Additions to provisions relating to interest on compensation2.

Part I (compensation provisions that do not provide for interest) of Schedule 18 to the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 shall be amended by the insertion, after the entry relating to section 35A(4) of the Environmental Protection Act 19902, of the following—

“Section 78G(5) of that Act

In the case of so much of the compensation as is payable under section 78G—

  1. (a)

    by virtue of paragraph 4(a) or (b) of Schedule 2 (compensation for rights of entry etc.) to the Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2000, the date of the depreciation;

  2. (b)

    by virtue of paragraph 4(c), (d) or (e) of that Schedule, the date on which the loss is sustained or the damage is done; or where injurious affection is sustained, the date of the injurious affection;

  3. (c)
    by virtue of paragraph 5(6) of that Schedule, the date on which the expenses become payable.3"”