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Compensation for restriction, etc., on user of property.
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61.—(1) Whenever a provision in a planning scheme restricts or controls the purposes for which any particular property may be used or curtails or limits the legal rights and powers exercisable or enjoyed in respect of any particular property by the owner or the occupier thereof and the value of such property is reduced by such restriction, control, curtailment, or limitation, every person having any estate or interest in or right over or in respect of such property shall, save as is otherwise provided by this Act, be entitled, on making an application under this section, to be paid by the responsible authority by way of compensation the amount (if any) by which his estate or interest in or right over or in respect of such property is so reduced in value and, in the case of the occupier of such property, the damage (if any) to his trade, business or profession, occasioned by such restriction, control, curtailment, or limitation.
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