of any other land, an amount equal to eighty per cent. of the said annual costs.

(6)Any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in the making of grants in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

90Other Exchequer grants to local planning authorities.

(1)Provision may be made by regulations made under this 'Act with the consent of the Treasury for the payment by the Secretary of State to local planning authorities of grants of such amounts, and payable in such cases and subject to such conditions, as may be determined by or under the regulations—

(a)in respect of expenditure incurred by those authorities in the payment of compensation under Part II, Part VI or Part VII of this Act, other than compensation payable in respect of land compulsorily acquired by virtue of section seventeen of this Act or in taking any action under section twenty-four of this Act;

(b)in respect of loss incurred by those authorities in connection with the acquisition and clearing of land approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the regulations, including land compulsorily acquired by virtue of the said section seventeen, but excluding any such land as is mentioned in subsection (1) of the last foregoing section.

(2)Paragraphs (a), (b) and (d) of subsection (4) and subsection (6) of the last foregoing section shall apply in relation to regulations made under this section and to expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in the making of grants under such regulations as they apply in relation to regulations made under the last foregoing section and to expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in the making of grants under those regulations.

(3)Grants payable under regulations made for the purposes of this section shall not exceed an amount equal to fifty per cent. of the amount of the expenditure or loss in respect of which the grants are made.

91General provisions as to Exchequer grants to local planning authorities.

(1)It shall be a condition of the making of grants under regulations made for the purposes of section eighty-nine of this Act, in respect of expenditure incurred by a local planning authority in connection with the acquisition and clearing of any land—

(a)that there shall have been submitted to the Secretary of State such information as to the proposals of the local planning authority for the lay-out and redevelopment of the land as the Secretary of State may require in order to enable a comparison to be made between the, annual return to the authority from the carrying out of the redevelopment and the annual equivalent of the cost thereof; and

(b)that those proposals shall have been approved by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury as being likely to result in an annual return and an annual equivalent such as are mentioned in the foregoing paragraph which are reasonable in relation to one another having regard to the circumstances of the land and the requirements of a proper lay-out and redevelopment.

(2)Any approval of the Secretary of State required for the purposes of the payment of grant under section eighty-nine or section ninety of this Act in connection with the acquisition of land may be given subject to compliance with requirements imposed by the Secretary of State for securing that any negotiations for the acquisition of the land by the local planning authority will be carried out by the Valuation Office, and that any valuation of such land for the purposes of such acquisition, or for any purposes of the regulations, will be made by that Office.

(3)Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section any regulations made for the purposes of either of the two last foregoing sections may make provision whereby the payment of grants in pursuance of the regulations is dependent upon the fulfilment of such conditions as may be determined by or in accordance with the regulations, and may also make provision for requiring local planning authorities to whom grants have been so made to comply with such requirements as may be so determined.

92Grants in respect of certain compensation paid before the appointed day.

(1)Provision may be made by regulations made under this Act with the consent of the Treasury for the payment by the Secretary of State to local authorities who were interim development authorities for the purposes of the Act of 1932 of grants of such amounts, and payable in such cases, as may be determined by or under the regulations in respect of expenditure incurred by those authorities—

(a)in the payment of contributions under subsection (4) of section ten of the Act of 1932 in connection with applications for permission to develop land dealt with after the eleventh day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-three,

(b)in the payment of contributions under the said subsection (4) as applied by section four of the Town and Country Planning (Interim Development) (Scotland) Act, 1943, or of compensation under subsection (2) of section seven of that Act, in respect of the revocation or modification, after the date aforesaid, of any permission to develop land, whether granted before or after that date,

being contributions or compensation payable in respect of loss or damage which operated to reduce the development value on the appointed day of any interest in the land.

(2)The reference in the foregoing subsection to local authorities who were interim development authorities for the purposes of the Act of 1932 shall be construed as including a reference to local authorities being the constituent authorities of a joint committee who were such an interim development authority, and in relation to any such local authority the reference in that subsection to expenditure incurred by that authority shall be construed as a reference to expenditure incurred by the joint committee.

(3)Any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in the making of grants in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

93Power of Ministers to', contribute towards compensation paid by local authorities.

Where compensation is payable by a local authority under this Act in consequence of any decision or order given or made under Part II of this Act (including compensation payable in respect of land compulsorily acquired by virtue of section seventeen of this Act) then, if that decision or order was given or made wholly or partly in the interest of any service which is provided by a government department and the cost of which is defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament or out of the Road Fund, the Minister responsible for the administration of that service may pay to that authority, out of moneys so provided, a contribution of such amount as he may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine.

94Power of local authorities and statutory undertakers to contribute towards expenses of local planning authorities, etc.

(1)Any local authority and any statutory undertakers may contribute towards—

(a)any expenses incurred by a local planning authority in or in connection with the carrying out of a survey or the preparation of a development plan under Part II of this Act;

(b)any expenses incurred by a local planning authority in or in connection with the performance of any of their other functions under Part II or Part III of this Act.

(2)For the purposes of this section, contributions made by a local planning authority towards the expenditure of a joint planning committee or joint advisory committee shall be deemed to be expenses incurred by that authority for the purposes for which that expenditure is incurred by the committee.

95Expenses of, and borrowing by, local authorities.

(1)Any expenses incurred by a local highway authority under this Act shall be defrayed in like manner as expenses incurred by the authority on highways.

(2)Any expenses incurred by a local authority in pursuance of a purchase notice served under section seventeen of this Act or in the acquisition of land under section thirty-four of this Act, for the purposes of any function of that authority, shall be defrayed in like manner as other expenses incurred by that authority for the purposes of that function.

(3)A local authority may borrow for the purposes of this Act in accordance with the provisions of Part XII of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947.

(4)Nothing in this section shall authorise the exercise of the power of borrowing money thereby conferred otherwise than in compliance with the provisions of the [8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 18.] Local Authorities Loans Act, 1945, of any Defence Regulation within the meaning of the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 10.] Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945, for the time being having effect by virtue of that Act, and of any orders for the time being in force, made by the Treasury under section one of the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 58.] Borrowing (Control and Guarantees) Act, 1946.

PART IXSupplemental.

Supplementary provisions as to local planning authorities.

96Default powers of Secretary of State.

(1)If it appears to the Secretary of State after consultation with the local planning authority to be expedient that an enforcement notice should be served under section twenty-one of this Act, or under that section as applied by any order or regulations under Part II of this Act, or that a notice should be served under section thirty-one of this Act, in respect of any land, he may give directions to the local planning authority requiring them to serve such a notice, or may himself serve such a notice, and any notice so served by the Secretary of State shall have the like effect as a notice served by the local planning authority:

Provided that in relation to an enforcement notice so served by the Secretary of State, section twenty-two of this Act shall have effect as if for any reference therein to the local planning authority there were substituted a reference to the Secretary of State.

(2)If it appears to the Secretary of State, after consultation with the local planning authority, to be expedient that any of the following orders should be made under Part II of this Act, that is to say:—

(a)an order under section nineteen of this Act revoking or modifying any permission to develop land,

(b)an order under the said section nineteen as applied by any order or regulations under Part II of this Act,

(c)an order under section twenty-four of this Act requiring any use of land to be discontinued, or imposing conditions on the continuance thereof, or requiring any buildings or works on land to be altered or removed,

(d)a tree preservation order, or an order amending or revoking a tree preservation order, or

(e)a building preservation order, or an order amending or revoking a building preservation order,

he may give directions to the local planning authority requiring them to submit to him such an order for his confirmation, or may himself make such an order, and any order so made by the Secretary of State shall have the like effect as if it had been made by the local planning authority and confirmed by the Secretary of State under Part II of this Act.

(3)In relation to the making by the Secretary of State of any order under the last foregoing subsection, the provisions of Part II of this Act, and of any regulations made thereunder, with respect to the procedure to be followed in connection with the submission of such an order by the local planning authority, the confirmation thereof by the Secretary of State, and the service of copies thereof as so confirmed, shall have effect, subject to any necessary modifications, in relation to any proposal by the Secretary of State to make the order, to the making thereof by the Secretary of State and to the service of copies thereof as so made.

(4)If the Secretary of State is satisfied, after holding a local inquiry—

(a)that a local planning authority have failed to take steps for the acquisition of any land which in the opinion of the Secretary of State ought to be acquired by them under section thirty-five of this Act for the purpose of securing its use in the manner proposed by the development plan or, during the period before a development plan has become operative under this Act with respect to the district of that authority, for the purpose of securing the proper planning of that district, or

(b)that any local planning authority have failed to carry out, on land acquired by them under the said section thirty-five, or appropriated by them under section thirty-nine of this Act, any development which in the opinion of the Secretary of State ought to be carried out,

the Secretary of State may by order require the authority to take such steps as may be specified in the order for acquiring the land or carrying out the development, as the case may be.

(5)Any order under the last foregoing subsection shall be enforceable, on the application of the Secretary of State, by proceedings under section ninety-one of the [31 & 32 Vict. c. 100.] Court of Session Act, 1868.

97Power to transfer planning functions of town councils of small burghs to county councils.

(1)If at any time the Secretary of State considers it expedient in the public interest that the functions under this Act of a local planning authority being the town council of a small burgh should be transferred to the county council of the county within which that burgh is situated, he may by order transfer those functions to the county council, and where any such functions are so transferred any reference in this Act to the local planning authority shall in relation to the district of the small burgh be construed as a reference to the county council.

(2)An order under the foregoing subsection may make provision for such incidental and consequential matters as the Secretary of State may think fit, including the transfer to the county council of officers, property, rights and liabilities of the town council and the compensation of officers.

98Applications for planning permission, determination of development charges, etc.

(1)An application to a local planning authority for planning permission under Part II of this Act, and an application to the Central Land Board for the making or confirmation of any determination under Part VI of this Act, shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations under this Act and shall include such particulars and shall be verified by such evidence as may be required by the regulations or by any directions given by the local planning authority or the Board thereunder.

(2)Subject to the following provisions of this section, regulations made under this Act may provide for the combination in one document of—

(a)an application for planning permission in respect of any development;

(b)an application for a determination of the Central Land Board in respect of that development;

(c)any application or submission required to be made to a local authority in respect of that development under any enactment specified in the regulations;

and for the making of any such combined application in such form and manner and to such authority as may be prescribed by the regulations, and for the transmission of copies of the application by that authority to such other authorities or persons as may be so prescribed.

(3)Any regulations made for the purposes of the last foregoing subsection shall be made by the Secretary of State after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned; and different provision may be made by such regulations in relation to areas in which different enactments are in force.

(4)An application or submission required to be made to a local authority under any enactment specified in regulations made under subsection (2) of this section shall, if made in accordance with the provisions of the regulations, be deemed to be valid notwithstanding anything in that enactment, prescribing or enabling any authority to prescribe the form in which or the manner in which such an application or submission is to be made, but without prejudice to the validity of any application or submission made in accordance with that enactment, and without prejudice to any provision of that enactment enabling any such authority to require further particulars of the matters to which the application or submission relates.

General Provisions.

99Powers of entry.

(1)Any person duly authorised in writing by the Secretary of State or by a local planning authority may, at any reasonable time, enter upon any land for the purpose of surveying it in connection with—

(a)the preparation, approval, making or amendment of a development plan relating to the land, including the carrying out of any survey under Part II of this Act;

(b)any application under the said Part II, or under any order or regulations made thereunder, for any permission, consent or determination to be given or effected in relation to that or any other land under the said Part II or under any such order or regulations ;

(c)any proposal by the local planning authority or by the Secretary of State to serve or make any notice or order under the said Part II or under any such order or regulations as aforesaid;

and any person being an officer of the Valuation Office or a person duly authorised in writing by a local planning authority may, at any reasonable time, enter upon any land for the purpose of surveying it or estimating its value in connection with any claim for compensation payable by that authority in respect of that or any other land under Part II or Part VII of this Act.

(2)Any officer of the Valuation Office, or any person duly authorised in writing by a Minister having power to acquire land designated by a development plan under this Act as subject to compulsory acquisition or to authorise the acquisition of land so designated, and any person being an officer of the Central Land Board or a person duly authorised in writing by a local authority having power to acquire land under Part III of this Act, may, at any reasonable time, enter upon any land for the purpose of surveying it or estimating its value in connection with any proposal to acquire that or any other land or in connection with any claim for compensation in respect of any such acquisition.

(3)Any officer of the Valuation Office or of the Central Land Board may, at any reasonable time, enter upon any land for the purpose of surveying it or estimating its value in connection with—

(a)any claim for a payment in respect of that or any other land under Part V of this Act;

(b)any determination of the Board in respect of that or any other land under Part VI of this Act.

(4)A person authorised under this section to enter upon any land shall, if so required, produce evidence of his authority before so entering, and shall not demand admission as of right to any land which is occupied unless twenty-four hours notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier.

(5)Any person who wilfully obstructs a person acting in the exercise of his powers under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(6)If any person who, in compliance with the provisions of this section, is admitted into a factory, workshop or workplace discloses to any person any information Obtained by him therein as to any manufacturing process or trade secret, he shall, unless the disclosure is made in the course of his duty in connection with the survey or estimate for which he was authorised to enter the premises, be liable on summary conviction to, a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment' for a term not exceeding three months.

(7)Where any land is damaged in the exercise of a power of entry conferred under this section or in the making of any survey for the purpose of which any such power of entry has been so conferred, compensation in respect of that damage may be recovered by any person interested in the land from the Minister, Board or authority on whose behalf the entry was effected.

(8)Any expenses incurred by a Minister or the Central Land Board under the last foregoing subsection shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(9)Any power conferred by this section to survey land shall be construed as including power to search and bore for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of the subsoil or the presence of minerals therein:

Provided that a person shall not carry out any works authorised by this subsection unless notice of his intention so to do has been included in the notice required by subsection (4) of this section, and if the land in question is held by any statutory undertakers and those undertakers object to the proposed works on the ground that the carrying out thereof would be seriously detrimental to the carrying on of their undertaking, the works shall not be carried out except with the authority of the appropriate Minister.

100Local inquiries, etc.

(1)The provisions of section fifty of the Act of 1945 (which relate to local inquiries) shall be incorporated with this Act, subject to the amendments specified in the second column of the Eighth Schedule to this Act.

(2)Any inquiry in relation to an order under this Act which in certain events becomes subject to special parliamentary procedure, and any hearing in connection with an appeal against the refusal, or the grant subject to conditions, of an application by statutory undertakers for permission to develop operational land, or with any such application made by such undertakers and referred to the Secretary of State, or with the revocation or modification of permission to develop operational land granted to such undertakers, shall, if the Ministers concerned so direct, be held by Commissioners under the [26 Geo. 5. & 1 Edw. 8. c. 52.] Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1936; and any direction so given shall be deemed to have been given under section two as read with section ten of the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act, 1945.

(3)Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the First Schedule to the Act of 1945 shall not apply in relation to any order under this Act which in certain events becomes subject to special parliamentary procedure.

(4)Nothing in subsections (2) to (9) of section fifty of the Act of 1945 shall apply to any inquiry under this section by Commissioners under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1936.

101Service of notices.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section any notice or other document required or authorised to be served or given under this Act may be served or given either—

(a)by delivering it to the person on whom it is to be served or to whom it is to be given; or

(b)by leaving it at the usual or last known place of abode of that person, or, in a case in which an address for service has been furnished by that person, at that address; or

(c)by sending it in a registered letter addressed to that person at his usual or last known place of abode, or in a case in which an address for service has been furnished by that person, at that address; or

(d)in the case of a person on whom the notice is required to be served as being a person appearing from the valuation roll to have an interest in land, by sending it in a registered letter addressed to that person at his address as entered in the valuation roll; or

(e)in the case of an incorporated company or body, by delivering it to the secretary or clerk of the company or body at their registered or principal office, or sending it in a registered letter addressed to the secretary or clerk of the company or body at that office.

(2)Where the notice or document is required or authorised to be served on any person as having an interest in premises, and the name of that person cannot be ascertained after reasonable inquiry, or where the notice or document is required or authorised to be served on any person as an occupier of premises, the notice shall be deemed to be duly served if—

(a)being addressed to him either by name or by the description of " the owner ", "the lessee "or "the occupier ", as the case may be, of the premises (describing them) it is delivered or sent in the manner prescribed by paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of the last foregoing subsection; or

(b)being addressed as aforesaid and marked in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations under this Act for securing that it shall be plainly identifiable as a communication of importance, it is sent in a registered letter to the premises and is not returned to the authority sending it, or is delivered to some person on those premises or is affixed conspicuously to some object on those premises.

(3)Where the notice or other document is required to be served on or given to all persons having interests in or being occupiers of premises comprised in any land, and it appears to the authority required or authorised to serve or give the notice or other document that any part of that land is unoccupied, the notice shall be deemed to be duly served on all persons having interests in, and on any occupiers of, premises comprised in that part of the land (other than a person who has furnished that authority with an address for the service of the notice on him) if it is addressed to " the owners and any lessees and occupiers " of that part of the land (describing it), and is affixed conspicuously to some object on the land.

102Power to require information as to ownership of land.

The Secretary of State, the Central Land Board or a local authority may, for the purpose of enabling them to make any order or serve any notice or other document which they are by this Act authorised or required to make or serve, require the occupier of any premises and any person who, either directly or indirectly, receives rent in respect of any premises, to state in writing the nature of his interest therein and the name and address of any other person known to him as having an interest therein, whether as superior, owner, heritable creditor, lessee or otherwise; and any person who, having been required in pursuance of this section to give any information, fails to give that information, or knowingly makes any misstatement in respect thereof, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

103Expenses of tribunals, etc.

(1)The Secretary of State may pay to the chairman and members of any tribunal established for the purposes of this Act, or of regulations made thereunder, such remuneration (whether by way of salaries or by way of fees) and such reasonable allowances in respect of expenses properly incurred in the performance of their duties, as the Treasury may determine.

(2)Any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State under the last foregoing subsection, or in the payment of the expenses of any committee established under section twenty-nine of this Act, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

104Expenses of Ministers.

There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament—

(a)any expenses incurred by a Minister in the acquisition of land under Part III of this Act, other than expenses so incurred which are required to be defrayed out of the Road Fund;

(b)any sums payable into the Road Fund for the purpose of defraying expenses of the Minister of Transport under this Act;

(c)any sums authorised or required to be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament by virtue of any of the provisions of the Act of 1945 incorporated with Part III of this Act;

(d)any administrative expenses incurred by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Act.

105Determination of disputes as to compensation, etc.

(1)Except so far as may be otherwise provided by or under this Act, any question of disputed compensation under this Act (other than compensation payable in respect of the compulsory acquisition of land) shall be determined in the same manner as compensation on the acquisition of land falls to be determined under the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, and sections one, three, five, six and eight of that Act shall accordingly have effect subject to any necessary modifications.

(2)Any dispute arising under any provisions of this Act in relation to any land as to what is the use which prevails generally in the case of contiguous or adjacent land shall, if application in that behalf is made by any party to the dispute within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, by regulations made under this Act, be referred to and determined by the Central Land Board.

(3)Any. party to any such dispute "as aforesaid who is dissatisfied with the determination of the Central Land Board may, within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations made under this Act, appeal to the Secretary of State, whose decision shall be final.

106Appointment of arbiters under 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 57.

On appointing a person to be a member of the panel of official arbiters formed under section one of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, the Reference Committee may make it a condition of his appointment that while holding office he shall not himself engage, or be a partner of any other person who engages, in private practice or business.

107Regulations and orders.

(1)The Secretary of State may make regulations under this Act—

(a)for prescribing the form of any notice, order or other document authorised or required by this Act to be served, made or issued by any local authority;

(b)for any purpose for which regulations are authorised or required to be made under this Act, not being a purpose for which such regulations are authorised or required to be made by any other Minister, and in particular for prescribing anything which by this Act is required or authorised to be prescribed by regulations.

(2)Any regulations made under this Act (other than regulations which, by virtue of any provision of this Act, are of no effect unless they are approved by resolution of each House of Parliament) shall be laid before Parliament immediately after they are made, and if either House, within the period of forty days after the regulations are so laid before it, resolves that the regulations be annulled, the regulations shall thereupon cease to have effect, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.

(3)In reckoning for the purposes of the last foregoing subsection any such period of forty days, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.

(4)Any power to make an order conferred by the foregoing provisions of this Act shall include power to amend or revoke that order by a subsequent order made in like manner:

Provided that an order made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of paragraph 5 of Part II of the Third Schedule to this Act shall not be amended or revoked at any time after the appointed day.

108Assumptions as to planning permission.

(1)For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that where, under any provision of this Act, the value of any interest in land is required to be assessed on the assumption that planning permission would be granted for development of any class specified in the Third Schedule to this Act, that assumption is to be made on the footing that any such development must comply with the provisions of any enactment, other than this Act, which would be applicable thereto.

(2)For the purposes of paragraph 1 of Part II of the said Third Schedule, the erection on land within the curtilage of any such building as is mentioned in that paragraph of an additional building to be used in connection with the original building shall be treated as the enlargement of the original building; and where on the appointed day any two or more buildings comprised in the same curtilage are used as one unit for the purposes of any institution or undertaking, the reference in the said paragraph 1 to the cubic content of the original building shall be construed as a reference to the aggregate cubic content of those buildings.

(3)Any reference in the said Third Schedule to the cubic content of a building shall be construed as a reference to that content as ascertained by external measurement.

109Amendments and repeals.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, the enactments specified in the first column of the Eighth Schedule to this Act shall have effect, on and after the appointed day, subject to the amendments specified in the second column of that Schedule, being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.

(2)Subject to the provisions of this section, the enactments specified in the Ninth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed, in the case of enactments specified in Part I of that Schedule as from the passing of this Act, and in the' case of the enactments specified in Part II of that Schedule as from the appointed day, to the extent specified in relation thereto in the third column of that Schedule:

Provided that the repeal by virtue of this subsection of any enactment specified in Part I of the said Ninth Schedule shall not affect the operation of that enactment in its application to compensation in respect of land, compulsorily acquired in pursuance of a notice to treat served before the date of the passing of this Act or compensation in respect of any order or direction made or given before that date.

(3)The repeal or amendment by virtue of this Act of any enactment contained in Part I or Part III of the Act of 1945, other than an enactment specified in 'Part I of the Ninth Schedule to this Act, shall not affect the operation of that enactment as applied by the New Towns Act, 1946, but without prejudice to any amendment of the last mentioned Act effected by this Act.

(4)His Majesty may by Order in Council repeal or modify so much of any local enactment in force on the appointed day as confers any such powers or imposes any such prohibitions or restrictions as could be conferred or imposed by regulations made under section twenty-nine of this Act:

Provided that any Order in Council made under this subsection shall be subject to special parliamentary procedure.

(5)Without prejudice to the provisions of section thirty-eight of the [52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.] Interpretation Act, 1889 (which relates to the effect of repeals), the provisions of the Tenth Schedule to this Act (being transitory and consequential provisions) shall have effect in relation to the repeals effected by this section.

(6)In accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section the Act of 1945 shall have effect on and after the appointed day as set out in the Eleventh Schedule to this Act.

110Exercise of functions of Board of Trade.

Anything required or authorised under this Act to be done by, to or before the Board of Trade may be done by, to or before the President of the Board, any secretary, undersecretary or assistant secretary of the Board or any person authorised in that behalf by the President of the Board.

111Saving for Postmaster General.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, and to the provisions of subsection (4) of section twenty-two of the Act of 1945 as incorporated with this Act, nothing in this Act or in any order or regulations made thereunder shall affect any powers or duties of the Postmaster General under the provisions of the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1943, or apply to any telegraphic lines placed or maintained by virtue of any of those provisions.

(2)Where in pursuance of an order made by the Minister of Transport under section forty-six of this Act any highway is stopped up or diverted and, immediately before the date on which the order became operative, there was under, in, upon, over, along or across the highway any telegraphic line belonging to or used by the Postmaster General, the Postmaster General shall have the same powers in respect of that line as if the order had not become operative:

Provided that if any person entitled to land over which the highway subsisted requires that the telegraphic line should be altered, paragraphs (1) to (8) of section seven of the [41 & 42 Vict. c. 76.] Telegraph Act, 1878, shall apply to the alteration and accordingly shall have effect, subject to any necessary modifications, as if references therein to undertakers included references to the person so requiring the line to be altered.

(3)Where any order made under the said section forty-six provides for the improvement of any highway, not being a trunk road, and, immediately before the date on which the order became operative, there was under, in, upon, over, along or across the highway any telegraphic line belonging to or used by the Postmaster General; then if the local highway authority require that that line should be altered, paragraphs (1) to (8) of the said section seven shall apply to the alteration and accordingly shall have effect, subject to any necessary modifications, as if references therein to undertakers included references to the local highway authority.

(4)In this section the expressions " alter " and " telegraphic line " have the same meanings as in the Telegraph Act, 1878.

112Application to land regulated by special enactments.

(1)For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that the provisions of this Act, and any restrictions or powers thereby imposed or conferred in relation/to land, apply and may be exercised in relation to any land notwithstanding that provision is made by any enactment in force at the passing of this Act, or by any local Act passed at any time during the present Session of Parliament, for authorising or regulating any development of the land.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, references in any enactment contained in a local Act (including any such Act passed as aforesaid) to Part II of the Act of 1945 shall be construed—

(a)in relation to compensation payable on a compulsory acquisition of land thereunder in pursuance of a notice to treat served before the passing of this Act, as a reference to the said Part II as amended by this Act;

(b)in relation to compensation payable or a compulsory acquisition of land thereunder in pursuance of a notice to treat served after the passing of this Act, as a reference to Part IV of this Act:

Provided that no such enactment shall, by virtue of this subsection, be construed as excluding the application of the said Part IV in relation to compensation payable in respect of any compulsory acquisition of land.

113Interpretation.

(1)In this Act, except so far as the contrary is provided or the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—

• " Act of 1932 " means the [22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 49.] Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1932;

• " Act of 1945 " means the [8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 33.] Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1945;

• " advertisement " means any word, letter, model, sign, placard, board, notice, device or representation, whether illuminated or not, in the nature of and employed wholly or in part for the purposes of advertisement, announcement or direction, and without prejudice to the foregoing provision includes any hoarding or similar structure used or adapted for use for the display of advertisements, and references to the display of advertisements shall be construed accordingly;

• " agriculture " includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur, or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land), the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes, and " agricultural " shall be construed accordingly;

• " appointed day " means such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint;

• " appropriate Minister " means—

  (a)

  in relation to statutory undertakers carrying, on an undertaking for the supply of electricity, gas or hydraulic power, the Minister of Fuel arid Power;

  (b)

  in relation to the undertaking of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electricity Board, the Secretary of State;

  (c)

  in relation to statutory undertakers carrying on an undertaking for the supply of water, the Secretary of State; and

  (d)

  in relation to any other statutory undertakers as defined by this Act, the Minister of Transport;

• " area of extensive war damage " and " area of bad lay-out or obsolete development " mean an area consisting of. land shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State to have sustained war damage of, as the case may be, to be badly laid out or of : obsolete development, or consisting of such land together with other land, contiguous or adjacent thereto, being in each case land comprised in an area which is defined by a development plan as an area of comprehensive development;

• " building " includes any, structure or erection and any part of a building as so defined, but does not include plant or machinery comprised in a building;

• " buildings or works " includes waste materials, refuse and other matters deposited on land, and references to the erection or construction of buildings or works shall be construed accordingly;

• " building operations " includes rebuilding operations, structural alterations of or additions to buildings, and other operations normally undertaken by a person carrying on business as a builder;

• " building preservation order " has the meaning assigned to it by section twenty-seven of this Act;

• " clearing ", in relation to land, means the removal of buildings or materials from the land, the levelling of the surface of the land, and the carrying out of such other operations in relation thereto as may be prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this Act;

• " common " includes any town or village green and " open space " means any land laid out as a public garden or used for the purposes of public recreation or land being a disused burial ground;

• " Consolidated Fund " means the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, and includes the growing produce thereof;

• " development " has the meaning assigned to it by section ten of this Act, and ' develop "shall be construed accordingly;

• " development charge " means the development charge payable under Part VI of this Act;

• " development order " has the meaning assigned to it by section eleven of this Act;

• " development plan " has the meaning assigned to it by section three of this Act, and includes a plan made under subsection (5) of that section;

• " enactment " includes an enactment in any local or private Act of Parliament and an order, rule, regulation, byelaw or scheme made under an Act of Parliament, including an order or scheme confirmed by . Parliament;

• " engineering operations " includes the formation or laying out of means of access to highways;

• " erection " in relation to buildings includes extension, alteration and re-erection;

• " feu charter " includes a feu contract and any other instrument by which land is feued;

• " functions " includes powers and duties;

• " government department " includes the Electricity Commissioners;

• " heritable security " means—

  (a)

  a heritable security within the meaning of the [14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 27.] Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1924, exclusive of a security by way of ground annual and a real burden ad factum praestandum but inclusive of a security constituted by way of ex facie absolute disposition; or

  (b)

  an assignation in security of a lease recorded under the Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act, 1857; and the expression " heritable creditor " shall be construed accordingly;

• " improvement " in relation to a highway has the same meaning as the expression " improvement of roads " has in Part II of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909;

• " industrial building " has the same meaning as in the [8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 36.] Distribution of Industry Act, 1945;

• " interim development authority " means a local authority or joint committee empowered by an interim development order to permit the development of land;

• " interim development order " means an order made under subsection (1) of section ten of the Act of 1932;

• " land " includes land covered with water and any building as defined by this section, and, in relation to the acquisition of land under Part III of this Act, includes any interest or right in or over land;

• " large burgh " has the meaning assigned to it in the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947;

• " lease " includes a sub-lease, but does not include an option to take a lease;

• " local authority " means a county council, town council or district council, or any other authority within the meaning of the [54 & 55 Vict. c. 34.] Local Authorities Loans (Scotland) Act, 1891, and includes any joint board or joint committee of which all the constituent authorities are such local authorities as aforesaid;

• " local highway authority " means a highway authority other than the Minister of Transport;

• " local planning authority " has the meaning assigned to it by section two of this Act;

• " means of access " includes any means of access, whether private or public, for vehicles or for foot passengers, and includes a street;

• " minerals " includes all minerals and substances in or under land of a kind ordinarily worked for removal by underground or by surface working;

• " mining lease " means a lease, sub-lease, tenancy or licence conferring a right to win or work minerals;

• " Minister " includes the Treasury, the Admiralty, the Board of Trade and any other government department;

• " National Coal Board " means the National Coal Board established under the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 59.] Coal Industry Nationalisation Act, 1946;

• " National Trust for Scotland " means The National Trust for Scotland for Places of Historic Interest or . Natural Beauty incorporated by the Order confirmed by the [26 Geo. 5. & 1 Edw. 8. c. ii.] National Trust for Scotland Order Confirmation Act, 1935;

• " operational land ", in relation to any statutory undertakers, means land which is used for the purpose of carrying on the undertakings of those undertakers and land in which an interest is held for that purpose, not being land which, in respect of its nature and situation, is comparable rather with land in , general than with land which is used, or in which interests are held, for the purpose of the carrying on of statutory undertakings;

• " owner " in relation to any land, includes any person who under the Lands Clauses Acts would be enabled to sell and convey the land to the promoters of an undertaking;

• " planning permission " means the permission for development of land which is required by virtue of section ten of this Act;

• " planning permission granted for a limited period only " has the meaning assigned to it by section twelve of this Act;

• " planning scheme " means a scheme under the Act of ' 1932 or any enactment repealed by that Act;

• " purchase notice " has the meaning assigned to it by section seventeen of this Act;

• " relocation of population or industry " means, in relation to an area of extensive war damage or an area of bad lay-out or obsolete development, the rendering available elsewhere than in that area, whether in an existing community or a community to be newly established, of accommodation for residential purposes or for the carrying on of business or other activities, together with all appropriate public services, facilities for public worship, recreation and amenity, and v; other requirements, being accommodation to be : rendered available for persons or undertakings who are living or carrying on business or other activities in that area or who were doing so but by reason of war circumstances are no longer for the time being doing so, and whose continued or resumed location ;j in that area would be inconsistent with the proper planning thereof;

• " replacement of open space " means, in relation to an area of extensive war damage or an area of bad layout or obsolete development, the rendering of land available for use as an open space or otherwise in an undeveloped state in substitution for land in that area which is so used;

• " requisitioned land, " and " period of requisition, " have the meanings assigned to them by section eighty-five of this Act;

• " small burgh " has the meaning assigned to it in the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947;

• " statutory Undertakers " means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on any railway, light railway, tramway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, dock, harbour, pier or lighthouse v undertaking, or any undertaking for the supply of electricity, gas, hydraulic power or water, and , " statutory undertaking " shall be construed accordingly;

• " tree preservation order " has the meaning assigned to it by section twenty-six of this Act;

• " use ", in relation to land, does not include the use of land by the carrying out of any building or other operations thereon;

• " Valuation Office " means the Valuation Office of the Inland Revenue Department;

• " war damage " has the same meaning as in the War Damage Act, 1943.

(2)If any question arises, in relation to anything required or authorised to be done under this Act, which Minister was or is the appropriate Minister as defined by this section in relation to any statutory undertakers, that question shall be determined by the Treasury, and if any question so arises whether land of statutory undertakers is operational land as defined by this section, that question shall be determined by the Minister who is the appropriate Minister in relation to those undertakers.

(3)Words in this Act importing a reference to service of a notice to treat shall be construed as including a reference to the constructive service of such a notice which, by virtue of the Sixth Schedule to the Act of 1945, or of any other enactment, is to be deemed to be served.

(4)Any reference in this Act to the compensation payable in respect of the compulsory acquisition of land shall be construed as including a reference to compensation to be estimated, in connection with the acquisition, for damage sustained by reason of the severing of the land from other land held therewith or otherwise injuriously affecting such other land, and compensation to be so estimated for disturbance or any other matter not directly based on the value Of the land.

(5)References in this Act to any enactment shall- be construed as references to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment including, except where the context otherwise requires, this Act.

114Short title, commencement and extent.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947.

(2)This Act shall come into force on the appointed day:

Provided that—

(a)section one of this Act, and

(b)subsection (2) of section thirty-four of this Act and subsection (2) of section thirty-five of this Act and any other provisions in Part III of this Act which relate to the acquisition of land under either of those subsections, and

(c)Part IV of this Act, so much of section eighty-seven of this Act as relates to land acquired before the appointed day, subsection (2) of section one hundred and nine of this Act so far as it relates to Part I of the Ninth Schedule to this Act, and Part I of the said Ninth Schedule, and

(d)sections ninety-five, one hundred and two, one hundred and four, one hundred and six and one hundred and eleven,

shall come into force on the date of the passing of this Act.

(3)This Act shall extend to Scotland only.