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LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
LONG TITLE

An Act to make fresh provision in relation to the payment of
compensation in respect of planning decisions and orders revoking or
modifying the grant of planning permission; to authorise the recovery
of planning compensation on the initiation of certain subsequent
development; to make further provision in relation to applications
for planning permission; and for purposes connected with those
matters.
[4th November 1965]
PART I

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 1

1. For the purposes of this Part, land shall, subject to section
3(8), be taken to have a development value where the unrestricted
value of that land exceeds the restricted value of that land; and
subject to this Part, any reference in this Part to the development
value of any land is a reference to the amount of that excess.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 2
Meaning of ""unrestricted'' and ""restricted'' value.

2.(1) Subject to section 3, in this Part

(a)the unrestricted value of any land is the value that a fee
simple absolute in possession in the land would have had on 25th
February 1963;

(b)the restricted value of any land is the value that such a fee
simple would have had on 25th February 1963 if computed on the
assumption that planning permission would have been granted for any
development of that land of a class specified in Schedule 1, but
would not have been granted for any other development.

(2) Schedule 2 shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the
general classes referred to in paragraph 6 of Schedule 1.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 3
Basis of calculation of restricted and unrestricted values of land.

3.(1) In determining the value which a fee simple absolute in
possession in any land would have had on 25th February 1963 it
shall be assumed that such a fee simple was offered for sale

(a)in the open market;

(b)with vacant possession;

(c)with the benefit of any restrictive covenant, easement,
quasi-easement, or other right which enured for the benefit of the
fee simple in the land immediately before the passing of this Act;

(d)subject to

(i)any restrictive covenant, easement, quasi-easement, or other right
enuring for the benefit of other land;

(ii)any public right of way or other right enuring for the benefit
of the public or any section thereof; and

<(iii)any restriction imposed by or under any statutory provision;

(d)to which the fee simple in the land was subject immediately
before the passing of this Act; but

(e)free from any other incumbrance, and without regard to any
liability of the land to become subject after the passing of this
Act to any restriction under any statutory provision;

(2) For the purposes of this Part, the value of a fee simple
absolute in possession in any land shall be calculated by reference
to prices current immediately before 26th February 1963.

(3) In computing the restricted and unrestricted values of a fee
simple absolute in possession subject to a mortgage it shall be
assumed that the mortgage has been discharged.

(4) Where at the date of the passing of this Act

(a)planning permission to develop any land has been granted (whether
with or without conditions) in pursuance of an application for
planning permission made before 26th February 1963; but

(b)the development for which the permission was granted has not been
initiated or has not been completed;

(5) Where, at the date of the passing of this Act

(a)a planning decision given in pursuance of an application for
planning permission made before 26th February 1963 refuses planning
permission to carry out any new development in or on any land, or
grants such permission subject to conditions; or

(b)planning permission to carry out any such development (granted in
pursuance of an application for such permission made before 26th
February 1963) has been revoked or modified by an order made under
section 3 of the Act of 1944;

(6) Where by virtue of Part II any compensation becomes payable
under that Part by reference to a date occurring before the passing
of this Act, the foregoing provisions of this section shall have
effect as if for any reference to the passing of this Act there
were substituted a reference to that date.

(7) In computing the restricted and unrestricted values of any land
for the purposes of this Part, rules (2) to (4) of the rules set
out in section 2 of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of
Compensation) Act 1919 shall, so far as applicable, have effect as
they have effect for the purpose of assessing compensation for the
compulsory purchase of land, so, however, that rule (3) of the said
rules shall not have effect in relation to any land which is held
by any person in order that he may develop that land for the
purposes of any trade or business carried on by him on any
adjoining land.

(8) Land shall be taken not to have a development value if the
amount of the excess of the unrestricted value of the land over
the restricted value of the land is less than ten per cent. of
the restricted value of the land.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 4
Land held by public bodies.

4.(1) Where at the date of the passing of this Act

(a)a public body are in the actual possession of any land; and

(b)the body are entitled to a fee simple absolute in possession in
that land or a tenancy therein under which not less than forty
years of the term thereof remain unexpired;

(2) The Ministry may, with the consent of the Ministry of Finance,
make regulations excluding any land specified in the regulations, or
land of a class or description so specified, from the operation of
subsection (1).

(3) In making any regulations under subsection (2), the Ministry
shall have regard to any representations made to it by any public
body as to the land or class or description of land to be
specified in the regulations.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 5
Applications for ascertainment of development value.

5.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, any of the following
persons, namely:

(a)any person in whom an estate in any land is vested in
possession at the specified date, by virtue of which he

(i)is in the actual possession of the land at that date; and

(ii)is entitled to remain in the actual possession of the land for
a period of not less than five years beginning with that date;

(b)any person in whom an estate in any land is vested in interest
or possession at the specified date by virtue of which he will be
entitled to enter into the actual possession of the land within the
period of forty years beginning with the specified date;

(c)the personal representatives of any deceased person if, at the
specified date, an estate in land to which the deceased person was
entitled is vested in them and, but for his death, the deceased
person would have been entitled to remain in, or to enter into,
the actual possession of the land as mentioned in paragraph (a)(ii)
or (b), as the case may be;

(d)any trustees (other than the personal representatives, as such, of
a deceased person) in whom an estate in any land is vested in
interest or possession at the specified date, if any beneficiary
under the trust is entitled to remain in, or will be entitled to
enter into, the actual possession of the land as mentioned in
paragraph (a)(ii) or (b), as the case may be;

(e)the trustees of a settlement, if at the specified date an estate
in any land is under the settlement vested in the beneficiaries in
interest or possession and one or more of the beneficiaries are
entitled to remain in, or will be entitled to enter into, the
actual possession of the land as mentioned in paragraph (a)(ii) or
(b), as the case may be;

(f)any person who is entitled to any compensation under Part II in
relation to a planning decision given before the specified date;

(2) Where

(a)it is necessary to determine whether any person is, by virtue of
any estate in land, entitled to remain in the actual possession of
the land for a period of not less than five years beginning with
the specified date or whether he will, by virtue of any estate in
land, be entitled to enter into the actual possession of the land
within the period of forty years beginning with that date; and

(b)an event may occur within the said period of five years or
forty years by reason of which he would cease to be entitled to
the actual possession of the land or would become entitled to the
actual possession of the land;

(3) Where it is necessary to determine any such question as is
referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) in relation to any
land in which a tenancy subsists, that question shall,
notwithstanding the provisions of that subsection, be determined on
the basis that the tenant will at all times pay the rent and
perform his other obligations under the tenancy.

(4) Where

(a)an estate in land is the subject of a trust or settlement; and

(b)the trustees of the trust or settlement make a Part I
application in relation to that land;

(5) Where a person

(a)makes a Part I application in relation to any land (in this
section and in section 6 referred to as "the designated land"); and

(b)gives notice of the application in the prescribed form to any
person who is entitled to make a Part I application in relation to
the designated land or any part thereof;

(6) Where two or more Part I applications are made in respect of
contiguous or adjacent areas of land which are held under the same
instrument, the Ministry may direct that those applications shall be
dealt with together and treated as if they were one application in
relation to all the land included in the applications.

(7) Where a person entitled to make a Part I application in
relation to any land makes such an application in respect of part
only of that land, then, notwithstanding anything in this Part or
in any regulations made under section 7, he shall not make a Part
I application in respect of any other land contiguous or adjacent
to that part after the date on which any development value is
determined in relation to that part.

(8) For the purposes of this section an administrator of the estate
of a person who died before the specified date shall be deemed to
be entitled to any estate in land to which the deceased person was
entitled as if there had been no interval of time between the date
of the death of the deceased person and the grant of letters of
administration.

(9) Where any person makes a Part I application, then any person
to whom he conveys an estate in the land may, with the consent in
writing of the first-mentioned person, act in relation to that
application in his place.

(10) Where any dispute arises under this section it shall be
referred to the Lands Tribunal for determination.

(11) In this section "convey" includes lease, and transfer by an
assent, and "the specified date" means the day on which a period
of three months beginning with the passing of this Act expires.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 6
Restrictions on determination of Part I applications.

6.(1) Where a Part I application is made to determine the
development value of any land, that value shall not be determined
until after the expiration of the prescribed period unless every
person who is entitled to make a Part I application in relation to
the designated land or any part thereof either

(a)has made such an application; or

(b)has joined in any Part I application which has been made by
another person.

(2) In this section "the prescribed period" means the period
prescribed by regulations made under section 7 as the period within
which all Part I applications must be made.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 7
Regulations as to Part I applications.

7. The Ministry shall make regulations

(a)prescribing the manner in which, and the period (not being
shorter than one year, nor longer than two years beginning with the
specified date as defined in section 5(11)) within which, Part I
applications must be made;

(b)prescribing the particulars which must accompany such an
application and the evidence required to verify it;

(c)requiring development values to be determined by or on behalf of
the Ministry in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed;

(d)requiring any objection to any development value so determined, or
to any determination that land has not a development value, to be
made to the Ministry within such period as may be prescribed (not
being a period shorter than two months from the date on which the
Ministry gives notice of the determination in question to the person
making the Part I application);

(e)providing for the settlement of any disputes arising in relation
to the determinations referred to in paragraph (c) by the Lands
Tribunal;

(f)requiring any question arising under this Part to be referred to
the Lands Tribunal within such period as may be prescribed;

(g)prescribing the practice and procedure to be followed in
connection with the determination of development values and the
settlement of any such disputes as are mentioned in paragraph (e)
and the time within which and the manner in which proceedings may
be taken in respect of any alleged irregularity in connection
therewith;

(h)rendering the right to have the development value of any land
ascertained conditional upon compliance with the provisions of the
regulations with respect to the making of applications for the
ascertainment of that value.

Interpretation (Part II).

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 8

8.(1) In this Part any reference to the development value of land
is, subject to the following provisions of this Part, a reference
to the value which is determined to be the development value of
the land under Part I.

(2) For the purposes of this Part, land shall be taken to have a
development value if, and only if, either

(a)the land consists of a valued area and of no other land; or

(b)the land consists of part of a valued area and of no other
land.

(3) For the purposes of this Part, the development value of part
of a valued area shall be so much of the amount of the
development value of the land which forms that area as might
reasonably have been attributed to that part if the Ministry had
been required to apportion it between that part and the residue of
the valued area in accordance with sections 1 to 3, but so that
the aggregate of the development values of all the parts of a
valued area shall equal the development value of that area.

Subs.(3A) inserted by 1972 NI 17 art.96 which was rep. by 1973 NI
21 art.72(2) sch.3

(4) In this section ... "valued area" means any land in respect of
which, in pursuance of a Part I application, a development value is
determined to exist.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 9
Reduction or extinguishment of development value following planning
compensation.

9.(1) Where at any time any such compensation as is mentioned in
subsection (2) has been paid or becomes payable, then, for the
purpose of determining whether the land in question or any part
thereof has or had a balance of development value at any subsequent
time

(a)the amount of the compensation shall be deducted from the
development value of that land; and

(b)the development value of that land or that part thereof shall be
treated as having been reduced or extinguished accordingly immediately
before that subsequent time.

(2) The said compensation is either

(a)any compensation under the Act of 1944 in relation to

(i)a planning decision given on an application for planning
permission for new development made after 25th February 1963; or

(ii)a planning decision given after the passing of this Act on an
application for planning permission for new development made before
26th February 1963; or

(b)any compensation under this Part.

(3) Subsection (1) shall have effect subject to the provisions of
this Act relating to the recovery of compensation on subsequent
development.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 10
Reduction or extinguishment of development value on initiation of new
development.

10.(1) Where any land has a development value and any new
development of that land to which this section applies, is or was
initiated, then for the purpose of determining whether that land or
any part thereof has or had a balance of development value at any
subsequent time:

(a)if the development relates or related only to that land the
value (ascertained in accordance with Schedule 3) of that
development; or

(b)if the development relates or related to that land together with
other land, so much of the value (so ascertained) of that
development as is or was attributable to that land;

(2) This section applies to new development other than

(a)development which, when determining the state of the land for the
purposes of section 3, was taken to have been completed at the
date of the passing of this Act;

(b)development initiated in pursuance of a planning decision given
(whether with or without conditions) before the passing of this Act
on an application for planning permission made before 26th February
1963.

(3) Where, under subsection (1), it becomes necessary to determine
whether any land had a balance of development value by reference to
a date occurring before the passing of this Act, for the references
in subsection (2) to the passing of this Act there shall be
substituted references to that date.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 11
Reduction or extinguishment of development value following severance
or injurious affection.

11.(1) Where

(a)at any time after the passing of this Act, any land is acquired
by or sold to a public body; and

(b)compensation is or was payable, or an amount is or was included
in the purchase price, in respect of a compensatable estate in land
other than the acquired land for damage sustained by reason that
the acquired land is or was severed from other land held therewith,
or that any other land (whether held with the acquired land or
not) is or was injuriously affected;

(2) The amount required under subsection (1) to be deducted shall
be the amount, if any, by which the compensation payable, or amount
included in the purchase price as therein mentioned exceeds or
exceeded the compensation which would have been so payable or the
amount which would have been so included, if the extent of the
damage sustained in respect of the other land in question had
fallen to be ascertained on the assumption that planning permission
would not be granted for any new development of that land, but
would be granted for any development thereof other than new
development.

(3) In this section "the acquired land", in relation to an
acquisition or sale, means the land acquired or sold.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 12
Supplementary provisions as to deductions from development value.

12.(1) Where

(a)any land taken as a whole has a development value; and

(b)an act or event occurs or has occurred in relation to part of
that land such that, in accordance with any of the preceding
provisions of this Part, an amount is required to be deducted from
the development value of that part of that land for the purpose of
determining whether that part has or had a balance of development
value at any subsequent time;

(2) Where in accordance with any of the preceding provisions of
this Part an amount is required to be deducted from the development
value of any land, there shall be attributed to the various parts
of that land so much of that amount as might reasonably be
expected to have been attributed thereto if the authority determining
the amount had been required to apportion it between those parts in
accordance with the same principles as applied to its determination.

(3) Where two or more acts or events occur or have occurred in
relation to the same land such that in accordance with any of the
preceding provisions of this Part, an amount is required to be
deducted from the development value of that land or any part
thereof

(a)those provisions shall apply cumulatively; and

(b)the requisite deduction from the development value of that land
or that part shall be made by reference to each of those acts or
events.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 13
Information relating to development value.

13.(1) Subject to subsections (2) to (9), the Ministry shall, on
application being made to it by any person, and may if it thinks
fit without any such application issue a certificate in the
prescribed form with respect to any land

(a)stating whether any of that land has a development value;

(b)if it has, specifying the amount of the development value;

(c)giving a general statement of what was taken to be the state of
the land for the purposes of Part I and specifying any planning
decision which, under section 3(4), affected the development value of
that land.

(2) Any such certificate issued with respect to any land shall
contain additional information with respect to acts or events (being
acts or events of which the Ministry is aware) which are or may
be relevant for the purpose of determining the balance of the
development value of that land under this Part.

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as entitling any
person to the issue of a certificate under this section unless and
until the development value, if any, of any land to which the
application relates has been determined in accordance with Part I.

(4) Where the issue of a certificate under this section with
respect to any land involves a new apportionment, then

(a)except where the certificate is a certificate which the Ministry
proposes to issue without an application in that behalf, the
certificate shall not be issued otherwise than on the application of
a person who is for the time being entitled to an estate in the
land;

(b)before issuing the certificate, the Ministry shall serve a notice
in writing on any person entitled to an estate in land appearing
to it to be an estate which will be substantially affected by the
apportionment

(i)giving particulars of the proposed apportionment; and

(ii)stating that objections or other representations with respect
thereto may be made to the Ministry within the period of thirty
days from the date of the notice; and

(c)the certificate shall not be issued before the end of that
period, and if within that period an objection to the proposed
apportionment has been made by any person to whom notice has been
given under paragraph (b), or by any other person who establishes
that he is entitled to an estate in land which is substantially
affected by the apportionment, and that objection has not been
withdrawn, subsection (5) shall have effect.

(5) Where, by virtue of subsection (4)(c) this subsection has
effect, then

(a)if within a further period of thirty days the person by whom
any such objection was made requires the matter to be referred to
the Lands Tribunal, the matter shall be so referred, and the
certificate shall not be issued until either the Tribunal has
decided the matter or the reference to the Tribunal has been
withdrawn;

(b)the certificate may be issued before the end of that further
period if every such objection has been withdrawn;

(c)the certificate shall be issued at the end of that further
period notwithstanding that every such objection has not been
withdrawn, if a requirement has not been made within that period
under paragraph (a).

(6) Where, on a reference to the Lands Tribunal under this section,
it is shown

(a)that a new apportionment relates partly to the same matters as a
previous apportionment; and

(b)that the new apportionment is consistent with the previous
apportionment in so far as it relates to those matters;

(7) A certificate under this section shall be sufficient proof of
any facts stated therein unless the contrary is shown.

(8) An application for a certificate under this section

(a)shall be made in such form and manner as may be prescribed; and

(b)shall be accompanied by sufficient particulars, including a map if
necessary, to enable the land to be identified, and, where a new
apportionment will be involved

(i)particulars of the nature of the applicant's estate; and

(ii)such information as to the nature of any other estate in the
land, and as to the name and address of the person entitled to
that other estate, as may be known to the applicant.

(9) On any application under subsection (1)

(a)the applicant shall pay in the prescribed manner a fee of [25p];
and

(b)if the application involves a new apportionment the certificate
shall not be issued until the applicant has paid in the prescribed
manner a further fee of [75p].

(10) In this section "new apportionment" means an apportionment which
relates wholly or partly to any matter to which no previous
apportionment related.

Right to compensation arising out of certain planning decisions.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 14

14.(1) Subject to this Part, compensation shall be payable under
this Part in respect of, and only in respect of, a compensatable
estate subsisting in land which is the subject of a planning
decision, given on an application for planning permission made after
25th February 1963, whereby planning permission for the carrying out
of any new development is refused, or is granted subject to
conditions, if at the time of the decision

(a)the land to which the decision relates has a balance of
development value; and

(b)the value of that compensatable estate, or, in the case of a
compensatable estate extending to other land, the value of that
compensatable estate in so far as it subsists in such land as is
referred to in paragraph (a), is depreciated by the decision; and

(c)compensation under the Act of 1944 has not been paid and is not
payable in respect of the planning decision.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to a compensatable
estate to which at the date of the planning decision in question a
public body are entitled unless the compensatable estate subsists in
land specified in regulations made under section 4 or land of a
class or description so specified.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 15
Exclusion of compensation in certain cases.

15.(1) Compensation shall not be payable under this Part in respect
of a compensatable estate subsisting in land which is the subject
of a planning decision whereby permission for the carrying out of
any new development is refused

(a)where the development consists of

(i)a change in the use ofng (including the conversion or adaptation
of any building for the purpose of the proposed development); or

(ii)a change in the use of any land other than buildings, unless
the development consists of the carrying out of any building
operations or the getting of minerals or the stationing of any
caravans on the land;

(b)if the reason or one of the reasons stated for the refusal is
that development of the kind proposed would be premature having
regard to either or both of the following matters, that is to say

(i)the order of priority, if any, for development contained in [a
development plan for the area in which the land is situated];

(ii)any existing deficiency in the provision of water supplies,
sewerage services or roads and the period within which any such
deficiency may reasonably be expected to be made good;

(2) Compensation shall not be payable under this Part in respect of
a compensatable estate subsisting in land which is the subject of a
planning decision whereby permission for the carrying out of any new
development is refused if the reason or one of the reasons stated
for the refusal is that the land is unsuitable for the proposed
development on account of its liability to flooding or subsidence.

(3) Compensation shall not be payable under this Part in respect of
a compensatable estate subsisting in land which is the subject of a
planning decision whereby permission to display any advertisements is
refused or is granted subject to conditions.

(4) Compensation shall not be payable under this Part in respect of
a compensatable estate subsisting in land which is the subject of a
planning decision whereby permission for the carrying out of any new
development is granted subject to conditions relating to

(a)the dimensions, design, structure or external appearance of any
building, or the materials to be used in its construction;

(b)the number of any buildings included in the development or the
disposition of any building so included;

(c)the character or user of any building or other land included in
the development;

(d)the position in which caravans may be stationed on a caravan
site at any one time or the number of caravans which may be so
stationed;

(e)the net annual value of any building included in the development;

(f)the manner in which any land is to be laid out for the
purposes of the development, including the provision of facilities
for the parking, loading, unloading or fuelling of vehicles on the
land;

(g)without prejudice to paragraph (h), the width, position or
arrangement of streets or the materials to be used in the
construction of streets;

(h)the width, position or arrangement of any means of access to a
highway or the materials to be used in the construction of any
such means of access;

(i)the getting of minerals or any operations incidental thereto.

(5) Where a planning decision is given whereby permission to develop
land is granted subject to conditions, compensation shall not be
payable under this Part in respect of a compensatable estate
subsisting in land which is the subject of that decision if any
development permitted by the decision is initiated before the date
on which an appeal is determined under section 2(6) of the Act of
1944 [or Article 23 of the Order of 1972] in respect of that
decision ....

(6) For the purposes of this section, a planning decision whereby
permission for the carrying out of any new development is granted
subject to a condition prohibiting development on a specified part
of that land shall be treated as a decision refusing the permission
with respect to that part of the land.

(7) In this section

"advertisement" means any word, letter, model, sign, placard, board,
notice, device or representation, whether illuminated or not, employed
wholly or partly for the purposes of advertisement, announcement or
direction and includes any hoarding or similar structure which is
used or intended for use for displaying advertisements;

"street" has the same meaning as in the Private Streets Act
(Northern Ireland) 1964.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 16
Exclusion of compensation where permission for alternative development
is available.

16.(1) Compensation shall not be payable under this Part in respect
of a compensatable estate subsisting in land which is the subject
of a planning decision whereby permission for the carrying out of
any new development is refused if, notwithstanding the refusal, there
is available with respect to that land permission for development to
which this subsection applies, but where the permission is available
with respect to part only of the land, this subsection shall have
effect with respect only to that part.

(2) Where a claim for any Part II compensation is made in respect
of a compensatable estate subsisting in any land, permission for
development to which subsection (1) applies shall, for the purposes
of that subsection, be taken to be available with respect to that
land or a part thereof, if immediately before the Ministry gives
notice of its findings in respect of that claim there is in force
with respect to that land or part, a grant of, or an undertaking
by the Ministry to grant, some such permission, subject to no
conditions other than such as are mentioned in section 15(4).

(3) Subsection (1) applies to any development of a residential,
commercial or industrial character, being development which consists
wholly or mainly of houses, flats, shop or office premises, or
industrial buildings (including warehouses), or any combination
thereof.

Amount of compensation.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 17

17.(1) Where compensation is payable under this Part in respect of
a compensatable estate subsisting in land which is the subject of a
planning decision depreciating the value of that compensatable estate,
the amount of the compensation shall, subject to subsections (2) to
(5), be whichever is the lesser of the following amounts:

(a)the amount by which the value of that compensatable estate (if
it is a compensatable estate subsisting only in land to which this
section applies), or (if it is a compensatable estate extending to
other land) the amount by which the value of the compensatable
estate in so far as it subsists in land to which this section
applies, is depreciated by the decision;

(b)the amount of the balance of development value, immediately before
the decision, of so much of the land in which the compensatable
estate subsists as is land to which this section applies.

(2) Land to which this section applies, in relation to a planning
decision, is land which

(a)constitutes or forms part of the decision area; and

(b)at the time of the decision has a balance of development value.

(3) If in relation to any land to which this section applies

(a)compensation is payable under this Part in respect of two or
more compensatable estates in that land by reason of the same
planning decision; and

(b)the aggregate amount of compensation payable apart from this
subsection in respect of the compensatable estates referred to in
paragraph (a) would exceed the amount mentioned in subsection (1)(b);

(4) Where

(a)at the date of such a planning decision as is mentioned in
section 14(1), a public body are entitled to a compensatable estate
in the land constituting or forming part of the decision area; and

(b)by virtue of section 14(2), compensation is not payable in
respect of that compensatable estate;

(5) Where the land constituting the decision area, taken as a
whole, does not satisfy both of the following conditions

(a)that at the time of the decision it has a balance of
development value; and

(b)that every compensatable estate subsisting therein, the value of
which is depreciated by the decision, subsists in the whole of that
land;

(6) Where this subsection applies in relation to a compensatable
estate in land

(a)the depreciation of the value of the compensatable estate by the
planning decision shall first be ascertained with reference to the
whole of the land which constitutes or forms part of the decision
area and is land in which that compensatable estate subsists;

(b)the land referred to in paragraph (a) shall then be treated as
divided into as many parts as may be requisite to ensure that each
such part consists of land which either

(i)satisfies both of the conditions mentioned in subsection (5); or

(ii)is not land which, at the time of the decision, has a balance
of development value;

(c)the depreciation of the value of the compensatable estate,
ascertained in accordance with paragraph (a), shall then be
apportioned between those parts, according to the nature of those
parts and the effect of the planning decision in relation to each
of them;

(7) In this section "the decision area" in relation to a planning
decision means the aggregate of the land to which the decision
relates.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 18
Assessment of depreciation.

18.(1) For the purposes of this Part, the value of a compensatable
estate in land, or of a compensatable estate in so far as it
subsists in particular land, shall be taken to be depreciated by a
planning decision (in this section referred to as "the relevant
decision") if, and to the extent to which, that value, calculated
in accordance with subsections (2) to (5), falls short of what that
value, so calculated, would have been if the relevant decision had
been a decision to the contrary effect.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) to (5), any such value shall for
the purposes of this section be calculated as at the time of the
relevant decision, but

(a)as affected by that decision, by any grant of planning permission
made in relation to the land in question after that decision and
by any [direction under Article 69 of the Order of 1972]; and

(b)on the assumption that, after the relevant decision, and apart
from any such permission or [direction] as is mentioned in paragraph
(a), planning permission would not be granted for any new
development of the land in question but would be granted for any
development thereof other than new development.

(3) If in consequence of another planning decision or of an order
under section 3 of the Act of 1944 [or Article 29 of the Order
of 1972] revoking or modifying any planning permission, being a
decision given or order made

(a)before the relevant decision; and

(b)either in respect of the whole or part of the land to which
the relevant decision relates, or in respect of land which includes
the whole or part of that land;

(4) Where under this section a calculation has to be made as if a
planning decision were a decision to the contrary effect or an
order under section 3 of the Act of 1944 [or Article 29 of the
Order of 1972] had not been made the calculation shall be made on
the footing that any development must comply with the provisions of
any statutory provision (other than the Planning Acts (Northern
Ireland) 1931 and 1944) which would be applicable thereto.

(5) Subsection (3) applies

(a)to any compensation under the Act of 1944;

(b)to any compensation under this Part; and

(c)to so much of any compensation as is payable or was paid under
section 26 in respect of loss or damage consisting of depreciation
of the value of a compensatable estate in land.

(6) In this section and in section 19 "a decision to the contrary
effect" means

(a)in relation to a decision refusing permission, a decision granting
the permission subject to such conditions, if any, of a description
falling within section 15(4) as the person giving the decision might
reasonably have been expected to impose had he not refused the
permission;

(b)in relation to a decision granting the permission subject to
conditions, a decision granting the permission subject only to such
of those conditions, if any, as fall within section 15(4).

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 19
Further provisions as to calculation of depreciation.

19.(1) For the purpose of calculating in accordance with section 18
the value of a compensatable estate subsisting in any relevant land
on the basis that the relevant decision had been a decision to the
contrary effect, the following provisions shall have effect:

(a)where a person entitled to a compensatable estate in the relevant
land is also at the date of a relevant decision entitled to a
compensatable estate in any other land, the value of the
first-mentioned compensatable estate shall be reduced by the amount,
if any, by which the value of the second-mentioned compensatable
estate would be depreciated if any development permitted by a
decision to the contrary effect to the relevant decision were
carried out; and

(b)the value of the compensatable estate in the relevant land shall
be reduced by the amount, if any, of any loss in the nature of
disturbance in respect of the purposes for which the relevant land
was being used at the date of the relevant decision which would
necessarily be involved if any development permitted by a decision
to the contrary effect were carried out.

(2) Where a compensatable estate in any land is vested in any
trustees or in the beneficiaries under a settlement, then the
trustees or beneficiaries shall not, for the purposes of subsection
(1), be taken to be entitled to a compensatable estate in any
other land unless that other land and the relevant land are held
on trust or settled under the same instrument or series of
instruments.

(3) In this section "relevant decision" has the same meaning as in
section 18 and "relevant land" means land to which a relevant
decision relates.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 20
Claims for compensation.

20.(1) Compensation under this Part shall not be payable unless a
claim for it is duly made to the Ministry in accordance with this
section.

(2) A claim for compensation under this Part shall not have effect
unless it is made before the end of the period of six months
beginning with the date of the planning decision to which it
relates or beginning with the passing of this Act, whichever period
last expires, but the Ministry may in any particular case (either
before, on or after the date on which the time for claiming
compensation under this Part would otherwise have expired) allow an
extended, or further extended, period for making such a claim.

(3) Regulations made under this section may

(a)require claims for compensation under this Part to be made in a
form prescribed by the regulations;

(b)require a claimant to provide such evidence and information in
support of the claim and as to the interests of other persons in
the land to which the claim relates (being evidence, information or
interests of which the claimant is aware) as may be so prescribed.

(4) Where a claim is made to the Ministry under subsection (1)

(a)if it appears to the Ministry

(i)that the development to which the planning decision related was
not new development; or

(ii)that at the time of the planning decision no part of the land
to which the claim relates had a balance of development value; or

<(iii)that compensation is excluded by section 15 or 16;

(b)the Ministry shall notify the claimant accordingly, stating on
which of those grounds it appears to the Ministry that compensation
is not payable;

(b)in any other case or if a claimant disputes the Ministry's
findings, the Ministry shall serve notice of the claim on every
other person appearing to it to be entitled to an estate in the
land to which the claim relates and, where the land is the subject
of a settlement, on the trustees of the settlement, if any, if an
estate in the land is not vested in them.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 21
Apportionment of compensation.

21.(1) Where on a claim for compensation which is payable under
this Part in respect of a compensatable estate subsisting in land
which is the subject of a planning decision, the Ministry determines
that compensation exceeding fifty pounds is payable, the Ministry
may, if it appears to it to be practicable to do so, apportion
the amount of compensation between different parts of the land to
which the claim relates.

(2) In making an apportionment under subsection (1) the Ministry
shall divide the land into parts and distribute the compensation
between those parts, according to the manner in which the different
parts of the land appear to the Ministry to be differently affected
by the planning decision in respect of which the claim for
compensation is made.

(3) On a reference to the Lands Tribunal under section 23,
subsections (1) and (2) shall, unless the decision of the Tribunal
will not affect the amount of the compensation or any apportionment
thereof by the Ministry, have effect as if for references to the
Ministry there were substituted references to the Lands Tribunal.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 22
Payment of compensation.

22.(1) Where any compensation (in this Act referred to as "Part II
compensation") is payable under this Part in respect of a
compensatable estate in land (other than a compensatable estate which
at the date of the relevant decision is the subject of a
settlement), the Ministry shall pay that compensation to the person
who was entitled to that estate at the date of the relevant
decision, except that if that person does not make a claim for the
compensation, the Ministry may pay the compensation to any person or
persons (being persons entitled to equitable interests) who as
against the person in whom the compensatable estate is vested are
entitled absolutely to that estate.

(2) Where any Part II compensation is payable in respect of a
compensatable estate in land (being a compensatable estate which at
the date of the relevant decision is the subject of a settlement),
the Ministry shall pay that compensation to the trustees of the
settlement, except that where the trustees do not make a claim for
the compensation, the Ministry may

(a)where the compensatable estate in question is vested in trustees,
pay the compensation to the persons, if any, who as against the
trustees are entitled absolutely to that estate;

(b)where the compensatable estate is not vested in trustees, pay the
compensation to the persons, if any, who as against the trustees of
the settlement are entitled absolutely to the capital moneys of the
settlement.

(3) Where under subsection (1) or (2) the Ministry is required to
pay any Part II compensation to any trustees, the Ministry may, if
there is only one trustee or the others cannot be found (or being
corporations have been dissolved), pay the compensation to one
trustee of a trust or settlement, notwithstanding anything in any
enactment or any instrument.

(4) Where the amount of any Part II compensation which is payable
in respect of a compensatable estate does not exceed fifty pounds,
the Ministry may, without prejudice to subsections (1) and (2), pay
the compensation to any person who at the date of the relevant
decision was entitled to the rents and profits of the compensatable
estate in respect of which the compensation was payable or, where
he is under a disability, to his guardian or committee.

(5) Where the Ministry is unable to determine to whom any Part II
compensation is payable under this section, the Ministry may

(a)where the amount of the compensation does not exceed [#6,000],
pay the money into the county court, and that court may exercise
all the jurisdiction exercisable by the High Court under the Lands
Clauses Acts in relation to the compensation;

(b)where the amount of the compensation exceeds [#6,000], pay the
money into the High Court, and that Court may deal with the
compensation under the Lands Clauses Acts as if the compensation
were purchase money under those Acts coming to persons having
limited interests.

(6) Where the Ministry pays any Part II compensation to any person
under this section or into court under subsection (5), the liability
of the Ministry to pay the compensation shall, to the extent of
the payment, be discharged.

(7) Subsections (1) to (6) shall have effect subject to section 32.

(8) In this section "relevant decision" has the same meaning as in
section 18.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 23
Determination of claims.

23.(1) Provision shall be made by regulations under this section

(a)for requiring claims for compensation under this Part to be
determined by the Ministry in such manner as may be prescribed;

(b)for regulating the practice and procedure to be followed in
connection with the determination of such claims;

(c)for requiring the Ministry, on determining any such claim to give
notice of its findings to the claimant, and to every other person,
if any, who has made a claim for compensation under this Part in
respect of the same planning decision, and, if the Ministry's
findings include an apportionment, to give particulars of the
apportionment to any other person entitled to an estate in land
appearing to the Ministry to be an estate substantially affected by
the apportionment.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), provision shall be made by
regulations under this section

(a)for enabling the claimant or any other person to whom notice of
the Ministry's findings has been given in accordance with subsection
(1), if he wishes to dispute the findings, and any other person to
whom particulars of an apportionment included in those findings have
been so given, or who establishes that he is entitled to an estate
in land which is substantially affected by such an apportionment, if
he wishes to dispute the apportionment, to require the findings or,
as the case may be, the apportionment to be referred to the Lands
Tribunal;

(b)for enabling the claimant and every other person to whom notice
of any findings or apportionment has been given as mentioned in
paragraph (a) to be heard by the Lands Tribunal on any reference
under this section of those findings or of that apportionment, as
the case may be; and

(c)for requiring the Lands Tribunal, on any such reference, either
to confirm or to vary the Ministry's findings or the apportionment,
as the case may be, and to notify the parties of the decision of
the Lands Tribunal.

(3) Where on a reference to the Lands Tribunal under this section
it is shown that an apportionment

(a)relates wholly or partly to the same matters as a previous
apportionment; and

(b)is consistent with that previous apportionment in so far as it
relates to those matters;

(4) Any reference in this section to any findings of the Ministry
includes a reference to any decision of the Ministry as to the
person to whom any compensation under this Part is payable.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 24
Recovery of compensation on subsequent development.

24.(1) Where compensation exceeding fifty pounds becomes payable under
this Part in respect of a compensatable estate subsisting in land
which is the subject of a planning decision

(a)the Ministry shall serve on any person making a claim in
relation to the compensation and on the planning authority to whom
the application for planning permission was made a notice in the
prescribed form containing particulars of the payment and, if an
apportionment has been made under section 21, of that apportionment;

(b)the following condition shall be observed with respect to the
relevant land and to every part of that land, namely, no relevant
development shall be initiated thereon or therein until such amount,
if any, of the compensation as is repayable under this section has
been paid to or secured to the Ministry under this section.

(2) The condition specified in subsection (1) and any notice served
under that subsection shall be included amongst the matters which
are required to be registered in the Statutory Charges Register ....

(3) Where any relevant development is to be carried out on any
relevant land, the amount repayable under this section in respect of
the compensation

(a)if the land on which the relevant development is to be carried
out (in this section referred to as "the development area") is
identical with or includes (with other land) the whole of the
relevant land, shall be the amount of that compensation;

(b)if the development area forms part of the relevant land, or
includes part of that land together with other land, shall be so
much of the compensation as is attributable to the development area
in accordance with subsection (4).

(4) In subsection (3)(b) the reference to so much of the
compensation as is attributable to the development area is a
reference

(a)where the compensation is not apportioned under section 21, to
the amount of the compensation distributed rateably according to area
over the relevant land;

(b)where the compensation is so apportioned, to the amount of the
compensation distributed in accordance with the apportionment between
the different parts of the land by reference to which the
apportionment is made, and so much of the compensation as, in
accordance with the apportionment, is attributed to a part of the
land shall be treated as distributed rateably according to area over
that part.

(5) If any person initiates any relevant development on any relevant
land without complying with the condition attached to that land by
virtue of subsection (1)(b), the Ministry may serve a notice on him

(a)specifying the amount appearing to it to be the amount repayable
under this section in respect of the compensation in question; and

(b)requiring him to pay that amount within such period, not being
less than three months after the service of the notice, as may be
specified in the notice.

(6) Where the Ministry is satisfied having regard to the probable
value of any proper development of any relevant land, that such
development is unlikely to be carried out unless the condition
attached thereto by virtue of subsection (1)(b) is modified, it may
in relation to any particular development remit the whole or part
of any amount otherwise repayable to it under this section.

(7) Where, in connection with the development of any land, an
amount becomes repayable under this section, then, except where, and
to the extent that, payment of that amount has been remitted under
subsection (6), no amount shall be repayable under this section in
respect of that compensation, in so far as it is attributable to
that land, in connection with any subsequent development thereof.

(8) No amount shall become repayable under this section in respect
of any compensation by reference to which a sum has become
recoverable by the Ministry under section 38.

(9) Where any of the following events occurs in relation to any
relevant land, or any part thereof, that is to say

(a)an amount repayable under this section is repaid to the Ministry
or secured to the Ministry under this section; or

(b)an amount repayable under this section is remitted in part under
subsection (6); or

(c)an amount which, but for subsection (8), would otherwise be
repayable under this section becomes recoverable by the Ministry
under section 38;

(10) An amount repayable under this section shall be paid as a
single capital payment, without interest, except that where the
person seeking to initiate the relevant development makes
representations to the Ministry in that behalf, the Ministry may
direct that the amount shall be paid

(a)as a single capital payment, with interest, at such time as the
Ministry may direct; or

(b)as a series of instalments of capital and interest combined, or
as a series of other annual or periodical payments, of such
amounts, and payable at such times, as the Ministry may direct.

(11) An amount repayable under this section

(a)shall be payable to the Ministry;

(b)shall be recoverable by the Ministry as a civil debt; and

(c)shall, unless it is payable as a single capital payment without
interest, be secured by the person by whom the development is to
be carried out in such a manner (whether by mortgage, charge, bond
or otherwise) as the Ministry may direct.

(12) Where any person makes default in paying an amount repayable
under this section as a single capital payment without interest, the
Ministry may recover that amount, together with interest thereon at
such rate as may for the time being be prescribed by an order
under section 14 of the Administrative and Financial Provisions Act
(Northern Ireland) 1956, as a civil debt due to the Ministry.

(13) Any interest payable by virtue of subsection (10) shall be at
such rate as is prescribed by an order under section 14 of the
Administrative and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 1956.

(14) In this section

"proper development" means any development which the Ministry, ...
considers to be desirable for securing the most appropriate planning
of the area in question;

"relevant development" means, subject to subsections (15) and (16),
any new development

(a)which is development of a residential, commercial or industrial
character and consists wholly or mainly of the construction of
houses, flats, shop or office premises, or industrial buildings
(including warehouses), or any combination thereof; or

(b)which, having regard to the probable value of the development,
the Ministry determines should constitute relevant development for the
purposes of this section;

"relevant land" means any land in respect of which a notice has
been served under subsection (1); and

(15) The Ministry shall not have power to make a determination
under paragraph (b) of the definition of relevant development in
relation to any development if, on an application made to the
Ministry for the purpose, the Ministry has certified that, having
regard to the probable value of the development, it is not
reasonable that the development should constitute relevant development
for the purposes of this section.

(16) Where any person is aggrieved by the refusal of the Ministry
to issue a certificate under subsection (15), he may apply to the
Lands Tribunal for a certificate for the purposes of that
subsection, and any certificate issued by that Tribunal shall have
the like effect as a certificate of the Ministry under that
subsection.

(17) Where any such compensation as is referred to in subsection
(1) became payable in respect of the imposition of conditions on
the granting of planning permission to develop any land, "relevant
development" does not include the development for which that
permission was granted.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 25
Compensation where planning permission is revoked or modified.

25.(1) Where an amount has become repayable under section 24 in
respect of any compensation paid under this Part, subsection (2)
shall have effect for the purpose of determining any question as to
the balance of development value of any land at any subsequent
time.

(2) Except where, and to the extent that, payment of the amount
mentioned in subsection (1) has been remitted under section 24(6),
so much, if any, of the compensation paid under this Part as is
attributable to the land in question shall, for the purpose
mentioned in subsection (1), be treated as not having become
payable, and accordingly (notwithstanding anything in section 9) shall
not be deducted from the balance of development value of that land.

Registration and apportionment of compensation for depreciation.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 26

26.(1) Where any planning permission is revoked or modified by an
order under section 3 of the Act of 1944 [or Article 29 of the
Order of 1972] then, if on a claim duly made to the Ministry in
accordance with this section, it is shown that a person interested
in the land to which the permission related

(a)has incurred expenditure in carrying out work which is rendered
abortive by the revocation or modification; or

(b)has otherwise sustained loss or damage which is directly
attributable to the revocation or modification;

(2) For the purposes of this section, any expenditure incurred in
the preparation of plans for the purposes of any work, or upon
other similar matters preparatory thereto, shall be taken to be
included in the expenditure incurred in carrying out that work.

(3) Subject to subsection (2), compensation shall not be paid under
this section in respect of

(a)any work carried out before the grant of the permission which is
revoked or modified; or

(b)any other loss or damage (not being loss or damage consisting of
depreciation of the value of a compensatable estate in any land)
arising out of anything done or omitted to be done before the
grant of that permission.

(4) Where an order under section 3 of the Act of 1944 [or Article
29 of the Order of 1972] revokes or modifies any planning
permission granted for the carrying out of any new development, then
in calculating, for the purposes of this section, the amount of any
loss or damage consisting of depreciation of the value of a
compensatable estate in any land, it shall be assumed that planning
permission would not be granted for any new development of the land
but would be granted for any development other than new development.

(5) Where an order under section 3 of the Act of 1944 [or Article
29 of the Order of 1972] revokes or modifies any planning
permission granted for the carrying out of any development other
than new development, the amount of compensation for depreciation
payable under this section shall be the amount of compensation which
would be payable under section 29 if subsections (3) and (7) of
that section were omitted and the order were such a planning
decision as is mentioned in section 29(1) which, in the case of an
order revoking any permission, refused planning permission to carry
out the development in question, or, in the case of an order
modifying any permission, granted planning permission to carry out
the development in question subject to the like conditions as are
specified in the order.

(6) Section 20(2) shall have effect in relation to a claim for
compensation under this section as it has effect in relation to a
claim for compensation under Part II and section 22 shall have
effect in relation to a claim for compensation for depreciation
(within the meaning of section 27) as it has effect in relation to
a claim for compensation under Part II, and in particular those
provisions shall have effect as if for any reference to the date
of a planning decision there were substituted a reference to the
date of an order under section 3 of the Act of 1944 [or Article
29 of the Order of 1972] made after 25th February 1963.

(7) The Ministry may make regulations under this section as to the
manner in which any claims for compensation under this section must
be made.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 27
Application of ss.9 and 25 to compensation under s.26.

27.(1) Where compensation payable under section 26 includes
compensation for depreciation of an amount exceeding fifty pounds,
the Ministry may, if it appears to it to be practicable to do so

(a)apportion the amount of the compensation for depreciation between
different parts of the land to which the claim for that
compensation relates; and

(b)give particulars of any such apportionment to the claimant and to
every other person, if any, entitled to an estate in the land
which appears to the Ministry to be substantially affected by the
apportionment.

(2) In making an apportionment under subsection (1) the Ministry

(a)shall divide the land into parts; and

(b)shall distribute the compensation between those parts, according to
the manner in which the different parts appear to the Ministry to
be differently affected by the order in respect of which the
compensation for depreciation is payable.

(3) Section 23, and any regulations made by virtue thereof, shall
have effect with respect to any apportionment under subsection (1)
as they have effect with respect to an apportionment under section
21.

(4) On a reference to the Lands Tribunal by virtue of subsection
(3), subsections (1) and (2), so far as they relate to the making
of an apportionment, shall apply as if for the references in those
subsections to the Ministry there were substituted references to the
Lands Tribunal.

(5) Section 24 shall, subject to subsection (6), have effect with
respect to compensation for depreciation payable under section 26 as
it has effect with respect to compensation payable under Part II,
with the substitution for references to a planning decision, of
references to the order under section 3 of the Act of 1944 [or
Article 29 of the Order of 1972] in consequence of which the
compensation for depreciation is payable.

(6) Where any compensation for depreciation under section 26
specified in a notice registered under section 24(2) (as applied by
subsection (5)) became payable in respect of an order modifying
planning permission, any development carried out in accordance with
that permission as so modified shall not be deemed to constitute
relevant development within the meaning of section 24.

(7) In this section and section 28 "compensation for depreciation"
means so much of any compensation payable under section 26 as is
payable in respect of loss or damage consisting of depreciation of
the value of a compensatable estate in land attributable to an
order revoking or modifying any planning permission granted for the
carrying out of any new development.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 28
Compensation for planning decisions restricting development other than
new development.

28.(1) Where compensation for depreciation becomes payable under
section 26 in circumstances such that, if the planning permission
revoked or modified by the order had been refused or, as the case
may be, had been granted as so modified at the time when it was
granted, compensation under Part II could have been claimed, and
would have been payable, subsections (2) and (3) shall have effect
in relation to such amount (in this section referred to as "the
appropriate amount") as the Ministry determines to be the amount of
compensation which would have been payable under Part II.

(2) Subsection (1) of section 9 shall apply in relation to the
appropriate amount as it applies in relation to the compensation
specified in subsection (2) of that section.

(3) Where an amount becomes repayable under section 24 as applied
by section 27, section 25 shall apply as if

(a)the reference to compensation paid under Part II were a reference
to compensation for depreciation;

(b)the reference to subsection (6) of section 24 were a reference
to that subsection as applied by section 27;

(c)the reference to the compensation attributable to the land were a
reference to the appropriate amount.

(4) The Ministry may make regulations

(a)for requiring the Ministry to give notice of its intention to
determine that an amount is the appropriate amount to persons
entitled to estates which appear to the Ministry to be likely to
be substantially affected by the determination;

(b)for enabling persons to whom such notice is given to object, on
the grounds that compensation would not have been payable as
mentioned in subsection (1), or that the amount of the compensation
so payable would have been less than the appropriate amount;

(c)for enabling such persons to require the matter in dispute to be
referred to the Lands Tribunal for determination.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 29
Public bodies in relation to compensation under s.26 or s.29.

29.(1) This section shall, subject to subsection (3), have effect in
relation to any planning decision given in pursuance of an
application made after 25th February 1963 whereby permission to carry
out any development of a class specified in Schedule 1 is refused
or is granted subject to conditions.

(2) If on a claim duly made to the Ministry, it is shown that
the value of a compensatable estate in the land which is the
subject of the planning decision in question, is less than it would
have been if the permission had been granted, or had been granted
unconditionally, as the case may be, compensation of an amount equal
to the difference shall be payable under this section unless
compensation under the Act of 1944 has been paid or is payable in
respect of the planning decision in question.

(3) Compensation shall not be payable under this section in relation
to such a planning decision as is mentioned in subsection (1)
whereby permission to use as two or more separate dwelling houses a
building which at a material date (as defined in Schedule 1) was
used as a single dwelling house is refused or granted subject to
conditions unless it appears that the lower value of the
compensatable estate in the land to which the planning decision
relates (as calculated for the purposes of subsection (2)), is not
reasonable having regard to the value of any other comparable
dwelling houses situated in the area in which the building in
question is situated.

(4) Any dispute under subsection (3) as to whether a vendor would
receive a reasonable price for a building in the circumstances
mentioned in that subsection shall be referred to the Lands Tribunal
for determination.

(5) In determining, for the purposes of subsection (2), whether or
to what extent the value of a compensatable estate in land is less
than it would have been if the permission had been granted, or had
been granted unconditionally

(a)it shall be assumed that any subsequent application for the like
planning permission would be determined in the same way; but

(b)if, in the case of a refusal of planning permission, the
Ministry undertook to grant planning permission for some other
development of the land in the event of an application being made
in that behalf, regard shall be had to that undertaking.

(6) Where planning permission to carry out any such development as
is mentioned in subsection (1) is granted subject to conditions for
regulating the design or external appearance of buildings, or the
size or height of buildings, those conditions shall be disregarded
in assessing the compensation, if any, payable under this section.

[(6A) Section 24 shall have effect with respect to compensation
payable under this section as it has effect with respect to
compensation payable under Part II, except that the definition of
"relevant development" shall have effect as if for the words "any
new development" there were substituted the words "any development of
a class specified in Schedule 1".]

Subs.(7)(8) rep. by 1972 NI 17 art.110(2) sch.7

(9) Sections 20(2) and 22 shall have effect for the purposes of a
claim for compensation under this section as they have effect for
the purposes of a claim under Part II.

(10) The Ministry may make regulations under this section as to the
manner in which any claims for compensation under this section must
be made.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 30
Reference of disputes under Part III to the Lands Tribunal.

30. Where a public body are entitled to a compensatable estate in
any land, compensation under section 26 shall not be payable to
that body in respect of an order under section 3 of the Act of
1944 [or Article 29 of the Order of 1972] whereby any planning
permission is revoked or modified, and compensation under section 29
shall not be payable to a public body in respect of any such
planning decision as is mentioned in section 29(1) unless the order
or the decision, as the case may be, is in respect of any land
specified in any regulations under section 4 or land of a class or
description so specified.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 31
Mortgages, rentcharges and fee farm rents.

31. Any question of disputed compensation under this Part shall be
referred to and determined by the Lands Tribunal.

1943 c.21

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 32

32.(1) Where but for this section any Part II or III compensation
would be payable in respect of a compensatable estate in land which
is mortgaged or subject to a rentcharge or to a fee farm rent, or
which was so mortgaged or subject at a prescribed time, regulations
made under this section may make provision

(a)as to the making of claims for any such compensation;

(b)as to the person to whom such compensation or any part thereof
is to be paid; and

(c)as to the application of any such compensation or any part
thereof.

(2) Where, by virtue of any regulations made under this section,
any Part II or III compensation or any part thereof is to be paid
to the owner of a rentcharge or a fee farm rent, the regulations

(a)may apply all or any of the provisions of section 25 of the
War Damage Act 1943 (rights of rentcharge owners as to war damage
payments) subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be
prescribed;

(b)may provide for disputes arising under the regulations, so far as
they relate to rentcharges or fee farm rents, to be referred to
the Lands Tribunal for determination.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 33
Calculation of value.

33.(1) In calculating the value of a compensatable estate in and
for any of the purposes of Part II or III

(a)subject to subsection (2), rules (2) to (4) of the rules set
out in section 2 of the Act of 1919 shall, so far as applicable
have effect as they have effect for the purpose of assessing
compensation for the compulsory purchase of land; and

(b)if a compensatable estate to be valued is mortagaged, it shall
be treated as if the mortgage had been discharged.

(2) Rule (3) of the rules mentioned in subsection (1)(a) shall not
apply for the purposes of Schedule 3.

(3) Where, for the purposes of any of the provisions of Part II
or III

(a)value falls to be calculated by reference to the duration of a
tenancy; and

(b)by reason of any option or other contractual right with respect
to the determination, renewal or continuance of the tenancy the date
of expiry of the tenancy is not ascertainable with certainty;

Ss.3436 rep. by 1972 NI 17 art.110(2) sch.7

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 37
Application of s.24 to compensation payable otherwise than under Part
II.

37.(1) Section 24 shall have effect in relation to any compensation
to which this section applies in like manner as it has effect in
relation to compensation payable under Part II with the substitution
for the reference in subsection (1)(a) to any person who claims any
part of compensation exceeding fifty pounds which becomes payable
under Part II of a reference to any person who is entitled to an
estate in the land in question, being a person who appears to the
Ministry to be substantially affected by the registration of a
notice under that section as applied by this section.

(2) This section applies to any compensation which has been paid or
is payable under section 6(4) of the Act of 1944 after 25th
February 1963 in relation to the refusal or grant subject to
conditions of planning permission for any new development or the
revocation or modification by an order under section 3 of the Act
of 1944 of planning permission for any new development.

(3) Where section 24 has effect in relation to any compensation to
which this section applies, any person who is entitled to an estate
in any relevant land may, if he has acquired that estate in the
land after the date of the decision or order in respect of which
the compensation in question has been paid or is payable but before
the date of passing of this Act, make an application to the
Ministry claiming

(a)that the consideration which he furnished in order to acquire his
estate or the obligations which he has incurred by virtue of
acquiring the estate, are greater than they might reasonably be
expected to have been if the notice had been registered in the
Statutory Charges Register before the date on which he entered into
the contract to acquire that estate; or

(b)if he has not furnished any consideration in order to acquire
his estate, that any consideration furnished after the date of that
decision or order by any person from whom he derived his estate is
greater than it might reasonably be expected to have been if the
notice had been registered in the Statutory Charges Register before
the date on which the person from whom his estate is derived
entered into the contract to acquire the estate from which the
claimant derives his estate.

(4) Where a person makes an application to the Ministry under
subsection (3), the Ministry shall consider the matters referred to
in the application, and may if it thinks fit either cancel the
notice or serve on him a notice specifying therein such lesser
amount as the Ministry considers to be appropriate in lieu of the
amount specified in the first notice, and section 24 shall, subject
to any necessary modifications, have effect in relation to any
notice served under this subsection as it has effect in relation to
a notice served under that section.

(5) Where any dispute arises under subsection (4) as to the
cancellation or service of a notice, it shall be referred to the
Lands Tribunal for determination.

(6) Where an amount becomes repayable under section 24 as applied
by this section, section 25 shall apply as if

(a)the reference to compensation paid under Part II were a reference
to compensation to which this section applies; and

(b)the reference to subsection (6) of section 24 were a reference
to that subsection as applied by this section.

(7) In this section "relevant land" means any land in respect of
which a notice is served under section 24 as applied by this
section.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 38
Recovery from public bodies of sums paid by way of compensation.

38.(1) Where

(a)a compensatable estate in land is compulsorily acquired by or is
sold to a public body; and

(b)any of the land comprised in the acquisition or sale is land in
respect of which a notice to which this section applies is
registered (whether before or after the completion of the acquisition
or sale) in respect of a planning decision given or order made
before the appropriate date;

(2) This section applies

(a)to notices registered under subsection (2) of section 24; and

(b)to notices registered under that subsection as applied by section
27 or 37.

(3) Where

(a)a compensatable estate in land is compulsorily acquired by or is
sold to a public body; and

(b)any of the land comprised in the acquisition or sale is land in
respect of which compensation has been paid or is payable under
section 29 or section 6(4) of the Act of 1944 in relation to any
planning decision whereby permission to carry out any development of
a class falling within paragraph 1 or 2 of Schedule 1 is refused
or granted subject to conditions;

(i)the amount of the compensation so paid or payable, if the land
comprised in the acquisition or sale includes all the land in
respect of which compensation has been so paid or is so payable;
or

(ii)such lesser amount as the Ministry may determine, if the land
so comprised includes only part of the land in respect of which
compensation has been so paid or is so payable.

(4) The Ministry shall not recover any sum under subsection (1) or
(3) from a department of the Government of Northern Ireland unless
the Ministry of Finance so directs.

(5) Subject to subsection (6), if immediately after the completion
of the acquisition or sale, there is outstanding some compensatable
estate in the land comprised therein to which a person other than
the public body is entitled, the sum referred to in subsection (1)
or (3) shall not accrue due until that compensatable estate either
ceases to exist or becomes vested in that body.

(6) Subsection (5) shall have effect in relation to an acquisition
or sale if, and only if, any such outstanding compensatable estate
as is mentioned in that subsection is such that, having regard to
all the circumstances, the person entitled to it might reasonably
carry out any relevant development on the land in which the
compensatable estate subsists, if he desired to do so.

(7) Where any dispute arises under subsection (6), it shall be
referred to the Lands Tribunal for determination.

(8) In this section "relevant development" has the same meaning as
in section 24 and "appropriate date" means

(a)where a compensatable estate is being vested in a public body by
a vesting order, the date on which the vesting order is made;

(b)where a compensatable estate is being compulsorily acquired by a
public body in pursuance of the service of a notice to treat, the
date on which any such notice was served;

(c)where a compensatable estate is being sold to a public body, the
date of the contract in pursuance of which the compensatable estate
was sold.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 39
Grants in respect of sums recoverable from public bodies.

39. Where

(a)a sum is recoverable from a public body under section 38 by
reference to an acquisition or purchase of a compensatable estate in
land; and

(b)a grant becomes payable in respect of the acquisition or
purchase, or of a subsequent appropriation of the land, to that or
some other public body under any enactment;

Powers of entry.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 40

40.(1) Any person duly authorised in writing by the Ministry may at
any reasonable time enter upon any land for the purpose of
surveying it, or estimating its value, in connection with a claim
for the determination of its development value or for compensation
under this Act.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) to (8), the power conferred by
subsection (1) to survey land shall be construed as including power
to search and bore for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of
the subsoil or the presence of minerals therein.

(3) A person authorised under subsection (1) to enter upon any land

(a)shall, if so required, produce evidence of his authority before
so entering; and

(b)shall not demand admission as of right to any land which is
occupied unless three days' notice of the intended entry has been
given to the occupier.

(4) Any person who wilfully obstructs a person acting in the
exercise of his powers under subsection (1) shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(5) If any person who, in compliance with subsection (1), is
admitted into a factory, workshop or workplace discloses to any
person any information obtained by him therein as to any
manufacturing process or trade secret, he shall, unless the
disclosure is made in the course of performing his duty in
connection with the survey or estimate for which he was authorised
to enter the premises, be liable on summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding three months.

(6) Where any land is damaged in the exercise of a right of entry
conferred under subsection (1), or in the making of any survey for
the purpose of which any such right of entry has been so
conferred, compensation in respect of that damage may be recovered
by any person interested in the land from the Ministry.

(7) Any question of disputed compensation recoverable under subsection
(6) shall be referred to and determined by the Lands Tribunal.

(8) Where, under subsection (1) a person proposes to carry out any
works authorised by virtue of subsection (2), he shall not carry
out those works unless notice of his intention to do so was
included in the notice required by subsection (3)(b).

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 41
Regulations, etc.

41.(1) The Ministry may make regulations for prescribing anything
which, under this Act is authorised or required to be prescribed.

(2) Any regulations made under this Act shall be subject to
negative resolution.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 42
Expenses.

42.(1) Any expenses incurred by the Ministry under this Act shall,
subject to subsection (2), be defrayed either out of moneys provided
by Parliament or, if the Ministry of Finance so directs, by means
of sums charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund.

(2) The aggregate of the sums charged on and issued out of the
Consolidated Fund under subsection (1) shall not, unless and until
Parliament otherwise determines, exceed [four million six hundred
thousand pounds].

(3) The Ministry of Finance may borrow money for the purpose of
providing money for issues out of the Consolidated Fund under
subsection (1).

(4) Any money borrowed under subsection (3) shall be repaid within
any period or periods not exceeding twenty-five years from the date
of borrowing, and provision for such repayment may be made out of
moneys provided by Parliament.

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 43
Interpretation.

43.(1) In this Act

Definition rep. by 1972 NI 17 art.110(2) sch.7

"the Act of 1944" means the Planning (Interim Development) Act
(Northern Ireland) 1944;

"agriculture" includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy
farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as
grazing land, meadow land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and
the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the
farming of land for other agricultural purposes;

"caravan" has the same meaning as in the Caravans Act (Northern
Ireland) 1963;

"caravan site" has the same meaning as in the Caravans Act
(Northern Ireland) 1963;

"clearing", in relation to land, means the removal of buildings or
materials from the land or the levelling of the surface of the
land;

"compensatable estate" means

"erection" in relation to buildings includes extension, alteration and
re-erection;

"estate" means

"land" means any corporeal hereditament, including a building, and
accordingly section 45(1) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland)
1954 shall not apply for the purposes of this Act;

"the Lands Tribunal" means the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland;

["local authority" means a district council;]

"minerals" includes all minerals and substances in or under land of
a kind ordinarily worked for removal by underground or surface
working, except that it does not include turf cut for purposes
other than sale;

"the Ministry" means the Ministry of Development;

"mortgage" includes (without prejudice to subsection (8)) any charge
or lien on any property for securing money or money's worth;

"new development" means development which is not of a class
specified in Schedule 1;

["the Order of 1972" means the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order
1972;]

"Part II compensation" means any compensation payable under Part II;

"Part III compensation" means any compensation payable under section
26 or 29;

Definition rep. by 1972 NI 17 art.110(2) sch.7

"planning decision" means a decision given on an interim development
application [or an application under Part IV of the Order of 1972];

"possession" includes the receipt of rents and profits, or the right
to receive them;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations under this Act;

"public body" means one of the following, that is to say:

"settlement" has the same meaning as in the Settled Land Acts 1882
to 1890 and accordingly section 2(2) of the Settled Land Act 1882
has effect for the purposes of this Act as it has effect for the
purposes of that Act;

"statutory provision" has the same meaning as in the Interpretation
Act (Northern Ireland) 1954;

"tenancy" includes a tenancy created by an agreement for a lease
and a tenancy created under any enactment but does not include

(a)a mortgage term; or

(b)a tenancy for a year (or any shorter term) or from year to
year (or any other periodic tenancy having reference to any period
less than a year); or

(c)a tenancy at will;

"trustee" includes an implied or constructive trustee and a personal
representative;

"trustees of the settlement" means the trustees of a settlement for
the purposes of the Settled Land Acts 1882 to 1890;

"war damage" has the same meaning as in the War Damage Act 1943;

(2) Where under this Act any statutory provision (including any
section or other division of this Act) is applied for any of the
purposes of this Act, that statutory provision shall be construed so
that its application for those purposes is grammatical and effective.

(3) For the purposes of this Act

(a)where a compensatable estate in any land is mortgaged; and

(b)but for this subsection, any person entitled to an equity of
redemption in relation to that compensatable estate would not be
entitled to a compensatable estate in that land;

(4) For the purposes of this Act, where a compensatable estate in
land is vested in any beneficiaries under a settlement, the
interests vested in the beneficiaries shall be taken to constitute
the compensatable estate which would exist if those interests were
vested in one person and constituted one interest; and the
beneficiaries shall, except for the purposes of section 22, be taken
to be entitled to that interest.

(5) Any reference in this Act to a contract is a reference to a
contract in writing, or a contract of which a memorandum or note
thereof in writing has been made and signed by the parties thereto
or by some other person or persons authorised by them in that
behalf, and, in relation to a compensatable estate in land conveyed
or assigned without a preliminary contract, is a reference to the
conveyance or assignment; and any reference to the making of a
contract is a reference to the signing thereof or (if it was not
in writing) to the signing of the memorandum or note thereof.

(6) Where

(a)under any provision of this Act, a document or notice is
required to be served on a person entitled to an estate in any
land; and

(b)it is not practicable, after reasonable inquiry, to ascertain the
name or address of any such person;

(7) Where under any provision of this Act the value of an estate
in any land is required to be assessed on the assumption that
planning permission would be granted for development other than new
development that assumption shall be made on the footing that any
such development must comply with the provisions of any statutory
provision, other than the Planning Acts (Northern Ireland) 1931 and
1944, which would be applicable thereto.

(8) In the application of this Act to registered land in respect
of which a charge for the payment of a principal sum has been
created under section 40 of the Local Registration of Title
(Ireland) Act 1891

(a)any reference to a mortgage shall be construed as a reference to
the charge;

(b)any reference to a mortgagee shall be construed as a reference
to the registered owner of the charge.

S.44 spent. S.45, with Schedule 5, effects repeals

LAND DEVELOPMENT VALUES (COMPENSATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 -
SECT 46
Short title.

46.(1) This Act may be cited as the Land Development Values
(Compensation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1965.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1972 NI 17 art.110(2) sch.7

1.(1) The carrying out of any of the following works, that is to
say

(a)the rebuilding, as often as occasion may require, of any building
which was in existence at the date of the passing of this Act, or
of any building which was in existence before that date but was
destroyed or demolished within the period of five years ending with
that date;

(b)the rebuilding, as often as occasion may require, of any building
erected after the passing of this Act which was in existence at a
material date;

(c)the rebuilding as often as occasion may require of any building
destroyed or demolished by war damage, not being a building existing
at the date of the passing of this Act;

(d)the making good of war damage sustained by any building;

(i)(where the original building is a dwelling house)by more than ten
per cent. or seventeen hundred and fifty cubic feet, whichever is
the greater;

(ii)(where the original building is not a dwelling house)by more
than ten per cent.

(2) Any reference in sub-paragraph (1) to the original building is
a reference to the building which existed at a time before any
rebuilding mentioned in that paragraph was first executed and not to
the building resulting from the execution of any such rebuilding.

2. The use as two or more separate dwelling houses of any building
which at a material date was used as a single dwelling house.

3.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the enlargement, improvement or
other alteration, as often as occasion may require, of any such
building as is mentioned in paragraph 1(1)(a), (b) or (c), or any
building substituted for such a building by the carrying out of any
such operations as are mentioned in that paragraph so long as the
cubic content of the original building is not exceeded or increased
by more than the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(i) or (ii), as
the case may require.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not extend to works involving an
increase in the cubic content of a building erected after the
passing of this Act (including a building resulting from the
carrying out of such works as are described in paragraph 1).

Para.4 rep. by 1972 NI 17 art.110(2) sch.7

5. The getting, on land held or occupied with land used for the
purposes of agriculture, of any minerals reasonably required for the
purposes of that use, including the fertilisation of the land so
used and the maintenance, improvement or alteration of buildings or
works thereon which are occupied or used for those purposes.

6. In the case of a building or other land which, at a material
date, was used for a purpose falling within any general class
specified in any paragraph of Part II of Schedule 2, or which,
being unoccupied on the date of the passing of this Act, was last
used (otherwise than before the day beginning the period of five
years ending with that date) for any such purposes, the use of
that building or land for any other purpose falling within the same
paragraph.

7. In the case of any building or other land which, at a material
date, was in the occupation of a person by whom it was used as
to part only for a particular purpose, the use for that purpose of
any additional part of the building or land not exceeding one-tenth
of the cubic content of the part of the building used for that
purpose on the date of the passing of this Act, or on the day
thereafter when the building began to be so used, or, as the case
may be, one-tenth of the area of the land so used on that day.

8. The deposit of waste materials or refuse in connection with the
working of minerals, on any land comprised in a site which at a
material date was being used for that purpose, so far as may be
reasonably required in connection with the working of those minerals.

9. For the purposes of this Schedule cubic content shall be
ascertained by external measurement.

10. Where, after the passing of this Act

(a)any building or works have been erected or constructed, or any
use of land has been instituted; and

(b)a condition has been imposed under the Act of 1944 [or the
Order of 1972], limiting the period for which the building or works
may be retained, or the use continued;

11. For the purposes of paragraph 3

(a)the erection, on land within the curtilage of any such building
as is mentioned in that paragraph, of an additional building to be
used in connection with the original building shall be treated as
the enlargement of the original building; and

(b)where any two or more buildings comprised in the same curtilage
are used as one unit for the purposes of any institution or
undertaking, the reference in that paragraph to the cubic content of
the original building shall be construed as a reference to the
aggregate cubic content of those buildings.

12.(1) In this Schedule "at a material date" means at either of
the following dates

(a)the date of the passing of this Act; and

(b)(subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)) the date by reference to
which this Schedule falls to be applied to the particular case in
question.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1)(b) shall not apply in relation to any use of
land in respect of which before the date mentioned in that
sub-paragraph, the planning authority have made an order under
section 4(1)(b) of the Act of 1944 prohibiting that use [or an
enforcement notice under Article 42 of the Order of 1972 served
before that date has become or becomes effective].

(3) Sub-paragraph (1)(b) shall not apply in relation to any
buildings or works in respect of which, whether before or after the
date mentioned in that sub-paragraph, the planning authority [or the
Ministry] have become, or become, entitled, under a notice served
under the Schedule to the Act of 1944 [or under the Order of
1972] before that date, to take any action under section 4(1)(a) of
that Act in accordance with that section and that Schedule [or that
Order].

1.(1) In this Schedule

"article" means an article of any description, including a ship or
vessel;

"betting office" means any premises in respect of which there is in
force a bookmaking office licence under the Betting and Lotteries
Act (Northern Ireland) 1957;

"funfair" includes an amusement arcade or pin-table saloon;

"general industrial building" means an industrial building other than
a light industrial building or a special industrial building;

"hotel" has the same meaning as in the Hotel Proprietors Act
(Northern Ireland) 1958;

"industrial building" means a building (other than a building in or
adjacent to and belonging to a quarry or mine and other than a
shop) used for the carrying on of any process for or incidental to
any of the following purposes, that is to say:

(a)the making of any article or part of any article; or

(b)the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing,
packing, canning, adapting for sale, breaking up or demolition of
any article; or

(c)without prejudice to paragraphs (a) and (b), the getting, dressing
or treatment of minerals;

"light industrial building" means an industrial building (not being a
special industrial building) in which the machinery installed or the
processes carried on are such as could be installed or carried on
in any residential area without detriment to the amenity of that
area by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash,
dust or grit;

"motor vehicle" has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic
[(Northern Ireland) Order 1981];

"office" includes a bank, but does not include a betting office or
post office;

"shop" means a building used for the carrying on of any retail
trade or retail business wherein the primary purpose is the selling
of goods by retail, and includes a building used for the purposes
of a hairdresser or undertaker or for the reception of goods to be
washed, cleaned, or repaired, or for any other purpose appropriate
to a shopping area, but does not include a building used as a
funfair, garage, petrol filling station, office, betting office, or
hotel or premises (other than a restaurant) licensed for the sale
of intoxicating liquor for sale on the premises;

"special industrial building" means an industrial building used for
one or more of the purposes specified in paragraphs 5 to 9 of
Part II.

(2) In this Schedule any reference to a building includes a
reference to land occupied therewith which is used for the same
purposes.

2.(1) Where a group of contiguous or adjacent buildings used as
parts of a single undertaking includes industrial buildings used for
purposes falling within two or more of the classes specified in
paragraphs 3 to 9 of Part II, the particular classes in question
may, in relation to that group of buildings, be treated as a
single class for the purposes of this Schedule if the area occupied
in the group by general or special industrial buildings is not
substantially increased by reason of being so treated.

(2) A use which is ordinarily incidental to and included in any
use specified in Part II is not excluded from that use as an
incident thereto merely because it is also specified in that Part
as a separate use.

1. Use as a shop for any purpose except as

(a)a fish and chip shop;

(b)a shop for the sale of pet animals or birds;

(c)a shop for the sale of pets' meat otherwise than in sealed
containers; or

(d)a shop for the sale of motor vehicles.

2. Use as an office for any purpose.

3. Use as a light industrial building for any purpose.

4. Use as a general industrial building for any purpose.

5.(1) Use for any work which is registrable under the Alkali, &c.
Works Regulation Act 1906, except a process ancillary to the
getting, dressing or treatment of minerals, carried on in or
adjacent to a quarry or mine.

(2) Use for any of the following processes, except as mentioned in
sub-paragraph (1), so far as not registrable under the Act referred
to in that sub-paragraph:

(a)converting, re-heating, annealing, hardening, melting, carburising,
forging or casting of iron or other metals or alloys;

(b)recovering of metal from scrap or drosses or ashes;

(c)galvanising;

(d)pickling or treatment of metal in acid; or

(e)chromium plating.

6. Use for any of the following processes so far as not included
in paragraph 5 and except a process ancillary to the getting,
dressing or treatment of minerals, carried on in or adjacent to a
quarry or mine:

(a)burning of building bricks;

(b)lime or dolomite burning;

(c)production of calcium carbide;

(d)foaming, crushing or screening of stone or slag.

7. Use, so far as not included in paragraph 5, for the production
or employment of cyanogen or its compounds.

8. Use for any of the following purposes, so far as not included
in paragraph 5:

9. Use for carrying on any of following industries, businesses or
trades so far as not included in paragraph 5:

10. Use as a wholesale warehouse or repository for any purpose.

11. Use as a boarding or guest house, a residential club, or a
hotel providing sleeping accommodation.

12. Use as a residential or boarding school or a residential
college.

13. Use as a building for public worship or religious instruction
or for the social or recreational activities of the religious body
using the building.

14. Use as a home or institution providing for the boarding, care
and maintenance of children, old people or persons under disability,
a convalescent home, a nursing home, a sanatorium or a hospital.

15. Use (other than residentially) as a health centre, a school
treatment centre, a clinic, a creche, a day nursery or a
dispensary, or use as a consulting room or surgery unattached to
the residence of the consultant or practitioner.

16. Use as an art gallery (other than for business purposes), a
museum, a public library or reading room, a public hall, a concert
hall, an exhibition hall, a social centre, a community centre or a
non-residential club.

17. Use as a theatre, a cinema, a music hall, a dance hall, a
skating rink, a swimming bath, a Turkish or other vapour or foam
bath or a gymnasium, or for indoor games.

1. Where for the purposes of section 10 the value of any
development has to be ascertained, that value shall, subject to
paragraphs 2 and 3, be calculated by reference to prices current at
the time the development was initiated and

(a)as if any new development to which section 10 applies had not
been carried out and the land had remained in the same state as
it was in immediately before that development was initiated; and

(b)on the assumption that (apart from the Planning Acts (Northern
Ireland) 1931 and 1944) the development could at that time be
carried out lawfully;

(i)the value which in those circumstances the land would have had
if planning permission for that development had been granted
unconditionally; and

(ii)the value which in those circumstances the land would have had
if planning permission for that development had been applied for and
refused, and it could be assumed that planning permission for that
development, and any other new development of that land, would be
refused on any subsequent application.

2. If the development involved the clearing of any land, the
reference in paragraph 1(a) to the state of the land shall be
construed as a reference to the land in the same state as it was
immediately after the clearing thereof but before the carrying out
of any other operations.

3. If the development was initiated in pursuance of planning
permission granted subject to conditions, paragraph 1 shall apply as
if the reference to the granting of permission unconditionally were
a reference to the granting of permission subject to the like
conditions.

Schedule 4 spent. Schedule 5 Part I rep. by SLR 1973; Part
IIRepeals


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