Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 — United Kingdom law | Esheria

Compulsory Purchase Act 1965

This Part sets rules for compulsory purchase: who must be notified, when entry is allowed, how compensation is handled, and what happens if notices expire or possession is taken wrongly.

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Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Instrument
Act or statute
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Language
en
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About this statute

This Part sets rules for compulsory purchase: who must be notified, when entry is allowed, how compensation is handled, and what happens if notices expire or possession is taken wrongly. This provision sets out how parts of the Act and related land-acquisition rules apply, how counter-notices are handled, and when the acquiring authority must seek approvals, pay compensation, or act within deadlines. This segment is a legislative history note listing later amendments, applications, exclusions, restrictions, substitutions, and repeals affecting parts of the Act. This text is a list of later legal instruments that apply, modify, exclude, restrict, insert, or substitute parts of this provision. This segment is an amendment history showing later Acts and orders that inserted, applied, modified, restricted, or excluded parts of the Act.