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INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 14

Short title.

14. This Act may be cited as the Industries Development Act (Northern Ireland)
1966.

1. References to the Ministry or to the authority shall be construed as
references to the Ministry within the meaning of this Act.

2. References to the said Schedule 5 shall be construed as references to that
Schedule as modified by this Schedule.

3. The expressions "land" and "estate" shall have the meanings respectively
assigned to them by section 45(1)(a) and (2) of the Interpretation Act
(Northern Ireland) 1954.

4. Paragraph 1 shall be omitted.

5. For paragraph 2, there shall be substituted the following

"2.(1) The Ministry, where it proposes to acquire land compulsorily for the
purpose of any of its functions under the Industries Development Act (Northern
Ireland) 1966, shall give public notice of its intention so to do.

(2) Any such notice as aforesaid

(a) shall state clearly the nature of the proposal and shall specify the land
to which the proposal relates;

(b)shall state the time (not being less than twenty-one days from the last
publication of the notice) within which objections to such proposal may be
presented to the Ministry; and

(c)shall be published in two successive weeks in one or more than one
newspaper circulating in the locality in which such land is situate;

(i)where the notice is served on the Ministry of Finance in respect of land
subject to an annuity under the Land Purchase Acts, a recently certified copy
of the relevant Land Registry map showing in distinct colour the land to which
it relates; or

(ii)where the notice is served on any other person, a map or plan sufficient
to enable the person so served to identify the land concerned."

6. In paragraph 3

(a)in sub-paragraph (1), the words ", where the authority is a local
authority," shall be omitted; and, for the words "(if it appears to the
Ministry necessary so to do)", there shall be substituted the words "(unless
no objections have been received, or any objections received have been met or
withdrawn or relate solely to the amount of compensation, or are objections
which the Ministry is satisfied are solely of a frivolous or vexatious
nature)"; and

(b)in sub-paragraph (2), the words from ", and, in particular" to the end
thereof shall be omitted.

7. In paragraph 4

(a)in sub-paragraph (b), the two references to the said Act of 1948 shall be
construed as references to this Act; and

(b)for sub-paragraph (d), there shall be substituted the following

"(d)as soon as may be after a vesting order has become operative, the Ministry
shall serve on every person appearing to it to have an interest in the land,
the subject of the vesting order, either a copy of the vesting order or a
notice stating that the vesting order has become operative and naming a place
where a copy of the vesting order and of any map or plan referred to therein
may be seen at all reasonable hours and may be obtained free of charge upon
written request made by or on behalf of any person having an estate or
interest in the land vested thereby.".

8. In paragraph 5

(a)in the first sub-paragraph

(i)for the words "any estate in fee simple in the land to which it relates",
there shall be substituted the words "such estate in, to or over the land to
which it relates as is therein specified"; and

(ii)the words from the beginning of head (a) to the words "is the Ministry,"
in head (b), the words ", as the context requires,", and the words from "or
any other" to the end of the sub-paragraph, shall be omitted; and

(b)in the second sub-paragraph, for the words from "be the date" to the end,
there shall be substituted the words "be either the date on which the vesting
order becomes operative or the date of the lodgment of the vesting order with
the registering authority under the said Act, whichever is the later."

9. In paragraph 10, the words from the beginning of head (a) to the words "is
the Ministry," in head (b) shall be omitted.

Schedule 2 rep. by 1966 c.41 (NI) s.15(2) sch.2 Pt.II; 1980 NI 12 art.39(1)

1. Appointments to the advisory committee established by section 1(1) of the
Industries Development Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 which were in force
immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be
appointments to the advisory committee established by section 1(1) of
this Act.

2. The repeal of the repealed Acts shall not operate so as to prejudice or
affect any right of the Ministry or of any other Government department to
recover moneys advanced, granted or lent under those Acts, or to enforce any
covenant, condition or other provision contained in any instrument executed as
security for, or in connection with, the advance, grant or loan of such
moneys, or otherwise.

3. The repeal of the repealed Acts shall not affect any grant, advance or loan
made (or agreed to be made before the commencement of this Act, but not
implemented or not fully implemented before such commencement) under any of
the repealed Acts, but such grants, advances and loans shall be deemed to have
been made (or agreed to be made) under this Act, and the provisions of
this Act shall, with any necessary modifications, apply thereto as if they had
been made (or agreed to be made) under this Act.

4. All applications for advances, grants and loans under any of the
repealed Acts, which have not been agreed to or which have been refused, shall
be deemed to be applications made under this Act, and the provisions of
this Act shall, with any necessary modifications, apply thereto as if they had
been made under this Act.

5. Notwithstanding the repeal of the repealed Acts, those Acts shall, where
before the commencement of this Act the Ministry has published notice of its
proposals to acquire compulsorily any land or premises pursuant to those Acts,
continue to apply to the acquisition of that land or those premises as if
this Act had not been passed.

6. Any land acquired or taken on lease under any of the repealed Acts shall be
deemed to have been acquired or taken on lease under this Act, and any
reference to any land acquired or taken on lease, or to any premises held,
under this Act shall be construed accordingly.

7. Notwithstanding the repeal of section 26 of the Public Health and Local
Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1962, any
exemption from rates granted before the 1st May 1962 under the enactments
referred to in subsection (1) of that section shall continue to have effect as
if subsection (2) of that section had not been repealed.

8. In this Schedule, "repealed Acts" means the New Industries (Development)
Act (Northern Ireland) 1932 and the Industries Development Acts (Northern
Ireland) 1945 to 1953 as amended from time to time.

Schedule 4 rep. by SLR 1973



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