Part V Planning Blight
Blight notices by personal representatives
73 Power of personal representative to serve blight notice.
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Where the whole or part of a hereditament or agricultural unit is comprised in land of any of the specified descriptions, and a person claims that—
a
he is the personal representative of a person (“the deceased”) who at the date of his death was entitled to an interest in that hereditament or unit; and
b
the interest was one which would have qualified for protection under sections 181 to 196 of the Act of 1972 if a notice under section 182 of that Act had been served in respect thereof on that date; and
c
he has made reasonable endeavours to sell that interest; and
d
in consequence of the fact that the hereditament or unit or a part of it was, or was likely to be, comprised in land of any of the specified descriptions, he has been unable to sell that interest except at a price substantially lower than that for which it might reasonably have been expected to sell if no part of the hereditament or unit were, or were likely to be, comprised in such land; and
e
one or more individuals are (to the exclusion of any body corporate) beneficially entitled to that interest,
he may serve on the appropriate authority a notice in the prescribed form requiring that authority to purchase that interest to the extent specified in, and otherwise in accordance with, the said sections 181 to 196.
2
Subsection (1) above shall apply in relation to an interest in part of a hereditament or agricultural unit as it applies in relation to an interest in the entirety of a hereditament or agricultural unit:
Provided that this subsection shall not enable any person—
a
if the deceased was entitled to an interest in the entirety of a hereditament or agricultural unit, to make any claim or serve any notice under this section in respect of the deceased’s interest in part of the hereditament or unit; or
b
if the deceased was entitled to an interest only in part of the hereditament or agricultural unit, to make or serve any such claim or notice in respect of the deceased’s interest in less than the entirety of that part.
3
Subject to sections 69(2) above and 75(2) below, the grounds on which objection may be made in a counter-notice under section 183 of the Act of 1972 to a notice under this section are those specified in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (2) of that section and, in a case to which it applies, the grounds specified in paragraph (d) of that subsection and also the following grounds—
a
that the claimant is not the personal representative of the deceased or that, on the date of the deceased’s death, the deceased was not entitled to an interest in any part of the hereditament or agricultural unit to which the notice relates;
b
that (for reasons specified in the counter-notice) the interest of the deceased is not such as is specified in subsection (1)(b) above;
c
that the conditions specified in subsection (1)(c), (d) or (e) above are not fulfilled.
4
For the purpose of section 190(4) and (5) of the Act of 1972 (which prevent the service of concurrent blight notices under sections 182 and 190 of that Act) a notice served under this section shall be treated as a notice served under the said section 182.
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