Town and Country Planning Act 1971

PART IX Compensation Under Part VIII of this Act

Compensation to statutory undertakers

54 Subsection (3) of section 165 of this Act shall not apply where the refusal or grant of planning permission referred to in subsection (1)(c) of that section was before 6th December 1968.

Contribution by Secretary of State towards compensation

55 For the purposes of the construction of section 167(1) of this Act in accordance with Part I of this Schedule, any compensation which could have been claimed and would have been payable under Part V of the Act of 1954, as well as any compensation which could have been claimed and would have been payable under Part II of that Act, shall be treated as compensation which could have been claimed and would have been payable under provisions of that Act corresponding to the provisions of Part VII of this Act.

Recovery of compensation

56 For the purposes of the construction of section 168(3) of this Act in accordance with Part I of this Schedule, any grant paid—

(a) under the provisions of the section substituted by section 50 of the Act of 1954 for section 93 of the Act of 1947, but without the amendments made by the [1958 c. 55.] Local Government Act 1958 ; or

(b) under the provisions of Part IX of the Act of 1947 as originally enacted,

as well as any grant paid under the provisions of the said section 93 as in force immediately before the commencement of the Act of 1962, shall be treated as a grant paid under provisions corresponding to those of Part XIII of this Act.