Part of Planning and Compulsory Purchase (Re-committed) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 16 October 2003.
Yvette Cooper
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) (Regeneration and Regional Developement)
10:30,
16 October 2003
I beg to move, That the Clause be read a Second time.
New clause 21 inserts new section 14A into the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 to enable a confirming authority to transfer to the acquiring authority the power to decide whether to confirm an unopposed compulsory purchase order. Subsections (2) and (3) of new section 14A limit the circumstances in which that transfer can be made.
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