SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Purchases by Ministers

Notices to owners, lessees and occupiers

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The Minister shall serve on every owner, lessee and occupier (except tenants for a month or any period less than a month) of any land comprised in the order a notice in the prescribed form—

a

stating the effect of the draft order,

b

stating that it is about to be made, and

c

specifying the time (not being less than twenty-one days from service of the notice) within which, and the manner in which, objections to the draft order can be made.

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For the purposes of this paragraph an occupier being a statutory tenant within the meaning of the M1Rent Act 1977 or the M2Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 F1or a licensee under an assured agricultural occupancy within the meaning of Part I of the Housing Act 1988 shall be deemed to be a tenant for a period less than a month.

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Where under this paragraph any notice is required to be served on an owner of land, and the land is ecclesiastical property, a like notice shall be served on the Church Commissioners.

In this sub-paragraph “ecclesiastical property” means land belonging to any ecclesiastical benefice, or being or forming part of a church subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop of any diocese or the site of such a church, or being or forming part of a burial ground subject to such jurisdiction F2or being diocesan glebe land within the meaning of the Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976.