12 Building and planning contraventions.U.K.
(1)In this section expressions which are also used in the M1Building Restrictions (War-Time Contraventions) Act 1946 have the same meanings as in that Act.
(2)Where—
(a)any interest in or right over land is transferred in pursuance of a provision made by virtue of section 1(1)(a) above,
(b)during the war period works on the land not complying with a building law or with planning control were carried out, or a use of the land not complying with planning control was begun,
(c)the works remained, or the use continued, from the end of that period to the time of the transfer, and
(d)immediately before the coming into effect of the transfer the building law or planning control was unenforceable in respect of the works or use,
the works or use shall, at all times after the coming into effect of the transfer, be treated for all purposes as complying with the building law or planning control.
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