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SCHEDULE 5 Distance Limits from Public Road for Purposes of Compulsory Acquisition
Section 109.
Part I Table of Limits
Acquisition provision | Distance limit
1. Section 104(1)(a). | 200 metres from the middle of the road.
2. Section 104(2)(a) or (3)(a) or (b). | 200 metres from the middle of the trunk road or the special road, as the case may be or, where the land is required in connection with the improvement, alteration or construction of any other road, from the middle of that other road.
3. Section 105(2) in so far as it relates to works authorised by an order relating to a public road under section 12 of this Act. | 200 metres from the middle of a side-road.
4. Section 105(2) in so far as it relates to works authorised by section 69 or 70 of this Act. | 800 metres from the middle of the road from which new means of access are to be provided.
5. Section 108. | 800 metres from the middle of the trunk road.
Part II Further Provision With Respect to Limits
1 In the entries numbered 2 and 3 in Part I of this Schedule the distance limit specified in column 2 shall, in relation to land required for the provision of new means of access to premises from a public road, have effect with the substitution for the distance there mentioned of a distance of 800 metres from the middle of the road.
2 Where the boundaries of any road will be altered in consequence of an improvement proposed to be made under any enactment in relation to the road then, for the purposes of this Act, the middle of that road shall be the middle of it as proposed to be improved.
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SCHEDULE 5 Distance Limits from Public Road for Purposes of Compulsory Acquisition
Section 109.
Part I Table of Limits
Acquisition provision | Distance limit
1. Section 104(1)(a). | 200 metres from the middle of the road.
2. Section 104(2)(a) or (3)(a) or (b). | 200 metres from the middle of the trunk road or the special road, as the case may be or, where the land is required in connection with the improvement, alteration or construction of any other road, from the middle of that other road.
3. Section 105(2) in so far as it relates to works authorised by an order relating to a public road under section 12 of this Act. | 200 metres from the middle of a side-road.
4. Section 105(2) in so far as it relates to works authorised by section 69 or 70 of this Act. | 800 metres from the middle of the road from which new means of access are to be provided.
5. Section 108. | 800 metres from the middle of the trunk road.
Part II Further Provision With Respect to Limits
1 In the entries numbered 2 and 3 in Part I of this Schedule the distance limit specified in column 2 shall, in relation to land required for the provision of new means of access to premises from a public road, have effect with the substitution for the distance there mentioned of a distance of 800 metres from the middle of the road.
2 Where the boundaries of any road will be altered in consequence of an improvement proposed to be made under any enactment in relation to the road then, for the purposes of this Act, the middle of that road shall be the middle of it as proposed to be improved.
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