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, 1961 (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 Law shall be deleted.
ARTICLE 3
After Article 16 of the principal Law, 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.