Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/69/section/17
Timestamp: 2019-10-15 10:23:45
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17 General provisions as to annual compensation.E+W+S
(1)Where a compulsory rights order comprises the whole or part of a holding to which this section applies, compensation shall be payable F1. . . in respect of that holding—
(a)for the year beginning with the operative date, and
(b)for each subsequent year which begins with an anniversary of that date and falls [F2wholly or partly]within the period of occupation.
[F3(1A)Subject (where different persons have been entitled to the rights for different parts of the year) to any apportionment under section 35(3) of this Act, the liability to pay compensation under this section shall fall on the persons who, for the whole or any part of the year in question, have been entitled to the rights conferred by the order.]
(2)For the purposes of this Part of this Act, where land, immediately before the operative date of a compulsory rights order,—
(a)was occupied as a unit, and
(b)was so occupied wholly or mainly for the purposes of agriculture carried on by way of a trade or business,
the entirety of that land (excluding the coal and any other minerals vested [F4in the Coal Authority or the person entitled to rights conferred by the order]) shall be taken, in relation to that compulsory rights order, to constitute a holding to which this section applies.
(3)[F5Subject to subsection (3A) of this section,]the person entitled to any compensation payable F1. . . for any year by virtue of this section in respect of a holding shall be the person who—
(a)in respect of so much (if any) of the holding as is not comprised in the compulsory rights order, is for the time being entitled to occupy that part of the holding, and
(b)in respect of so much of the holding as is comprised in the order, would be entitled for the time being to occupy it if the order had not been made.
(3C)No person shall be entitled under subsection (3A) of this section to any share of any compensation in respect of any such easement or right as might give rise to an entitlement to compensation under section 31 of this Act.]
F1Words in s. 17(1)(3) repealed (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, ss. 52, 67, Sch. 8 para. 15(1)(a), Sch. 11 Pt. II (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2
F2Words in s. 17(1)(b) inserted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 52, Sch. 8 para. 15(1)(b) (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2
F3S. 17(1A) inserted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 52, Sch. 8 para. 15(2) (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2
F4Words in s. 17(2) substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 52, Sch. 8 para. 15(3) (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2
F5Words in s. 17(3) inserted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 52, Sch. 8 para. 15(4)(a) (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2
F6S. 17(3A)-(3C) inserted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 52, Sch. 8 para. 15(5)(7) (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2