The Midland Metro (Birmingham City Centre Extension, etc.) (Edgbaston Extension Land Acquisition) Order 2019

Compensation enactments

1.  The enactments for the time being in force with respect to the compensation for the compulsory purchase of land apply, with the necessary modifications as respects compensation, in the case of a compulsory acquisition under this Order of a right by the creation of a new right as they apply as respects compensation on the compulsory purchase of land and interests in land.

2.—(1) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph 1, the 1961 Act has effect subject to the following modification set out in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) For section 5A(5A)(1) (relevant valuation date) of the 1961 Act substitute—

“(5A) If—

(a) the acquiring authority enters on land for the purposes of exercising a right in pursuance of a notice of entry under section 11(1) of the 1965 Act (as modified by paragraph 5(5) of Schedule 2 to the Midland Metro (Birmingham City Centre Extension, etc.) (Edgbaston Extension Land Acquisition) Order 2019 (“the 2019 Order”)),

(b) the acquiring authority is subsequently required by a determination under paragraph 12 of Schedule 2A to the 1965 Act (as substituted by paragraph 5(8) of Schedule 2 to the 2019 Order) to acquire an interest in the land, and

(c) the acquiring authority enters on and takes possession of that land,

the authority is deemed for the purposes of subsection (3)(a) to have entered on that land when it entered on that land for the purpose of exercising that right.”

3.—(1) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph 1, the Land Compensation Act 1973(2) has effect subject to the modification set out in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) In section 44(1) (compensation for injurious affection), as it applies to compensation for injurious affection under section 7 (measure of compensation in case of severance) of the 1965 Act, as substituted by paragraph 5(3)—

(a) for the words “land is acquired or taken” substitute “a right over land is acquired”; and

(b) for the words “acquired or taken from him” substitute “over which the right is exercisable”.

(1)

As inserted by section 103 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) and further amended by sections 190 and 199 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 16, paragraph 4 of Part 2 of Schedule 17 and paragraph 9 of Part 2 of Schedule 18 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22) and S.I. 2009/1307.

(2)

1972 c. 26.