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LAND ACQUISITION AND COMPENSATION (NORTHERN

51.(1) If the acquiring authority do not within the period of two months
beginning with the date of service of a notice under Article 50 agree in
writing to accept the notice as valid, the claimant or the authority may,
within two months after the end of that period, refer it to the Lands
Tribunal; and on any such reference the Tribunal shall determine whether the
claim in the notice is justified and declare the notice valid or invalid.

(2) Where a notice is accepted as, or declared to be, valid under paragraph
(1) the acquiring authority shall be deemed

(a)to be authorised to acquire compulsorily, under the statutory provision by
virtue of which they are empowered to acquire the land in respect of which the
vesting order relates, the claimant's interest in the land to which the
requirement in the notice relates; and

(b)at the end of six weeks beginning with the date as mentioned in paragraph
(3), to have entered into a contract to purchase the claimant's interest in
that land on the date on which the vesting order becomes operative.

(3) A claimant may withdraw a notice at any time before the compensation
payable in respect of a compulsory acquisition in pursuance of the notice has
been agreed between the parties or determined by the Lands Tribunal or at any
time before the end of six weeks beginning with the date on which the
compensation is so agreed or determined; and where a notice is withdrawn by
virtue of this paragraph any contract deemed to have been made in consequence
thereof shall be deemed not to have been made.

(4) The compensation payable in respect of the acquisition of an interest in
land in pursuance of a notice served under Article 50 shall be assessed on the
assumptions mentioned in Article 8(2), (3) and (4) as if the claimant's
interest in the land to which such notice relates was compulsorily acquired.

(5) Where by virtue of this Article the acquiring authority become, or will
become, entitled to a lease of any land but not to the interest of the lessor

(a)the authority shall offer to surrender the lease to the lessor on such
terms as the authority consider reasonable;

(b)the question of what terms are reasonable may be referred to the Lands
Tribunal by the authority or the lessor and, if at the expiration of three
months after the date of the offer mentioned in paragraph (a), the authority
and the lessor have not agreed on that question and that question has not been
referred to the Tribunal by the lessor, it shall be so referred by the
authority;

(c)if that question is referred to the Tribunal, the lessor shall be deemed to
have accepted the surrender of the lease at the expiration of one month after
the date of the determination of the Tribunal or on such other date as the
Tribunal may direct and to have agreed with the authority on the terms of
surrender which the Tribunal has held to be reasonable;

(6) Where the lessor refuses to accept any sum payable to him by virtue of
paragraph (5), or refuses or fails to make out his title to the satisfaction
of the acquiring authority, the authority may pay into court any sum payable
to the lessor by virtue of that paragraph; and paragraph 17 of Schedule 6 to
the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 shall apply to that sum with
the necessary modifications.

(7) Where an acquiring authority who become entitled to the lease of any land
as mentioned in paragraph (5) are a body incorporated by or under any
statutory provision the corporate powers of the authority shall, if they would
not otherwise do so, include power to farm that land.

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