The Housing and Planning Act 2016 (Commencement No. 5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Regulations 2017

Transitional provisions: compulsory purchase

8.—(1) The amendments made by paragraphs 1 to 3 of Schedule 15 to the Act, in so far as they are brought into force by regulation 4(j), do not apply in relation to a compulsory purchase order which is made by the Welsh Ministers, or confirmed by the Welsh Ministers or an authorised authority, before 6th April 2017.

(2) The amendments made by paragraphs 4 to 7 of Schedule 15 to the Act, in so far as they are brought into force by regulation 4(j), do not apply in relation to a compulsory purchase of land which is authorised by—

(a) a compulsory purchase order which is made by the Welsh Ministers, or confirmed by the Welsh Ministers or an authorised authority, before 6th April 2017;

(b) an order under section 1 or 3 of the Transport and Works Act 1992(1) which is, before 6th April 2017, determined to be made by the Welsh Ministers under section 13(1) of that Act; or

(c) any other relevant order which is made by the Welsh Ministers before 6th April 2017.

(3) In this regulation—

“authorised authority” means an authority who is authorised to confirm the order instead of the Welsh Ministers under section 14A of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(2);

“relevant order” means an order which provides that the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981(3) is to apply to the compulsory purchase of land which it authorises as if the order were a compulsory purchase order.

(1)

1992 c. 42.

(2)

1981 c. 67. Section 14A was inserted by section 102 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5).

(3)

1981 c. 66.