PART IGENERAL

Citation and commencement1

These regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Compensation and Certificates) Regulations 1974 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1974.

Interpretation2

1

The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

  • “the Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1971;

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

  • “the Act of 1962” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1962;

  • “the claimant” means the person by or on whose behalf a claim for compensation is made under Part VII of the Act;

  • “new apportionment” means an apportionment which relates wholly or partly to any matter to which no previous apportionment as defined by section 290(1) of the Act, related;

  • “original applicant” means a person entitled to exercise the right to claim compensation under Part VII of the Act, apart from these regulations;

  • “rentcharge payment” and “rentcharge claim” mean respectively a sum payable by the Secretary of State out of compensation under Part VII of the Act to which a rentcharge owner is entitled, if he makes a claim in that behalf under Schedule 2 to these regulations and a claim for a rentcharge payment.