Compulsory Purchase of Land (Procedure) (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 1964

Jersey Law 3/1964

 

COMPULSORY PURCHASE OF LAND (PROCEDURE) (AMENDMENT) (JERSEY) LAW, 1964.

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A LAW    to amend the Compulsory Purchase of Land (Procedure) (Jersey) Law, 1961, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

 

26th day of MARCH, 1964.

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(Registered on the 24th day of April, 1964).

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STATES OF JERSEY.

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The 8th day of October, 1963

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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law:  -

ARTICLE 1

In Article 4 of the Compulsory Purchase of Land (Procedure) (Jersey) Law, 19611 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”), for the words “within fifteen days after the service of the notice” there shall be substituted the words “within such period as the acquiring authority deems appropriate having regard to the circumstances of the case (which period shall in no case be less than twenty-eight days after the service of the notice)”.

ARTICLE 2

The proviso to sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) of Article 9 of the principal Law2 shall be deleted.

ARTICLE 3

After Article 16 of the principal Law,3 there shall be inserted the following Article –

“ARTICLE 16A

POWER TO PAY ALLOWANCES TO PERSONS DISPLACED

(1)          Where any land is acquired in accordance with the provisions of this Law, the acquiring authority may –

(a)        pay to any person displaced from a house or other building on that land such reasonable allowance as it thinks fit towards his expenses in removing therefrom; and

(b)        pay to any person carrying on a trade or business in any such house or building, such reasonable allowance as it thinks fit towards the loss which, in its opinion, he will sustain by reason of the disturbance of his trade or business consequent on his having to quit the house or building.

(2)          In estimating the loss of any person for the purposes of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) of this Article, the acquiring authority shall have regard to the period for which the premises occupied by him might reasonably have been expected to have been available for the purpose of his trade or business, and to the availability of other premises suitable for that purpose.”

ARTICLE 4

This Law may be cited as the Compulsory Purchase of Land (Procedure) (Amendment) (Jersey) Law, 1964.

 

A.D. LE BROCQ,

 

Greffier of the States.



1        Tome 1961–1962, page 392.

2        Tome 1961–1962, page 396.

3        Tome 1961–1962, page 400.


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