38(1)In the Land Compensation Act 1973 (in this Schedule referred to as “the 1973 Act), in section 29 (right to home loss payment where person displaced from dwelling) subsection (1) shall be amended as follows :—E+W+S
(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[(b)in paragraph (c) after the words “the carrying out of there shall be inserted the words “any improvement to the dwelling or of. . .]
[(c)for the words from “the acquiring authority to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the following paragraphs :—
“(i)where paragraph (b) above applies, the acquiring authority ;
(ii)where paragraph (b) above applies, the authority who made the order, passed the resolution, accepted the undertaking or served the notice ;
(iii)where paragraph (c) above applies, the authority carrying out the improvement or redevelopment ; and
(iv)where paragraph (d) above applies, the housing association carrying out the improvement or redevelopment.”]
[(2)After subsection (3) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
“(3A)For the purposes of this section a person shall not be treated as displaced from a dwelling on consequence of the acceptance of an undertaking, of the service of such an improvement notice as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above or of the carrying out of any improvement to the dwelling unless he is permanently displaced from it in consequence of the carrying out of the works specified in the undertaking or notice or, as the case may be, of the improvement in question.”]
[(3)In subsection (7) of that section . . . the words “and “redevelopment includes a change of use shall be omitted and at the end of that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
“(7A)In this section—
“improvement includes alteration and enlargement ; and “redevelopment includes a change of use.”]
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