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Part VIS Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions

49—54.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1S

55 Compensation for damage to requisitioned land.S

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, any compensation accruing due in respect of any land after the commencement of this Act by virtue of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section two of the M1Compensation (Defence) Act, 1939 (which relates to compensation payable in respect of damage occurring to requisitioned land during the period of requisition) shall not exceed the amount (if any) by which the value mentioned in paragraph (a) of the next following subsection falls short of the [F2value] mentioned in paragraph (b) of that subsection.

(2)The said [F2values] are—

(a)the value, at the time when the compensation accrues due, of thedominium utilein the land in question, subject to any feu-duty, any ground annual and any servitude or other restriction, affecting the land at that time but otherwise free from burdens, and

[F3(b)the value which such dominium utile (subject as mentioned in the preceding paragraph but otherwise free from burdens) would have at that time if the land were then in the state in which it was when possession thereof was taken in the exercise of emergency powers.]

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(4)Subsection (3) of section ten of the said Act of 1948 (which makes provision as to the matters to be taken into account in calculating the compulsory purchase price of the land in its existing state) shall apply for the purposes of this section, with the substitution, for references to the compulsory purchase price of land, of references to the value of such an interest as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section; and subsection (4) of that section (which provides for increased compensation in certain cases above the limit imposed by sub-section (1) of that section) shall apply for the purposes of this section, with the substitution, for the reference to subsection (1) of that section, of a reference to subsection (1) of this section.

(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5

56—68.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6S

69 Interpretation.S

(1)—(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7

(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8

(6)—(8). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7

(9)Any reference in this Act to thedominium utilein relation to land which is not held on feudal tenure shall be construed as a reference to the interest in the land of the owner thereof.

(10). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8

70. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9S

71 Short title, citation, commencement and extent.S

(1)This Act may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1954, and the M2Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Acts, 1947 M3 and 1951, the M4Town and Country Planning Act, 1953, in its application to Scotland, and this Act, may be cited together as the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Acts, 1947 to 1954.

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11

(4)This Act shall extend to Scotland only.