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39(1)In section 37 of the 1973 Act (disturbance payments for persons without compensatable interests) subsection (1) shall be amended—E+W+S

F1(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F2X1(b)by inserting, in paragraph (c), after the words “the carrying out of the words “any improvement to a house or building on the land or of ;]

F3(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F2X1(d)by making the like amendments as are specified, in relation to section 29(1) of that Act, in paragraph 38(1)(c) above.]

[F2X1(2)Subsection (3) of that section shall be amended as follows :—

(a)for the words “or redevelopment as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (c) there shall be substituted the words “improvement or redevelopment as is mentioned in paragraph (a), (c) or (d);

(b)for the words “or undertaking there shall be substituted the words “undertaking or improvement notice;

(c)for the words “or the undertaking was accepted there shall be substituted the words “the undertaking was accepted or the notice was served.]

[F2X1(3)After subsection (3) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

(3A)For the purposes of subsection (1) above a person shall not be treated as displaced in consequence of the acceptance of an undertaking, of the service of such an improvement notice as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of that subsection or of the carrying out of any improvement to a house or building unless he is permanently displaced in the carrying out of the works specified in the undertaking or notice, as the case may be, of the improvement in question.]

[F2X1(4)In subsection (9) of that section after the word “undertaking there shall be substituted the word “ “improvement.]

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X1The text of Ss. 130(4), Sch. 13 paras. 38(1)(b)(c), 38(2)(3), 39(1)(b)(d), 39(2)–(4), 40(1)–(5)(7), 41, 42(1)(a) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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