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Title and introductory text
Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947
1947 c.53
An Act to make fresh provision with respect to Scotland for planning the development and use of land, for the grant of permission to develop land and for other powers of control over the use of land; to confer on public authorities additional powers in respect of the acquisition and development of land for planning and other purposes, and to amend the law relating to compensation in respect of the compulsory acquisition of land; to provide for payments out of central funds in respect of depreciation occasioned by planning restrictions; to secure the recovery for the benefit of the community of development charges in respect of certain new development; to provide for the payment of grants out of central funds in respect of expenses of local planning authorities in connection with the matters aforesaid; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[13th August 1947]
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(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the enactments specified in the first column of the Eighth Schedule to this Act shall have effect, on and after the appointed day, subject to the amendments specified in the second column of that Schedule, being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.
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“land” includes land covered with water and any building as defined by this section, and, in relation to the acquisition of land under Part III of this Act, includes any interest or right in or over land;
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“local authority” means a county council, town council or district council, or any other authority within the meaning of the Local Authorities Loans (Scotland) Act, 1891, and includes any joint board or joint committee of which all the constituent authorities are such local authorities as aforesaid;regional, islands or district council
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(5) References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment including, except where the context otherwise requires, this Act.
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(1) This Act may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947.
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(3) This Act shall extend to Scotland only.
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The Camps Act, 1939. | In section two, in subsection (1) the words “by means of a compulsory purchase order made by the company and confirmed” shall be omitted.
In section seven, for paragraphs (b) and (c) there shall be substituted the following paragraph— (b) section two of this Act shall have effect as if for subsections (2) and (3) thereof the following subsection were substituted:— (2) The Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure)(Scotland) Act, 1947, shall have effect as if any reference therein to a local authority (except the references thereto in subsection (2) of section one, in section two and in paragraph 9 of the First Schedule) included a reference to a recognised company.
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