Housing Act 1988

Land Compensation Act 1961

6 The [1961 c. 33.] Land Compensation Act 1961 shall have effect in relation to orders under section 76 of this Act subject to the modifications in paragraphs 7 to 11 below.

7 References to the date of service of a notice to treat shall be treated as references to the date on which an order under section 76 of this Act comes into force.

8 Section 17(2) shall be treated as if for the words “the authority proposing to acquire it have served a notice to treat in respect thereof, or an agreement has been made for the sale thereof to that authority” there were substituted the words “an order under section 76 of the Housing Act 1988 vesting the land in which the interest subsists in a housing action trust has come into force, or an agreement has been made for the sale of the interest to such a trust”.

9 In section 22—

(a) subsection (2) shall be treated as if at the end of paragraph (c) there were added the words “or

(cc) where an order has been made under section 76 of the Housing Act 1988 vesting the land in which the interest subsists in a housing action trust”; and

(b) subsection (3) shall be treated as if, in paragraph (a), after the words “paragraph (b)” there were inserted “or paragraph (cc)”.

10 Any reference to a notice to treat in section 39(2) shall be treated as a reference to an order under section 76 of this Act.

11 In Schedule 2, paragraph 1(2) shall be treated as if at the end there were added the following paragraph—

“(k) an acquisition by means of an order under section 76 of the Housing Act 1988 vesting land in a housing action trust.”