Town and Country Planning Act 1990

132 Registration of compensation

(1) Where, on a claim for compensation under this Part in respect of a planning decision, compensation of an amount exceeding £20 has become payable, the Secretary of State shall cause notice of that fact to be deposited—

(a) with the council of the district or London borough in which the land is situated, and

(b) if that council is not the local planning authority, with the local planning authority.

(2) Notices deposited under this section must specify—

(a) the planning decision and the land to which the claim for compensation relates,

(b) the amount of compensation, and

(c) any apportionment of it under section 131.

(3) Notices deposited under this section shall be local land charges, and for the purposes of the [1975 c. 76.] Local Land Charges Act 1975 the council with whom any such notice is deposited shall be treated as the originating authority as respects the charge constituted by it.

(4) In relation to compensation specified in a notice registered under this section, references in this Part to so much of the compensation as is attributable to a part of the land to which the notice relates shall be construed as follows—

(a) if the notice does not include an apportionment under section 131, the amount of the compensation shall be treated as distributed rateably according to area over the land to which the notice relates;

(b) if the notice includes such an apportionment—

(i) the compensation shall be treated as distributed in accordance with that apportionment as between the different parts of the land by reference to which the apportionment is made; and

(ii) so much of the compensation as, in accordance with the apportionment, is attributed to a part of the land shall be treated as distributed rateably according to area over that part.