Sections 14, 22.
1(1)A notice relating to—
(a)a compulsory purchase of land in or surrounded by or adjoining a clearance area under Part III of the principal Act, or
(b)a clearance order under the said Part III, or
(c)a compulsory purchase of land under section three of this Act or section sixteen of the principal Act,
which by sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the principal Act, or sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 3 of the Third Schedule to that Act, or paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act, 1946, is to be served on an owner, lessee or occupier may be served in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph.
(2)The notice may be served on an owner, lessee or occupier of land by addressing it to him by the description of " owner" or " lessee " or " occupier " of the land (describing it) to which it relates and by delivering it to some person on the premises or, if there is no person on the premises to whom it may be delivered, by affixing it, or a copy of it, to some conspicuous part of the premises.
(3)The provisions of this paragraph shall be without prejudice to the power to serve a notice in accordance with section one hundred and sixty-seven of the principal Act or paragraph 19 of the First Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act, 1946.
2(1)Where the Minister would apart from this paragraph be required to hold a public local inquiry relating to—
(a)a compulsory purchase of land in or surrounded by or adjoining a clearance area under Part III of the principal Act, or
(b)a clearance order under the said Part III,
in pursuance of paragraph 4 of the First Schedule or, as the case may be, of paragraph 5 of the Third Schedule to that Act, he may instead afford to any person by whom any objection has been duly made under the said First Schedule or the said Third Schedule, and who has not withdrawn his objection an opportunity of appearing before and being heard by a person appointed by the Minister for the purpose, and shall consider the report of that person before deciding whether to confirm the order to which the objection relates.
(2)Section forty-one of the principal Act (which affords an objector to such an order as aforesaid the right to certain information) shall apply in relation to a hearing under this paragraph as it applies in relation to a public local inquiry.
3The shortest permissible notice required to be given under section one hundred and forty-five of the principal Act (which enables a local authority to obtain possession of land after notice to treat and before completion of the purchase) shall be fourteen days instead of twenty-eight days.