Housing (Amendment) Act, 1956

Amendment of powers to annul or confirm compulsory purchase orders.

18.—(1) Any annulment or confirmation pursuant to paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of Article 4 of the Third Schedule to the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1932 (No. 19 of 1932), as amended by section 42 of the Act of 1948, may be effected either in one stage at one time or in two or more stages at different times.

(2) In a case in which, by virtue of this section, a confirmation to which section 17 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1931 (No. 50 of 1931), relates is effected in two or more stages, that section shall have effect as if—

(a) subsection (2) required publication and service of notice, in relation to each such stage, stating that the order has been confirmed in so far as it related to the land to which that stage related,

(b) subsection (3) applied in relation to each such publication of notice, and

(c) subsection (4) provided that the order shall, as respects the land to which any such stage related, become operative at the expiration of six weeks from the date on which notice relating to that stage is published.

(3) In a case in which, by virtue of this section, a first or second confirmation within the meaning of section 43 of the Act of 1948 is effected in two or more stages, that section shall have effect as if—

(a) subsection (3) or subsection (4) (as may be appropriate) required publication of notice, in relation to each such stage, stating that the order has been confirmed in so far as it related to the land to which that stage related,

(b) subsection (6) provided that the order shall, as respects the land to which any such stage related, become operative at the expiration of three weeks from the date on which notice relating to that stage is published, and

(c) in the case of a second confirmation, subsection (5) applied in relation to each such stage as if that stage were the second confirmation.