PART ICompensation for Compulsory Acquisition of Land
1General provisions as to measure of compensation
1
The following provisions of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947 (in this Act referred to as " the Act of 1947 "), and of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1954 (in this Act referred to as "the Act of 1954 "), that is to say.—
a
subsection (2) and subsections (4) to (6) of section forty eight of the Act of 1947 (which require compensation to be assessed on the basis of the existing use of the land), and
b
sections thirty-two to thirty-eight of the Act of 1954 (which provide for certain compensation in addition to compensation on the basis of existing use),
shall cease to have effect, except for the purpose of assessing compensation in respect of compulsory acquisitions to which this section does not apply; and, subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, compensation in respect of compulsory acquisitions to which this section applies shall be assessed in accordance with the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (in this Act referred to as " the Act of 1919 ").
2
This section applies to every compulsory acquisition of an interest in land in pursuance of a notice to treat served after the twenty-ninth day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.