Town and Country Planning Act 1954

51 Supplementary provisions as to Exchequer grants

(1) Nothing in the last preceding section, or in the amendments and repeals effected by the following provisions of this Part of this Act, shall affect the payment of any grant in respect of a year or part of a year ending on or before the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-five.

(2) As respects land of any of the following descriptions, that is to say—

(a) land comprised in a compulsory purchase order made by a local authority under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, or the principal Act, and confirmed before the twenty-sixth day of February, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, being land acquired, for any of the purposes specified in paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section ninety-three of the principal Act;

(b) land acquired by agreement for any of those purposes with the consent of the Minister given before that date;

(c) land appropriated by a local authority for any of those purposes before that date;

(d) land acquired or appropriated for any of those purposes (whether before or after that date), being land contiguous or adjacent to land falling within any of the preceding paragraphs,

paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of the section which, by the last preceding section, is substituted for the said section ninety-three shall apply as if for the reference in that paragraph to fifty per cent. of the annual costs or excess therein mentioned there were substituted a reference to ninety per cent. of those costs or of that excess, as the case may be:

Provided that this subsection shall not authorise the payment in the case of any land of a grant at a higher rate in respect of a year or part of a year which, together with the preceding years or parts of years in respect of which grants at a higher rate have been paid in the case of that land, would extend beyond a total period of eight years.

(3) For the purposes of any regulations made under section ninety-three of the principal Act (whether before or after the commencement of this Act), the definition in that Act of the expressions " area of extensive war damage " and " area of bad lay-out or obsolete development" shall apply, and be deemed always to have applied, as if in that definition the words " being in each case land comprised in an area which is defined by a development plan as an area of comprehensive development" had been omitted.

(4) In this section, references to section ninety-three of the principal Act are references to that section as it has effect apart from the last preceding section, and references to a grant at a higher rate are references to a grant of an amount authorised by the said section ninety-three as it so has effect, but not authorised (otherwise than by virtue of subsection (2) of this section) by the provisions substituted for that section by the last preceding section.