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Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997

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What to do with it
As published

258 Sums recoverable from acquiring authorities reckonable for purposes of grant.

Where— (a) a sum is recoverable from any authority under section 257 by reference to an acquisition or purchase of an interest in land, and (b) a grant became or becomes payable to that or some other authority under an enactment in respect of that acquisition or purchase or of a subsequent appropriation of the land, the power conferred by that enactment to pay the grant shall include, and shall be deemed always to have included, power to pay a grant in respect of that sum as if it had been expenditure incurred by the acquiring authority in connection with the acquisition or purchase.

Your change, as a redline

258 Sums recoverable from acquiring authorities reckonable for purposes of grant.

Where— (a) a sum is recoverable from any authority under section 257 by reference to an acquisition or purchase of an interest in land, and (b) a grant became or becomes payable to that or some other authority under an enactment in respect of that acquisition or purchase or of a subsequent appropriation of the land, the power conferred by that enactment to pay the grant shall include, and shall be deemed always to have included, power to pay a grant in respect of that sum as if it had been expenditure incurred by the acquiring authority in connection with the acquisition or purchase.

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