Acquisition of Land Act 1981

3 (1) The Minister shall serve on every owner, lessee and occupier (except tenants for a month or any period less than a month) of any land comprised in the order a notice in the prescribed form—

(a) stating the effect of the draft order,

(b) stating that it is about to be made, and

(c) specifying the time (not being less than twenty-one days from service of the notice) within which, and the manner in which, objections to the draft order can be made.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph an occupier being a statutory tenant within the meaning of the M1 Rent Act 1977 or the M2 Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 [F1 or a licensee under an assured agricultural occupancy within the meaning of Part I of the Housing Act 1988] shall be deemed to be a tenant for a period less than a month.

(3) Where under this paragraph any notice is required to be served on an owner of land, and the land is ecclesiastical property, a like notice shall be served on the Church Commissioners.

In this sub-paragraph “ecclesiastical property” means land belonging to any ecclesiastical benefice, or being or forming part of a church subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop of any diocese or the site of such a church, or being or forming part of a burial ground subject to such jurisdiction.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 140(1), Sch. 17 Pt. I para. 32(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 1 para. 3(1) modified by Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (c. 9, SIF 123:1), s. 50(3)

Marginal Citations

M1 1977 c. 42.

M2 1976 c. 80.