New Towns Act 1981

4 (1) If the acquiring authority have, in respect of any of the land, served notice to treat on every owner of that land [F1 so far as known to the acquiring authority after making diligent inquiry in accordance with section 5(1) of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965], they may at any time afterwards serve a notice— E+W

(a) on every occupier of any of that land, and

(b) on every person (other than such an occupier) who, having been served with a notice to treat in respect of that land, has requested the acquiring authority in writing to serve him with any notice under this sub-paragraph and has given them an address for its service,

describing the land to which the notice relates and stating their intention to enter on and take possession of it at the expiry of such period F2 ... as may be specified in the notice.

(2) The acquiring authority may enter on and take possession of the land to which such notice or notices relate—

(a) at the expiry of the period specified in the notice, or

(b) where two or more such notices are required, and the periods specified in the several notices do not expire at the same time, at the expiry of the last of those periods, or

(c) at any time after those expiries,

without previous consent or compliance with section 11 of the M1 Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 but subject to payment of the like compensation for the land of which possession is taken, and interest on the compensation agreed or awarded, as they would have been required to pay if those provisions had been complied with.

[F3 (2A) The period specified in a notice under sub-paragraph (1) must not end earlier than the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the day on which the notice is served unless—

(a) it is a notice to which paragraph 4A(4) applies, or

(b) it is a notice to which paragraph 13 of Schedule 2A to the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (as modified by paragraph 1(2)(g) above) applies.

(2B) A notice under sub-paragraph (1) must explain the effect of paragraph 4B (counter-notice requiring possession to be taken on specified date) and give an address at which the acquiring authority may be served with a counter-notice.

(2C) An acquiring authority may extend the period specified in a notice under sub-paragraph (1) by agreement with each person on whom it was served.

(2D) A reference in this Schedule to the period specified in a notice under sub-paragraph (1) is to the period as extended by any agreement under sub-paragraph (2C).]

(3) The provisions of this paragraph have effect instead of section 11(1) of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 6 para. 4(1) inserted (3.2.2017) by Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22), ss. 189(2)(a)(i), 216(3); S.I. 2017/75, reg. 3(e) (with reg. 5)

F2 Words in Sch. 6 para. 4(1) omitted (3.2.2017) by virtue of Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22), ss. 189(2)(a)(ii), 216(3); S.I. 2017/75, reg. 3(e) (with reg. 5)

F3 Sch. 6 para. 4(2A)-(2D) inserted (3.2.2017) by Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22), ss. 189(2)(b), 216(3); S.I. 2017/75, reg. 3(e) (with reg. 5)

Marginal Citations

M1 1965 c. 56.