Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981

3 Preliminary notices

—Before making a declaration under section 4 below with respect to any land which is subject to a compulsory purchase order the acquiring authority shall include the particulars specified in subsection (3) below in—

(a) the statutory notice of confirmation of the order, or

(b) in a notice which is given subsequently and to which the requirements of the relevant enactments with respect to the publication and service of the statutory notice of confirmation of the order shall apply.

(2) A notice under subsection (1)(b) above shall be given before the service of any notice to treat in respect of the land with respect to which the declaration is to be made.

(3) The particulars to be included in the notice are-

(a) such a statement of the effect of this Part, and Part III below, as may be prescribed, and

(b) a notification to the effect that every person who, if a general vesting declaration were executed in respect of all the land comprised in the order (other than land in respect of which notice to treat has been served), would be entitled to claim compensation in respect of any such land is invited to give information to the authority making the declaration in the prescribed form with respect to his name and address and the land in question.

(4) A notice complying with the preceding provisions of this section shall be registered in the register of local land charges by the proper officer of the local authority for the area in which that land, or any part of that land, is situated.

(5) In this section "statutory notice of confirmation", in relation to a compulsory purchase order, means the notice of the confirmation of the order which is required to be published or served by section 15 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, or by any other provision of the relevant enactments corresponding to that section.

(6) Where the acquiring authority is a Minister for references in subsections (1) to (4) above to the statutory notice of confirmation of the order there shall be substituted references to the notice of the making of the order which is required to be published or served by paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, or any other provision of the relevant enactments corresponding to that paragraph.