Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023

187 Common standards for compulsory purchase data

(1) The Secretary of State may, by regulations, make provision requiring an acquiring authority, in preparing, holding or providing such of its relevant compulsory purchase data as is specified or described in the regulations, to comply with any approved data standards which are applicable.

(2) “Acquiring authority” means any person who is, or may be, authorised under an enactment to acquire land compulsorily.

(3) “Approved data standards”, in relation to relevant compulsory purchase data, are such written standards, containing technical specifications or other requirements in relation to the data, or in relation to preparing, holding or providing the data, as may be published by the Secretary of State from time to time.

(4) “Relevant compulsory purchase data” means information that is, or is to be, contained in relevant compulsory purchase documentation.

(5) “Relevant compulsory purchase documentation” means an order or notice or any other documentation that is, or is to be, prepared by an acquiring authority (acting as such) under or for the purposes of relevant compulsory purchase legislation.

(6) “Relevant compulsory purchase legislation” means provision made by or under—

(a) the Land Compensation Act 1961,

(b) the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965,

(c) the Land Compensation Act 1973,

(d) sections 10 to 16 of, and Schedules 4 and 5 to, the New Towns Act 1981,

(e) the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981,

(f) the Acquisition of Land Act 1981,

(g) section 9 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992,

(h) Part 7 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016, or

(i) Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017.

(7) “Providing”, in subsection (1), includes submitting, issuing, serving, notifying and publishing.