Recovery of sums from acquiring authorities
71(1)In relation to any acquisition or sale of an interest in land in pursuance of a notice to treat served, or contract made, before 30th October 1958—
(a)Section 257 of this Act shall not apply ;
(b)the repeals effected by the Act of 1962 shall not affect any right of recovering any sum in respect thereof under the provisions of section 52(6) of the Act of 1954 as originally enacted, or under those provisions as applied by regulations made under section 52(8) of that Act.
(2)Subject to sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, section 257 of this Act shall have effect in relation to interests in land acquired or sold as therein mentioned whether before or after the commencement of this Act; and for the purposes of the construction of that section in accordance with Part I of this Schedule, any notice registered under the provisions of section 28 of the Act of 1954 as applied by Part V of that Act, as well as any notice registered under those provisions as applied by Part IV of that Act, shall be treated as a notice registered under provisions of that Act corresponding to the provisions of this Act referred to in section 257 of this Act, and references in that section to compensation specified in a notice shall be construed accordingly.
72Section 258 of this Act shall have effect in relation to interests in land acquired or sold as therein mentioned whether before or after the commencement of this Act, except that it shall not have effect in relation to any acquisition or sale in pursuance of a notice to treat served, or contract made, before 6th August 1947.