In relation to compensation accruing due after the twenty-ninth day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, by virtue of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section two of the M1Compensation (Defence) Act, 1939 (which relates to compensation payable in respect of damage occurring to requisitioned land during the period of requisition), section fifty-three of the Act of 1954 (which limits the amount of that compensation) shall have effect as if any reference to the price which, at the relevant time and in the relevant circumstances, would be the compulsory purchase price of the land were a reference to the value which, at that time and in those circumstances, would be the value of such an interest in the land as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of the said section fifty-three (that is to say, a freehold interest free from incumbrances but subject to any easement or other restriction affecting the land at the relevant time).

In this section “the relevant time” means the time when the compensation accrues due, and “in the relevant circumstances” means if the land were at the relevant time in the state in which it was when possession of the land was taken in the exercise of emergency powers.

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In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—

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• “the Act of 1947” means the M2Town and Country Planning Act, 1947;

• “the Act of 1954” means the M3Town and Country Planning Act 1954;

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• “disposal” means disposal by way of sale, exchange, F13. . . or lease, or by way of the creation of any easement, F13. . ., right or privilege, or in any other manner, except by way of appropriation, gift, mortgage F13. . . and “dispose of” shall be construed accordingly;

• “function” means a power or a duty, and “grant-aided function”, in relation to a body, means a function in respect of which a grant or contribution F23... F13. . . F14. . . F13. . . is payable to that body by a government department out of moneys provided by Parliament;

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• “local enactment” means a local or private Act, or an order confirmed by Parliament or brought into operation in accordance with special parliamentary procedure;

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References in this Act to any enactment shall, except where the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.

This Act may be cited as the Town and Country Planning Act, 1959; F21. . . . . . F22.

This Act shall come into operation at the end of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.

This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.