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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (c.56)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Compulsory Purchase Act 1965

1965 CHAPTER 56

Contents

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  1. Part I

    Compulsory Purchase under Acquisition of Land Act of 1946

    1. Preliminary

      1. 1. Application of Part I and interpretation

      2. 2. Persons without power to sell their interests

      3. 3. Acquisition by agreement in pursuance of compulsory purchase order

    2. Compulsory Purchase

      1. 4. Time limit

      2. 5. Notice to treat, and untraced owners

      3. 6. Reference to Lands Tribunal

      4. 7. Measure of compensation in case of severance

      5. 8. Other provisions as to divided land

    3. Deposit of compensation and execution of deed poll

      1. 9. Refusal to convey, failure to make title, etc

    4. Further provision as to compensation for injurious affection

      1. 10. Further provision as to compensation for injurious affection

    5. Entry on the land

      1. 11. Powers of entry

      2. 12. Unauthorised entry

      3. 13. Refusal to give possession to acquiring authority

    6. Acquisition of special interests

      1. 14. Mortgages

      2. 15. Mortgage debt exceeding value of mortgaged land

      3. 16. Acquisition of part of land subject to mortgage

      4. 17. Compensation where mortgage paid off before stipulated time

      5. 18. Rentcharges

      6. 19. Apportionment of rent under leases

      7. 20. Tenants at will, etc

      8. 21. Common land

    7. Supplemental

      1. 22. Interests omitted from purchase

      2. 23. Costs of conveyances etc

      3. 24. Power to sell in consideration of a rentcharge

      4. 25. Payment into court

      5. 26. Costs in respect of money paid into court

      6. 27.

      7. 28. General provisions as to deeds poll

      8. 29. Irregularities in proceedings under the Act

      9. 30. Service of notices

      10. 31. Ecclesiastical property

      11. 32. Commencement of Part I

  2. Part II

    Application of Part I in other cases and Supplemental Provisions

    1. 33. Compulsory purchase orders under Water Acts 1945 and 1948

    2. 34. Compulsory purchase orders under Part III of Housing Act 1957

    3. 35.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. 36. Orders relating to acquisition of land under s. 67 of Water Resources Act 1963

    5. 37. Compulsory purchase orders under s. 11 of Pipe-lines Act 1962

    6. 38. Application to enactments authorising acquisition of land by agreement

    7. 39. Consequential amendments and repeals

    8. 40. Short title, commencement and extent

  3. SCHEDULE 1

    Persons without Power to sell their Interests

  4. SCHEDULE 2

    Absent and Untraced Owners

  5. SCHEDULE 3.

    Alternative Procedure for obtaining Right of Entry

  6. SCHEDULE 4

    Common Land

  7. SCHEDULE 5

    Forms of Conveyance

  8. SCHEDULE 6

    POWERS OF PURCHASING LAND BY AGREEMENT

  9. SCHEDULE 7

    Consequential Amendments of References to Enactments Re-enacted in this Act

  10. SCHEDULE 8

    Repeals

An Act to consolidate the Lands Clauses Acts as applied by Part I of Schedule 2 to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946, and by certain other enactments, and to repeal certain provisions in the Lands Clauses Acts and related enactments which have ceased to have any effect.

[5th August 1965]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act: modified (23.8.1999) by S.I. 1999/2981, art. 17(3), Sch. 7 paras. 3-9

C2Act: applied (with modifications) (20.8.1999) by S.I. 1999/2336, art. 14(3), Sch. 4 paras. 3-9

C3Act applied with modifications by Land Commission Act 1967 (c. 1), ss. 10, 14(4), and Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), s. 28(4), Sch. 3 para. 3

C4Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948(c. 62),s. 3

C5Act modified by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70, SIF 81:1), s. 129

C6Act applied with modifications by Land Drainage Act 1976 (c. 70, SIF 73:1), s. 37(4); by Development of Rural Wales Act 1976 (c. 75, SIF 64), ss. 6(2)(4)(6)(7), 27, Sch. 4 Pt. II, Sch. 7 para. 5(5); by S.I. 1978/268, art. 4 and by Highways Act 1980 (c. 66, SIF 59), s. 250, Sch. 19

C7Act applied with modifications by Housing Act 1985 (c. 68, SIF 61), s. 578

C8Act applied with modifications by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 78(2)(b), Sch. 10 Pt. III paras. 20–23

C9Act applied with modifications by Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), s. 10(1), Sch. 3 paras. 6–13

C10Act modified by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57, SIF 81:1), s. 13(2); by Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 (c. 66, SIF 28:1), s. 7(1)(b) and by Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67, SIF 28:1), s. 30(1)

C11Act modified by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 151(5), Sch. 18 para. 2(1) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58)

C12Act extended and applied by Heathrow Express Railway Act 1991 (c. vii), s. 21(3)(a).

C13Act modified by Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8, SIF 123:1), s. 245(4)

C14Act amended by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 9(3), Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 5

C15Act applied in part with modifications by Killingholme Generating Stations (Ancillary Powers) Act 1991 (c. viii), ss. 2(2), 20(4), 24(2).

C16Act: definition applied (26.7.1991) by S.I. 1991/1760, art. 5(2).

C17Act applied with modifications (01.12.1991) by Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56, SIF 130), ss. 155(5), 223(2), Sch. 9

C18Act modified (01.12.1991) by Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57, SIF 130), ss. 154(5), 225(2), Sch.18.

C19Power to modify conferred (01.12.1991) by Land Drainage Act 1991 (c. 59, SIF 73:1), ss. 62(5)(b), 76(2) (with ss. 67(3)(5)(8), 72(6)(8), 74(3)(4)).

C20Act applied (16.3.1992) by Avon Weir Act 1992 (c. v), s.31(2) (with s. 61)

Act applied (16.3.1992) by Aire and Calder Navigation Act 1992 (c. iv), s. 28(2) (with s. 38)

Act applied (16.7.1992) by Cattewater Reclamation Act 1992 (c. xiv), s.9(2) (with ss. 23, 24, 27, 33)

Act applied (21.7.1994) by 1994 c. xv, s. 32(3)

Act applied (31.10.1994) by 1958 c. 69, s. 16(4A) (as inserted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 52, Sch. 8 (with s. 40(3)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2)

C21Act applied (with modifications) (10.11.1993) by 1993 (c. 28), s. 169, Sch. 20 paras. 20-23; S.I. 1993/2762, art.3

Act applied (with modifications) (31.3.1994) by 1994 c. iv, ss. 4, 17(2)

Act applied (with modifications) (26.5.1994) by 1994 c. vi, s. 13(3)

Act applied (with modifications) (7.3.1995) by S.I. 1995/519, art. 23(3), Sch. 4 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (11.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2714, art. 26(3), Sch. 6 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (10.2.1997) by S.I. 1997/264, art. 19(3), Sch. 7 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (21.5.1997) by S.I. 1997/1266, art. 26(3), Sch. 8 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (27.8.1998) by S.I. 1998/1936, art. 29(2)(3), Sch. 7 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (25.11.1998 for specified purposes and otherwise 3.7.2000) by 1998 c. 45, s. 20(1), Sch. 5 Pt. II para. 3(1); S.I. 1998/2952, art. 2(2); S.I. 2000/1173, art. 2(c)

Act applied (with modifications) (24.12.1999) by S.I. 2000/428, art. 13, Sch. 3 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (26.3.2001) by 2000 c. 26, s. 95, Sch. 5, Pt. II para. 5; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(3), Sch. 3

Act applied (with modifications) (2.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1367, art. 9, Sch. 2 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (2.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1368, art. 9, Sch. 3 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (2.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1369, art. 6, Sch. 1 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (29.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1347, art. 26, Sch. 7 para. 3(1) (with arts. 15, 37, 38(2))

Act applied (with modifications) (29.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1348, art. 6(3), Sch. 2 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (18.7.2001) by S.I. 2001/2870, art. 15, Sch. 2 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (24.7.2001) by S.I. 2001/3627, art. 38, Sch. 8 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (9.11.2001) by S.I. 2001/3682, art. 21, Sch. 7 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (14.3.2002) by S.I. 2002/412, art. 18, Sch. 4, para. 3(1) (with art. 38)

Act applied (with modifications) (30.4.2002) by S.I. 2002/1064, art. 11, Sch. 2 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (30.4.2002) by S.I. 2002/1065, art. 11, Sch. 3 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (30.4.2002) by S.I. 2002/1066, art. 23, Sch. 7 para. 3(1)

Act applied (with modifications) (31.5.2002) by S.I. 2002/1327, art. 21, Sch. 4, para. 3(1)

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