Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act 1957

17 Modification of s. 18 (5) of 8 and 9 Geo. 6. c. 33 in relation to exporting authorities

Where by subsection (5) of section eighteen of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1945, a local planning authority, being an exporting authority, in exercising their power under that section of disposing of land comprised in an area defined by a development plan as an area of comprehensive development, and the Secretary of State in exercising his power of consenting to such disposal, are obliged to secure to any person so far as may be practicable an opportunity to obtain accommodation on that land, the obligation shall be treated as discharged if there is afforded to the person an opportunity to obtain, on land in, or in the vicinity of and readily accessible to, an area where housing accommodation has been, or is being, provided in pursuance of any such arrangements as are mentioned in subsection (1) of section eight of this Act (being arrangements to which the said local planning authority are a party), accommodation suitable to his reasonable requirements on terms such as are mentioned in the said subsection (5).