The New Towns Compulsory Purchase (Contemporaneous Procedure) Regulations 1965

Statutory Instruments

1965 No. 75

NEW TOWNS

The New Towns Compulsory Purchase (Contemporaneous Procedure) Regulations 1965

Made

21st January 1965

Laid before Parliament

27th January 1965

Coming into Operation

28th January 1965

The Minister of Housing and Local Government in exercise of the powers offerred on him by paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning Act 1944, as applied by the New Towns Act 1946, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations.

1.  These regulations may be cited as the New Towns Compulsory Purch (Contemporaneous Procedure) Regulations 1965, and shall come into operation on 28th January 1965.

2.—(1) In these regulations—

“designation order” means an order made under section 1 of the Act signating an area of land as the site of a new town;

“the Act” means the New Towns Act 1946;

“the Act of 1944” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1944 modified and applied by the Act;

“the Minister” means the Minister of Housing and Local Government

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of the regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

3.  Where, in respect of any new town (in this regulation referred to as “new town”)—

(a) the Minister has published in accordance with Schedule 1 to the a draft of an order which he proposes to make under sections, 1 19 of the Act, varying the designation order which designated the of the new town so as to include therein an additional area of land this regulation referred to as “the additional area”); and

(b) the said varying order has not yet been made,

any proceedings required by paragraphs 1 to 3 of Schedule 2 to the Act 1944 to be taken for the purposes of an order for the compulsory purchase the development corporation, of land in the additional area may be taken temporaneously with any proceedings required by the Act to be taken in connection with the said varying order.

Any proceedings which may be taken by virtue of the powers contained regulation 3 above shall, for the purposes of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1944, be deemed to be proceedings taken after the date on which the Minister makes the relevant varying order.

Given under the official seal of the Minister of Housing and Local Government on 21st January 1965.

L.S.

R. H. S. Crossman

Minister of Housing and Local Government

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations, which are made under paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning Act 1944, as applied by the New Towns Act 1946, make provision whereby certain preliminary steps in the procedure laid down for the compulsory purchase of land in an area proposed to be added to the site of a new town may be taken before the area has actually been added by an order under sections 1 and 19 of the New Towns Act 1946, but after the draft of such an order has been published in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 1 to that Act.