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LAND ACQUISITION AND COMPENSATION (NORTHERN



53.(1) If the acquiring authority do not within the period of two months
beginning with the date of service of a notice under Article 52 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) then if before the expiration of twelve months after it has been so
accepted or declared the claimant has given up possession of every part of the
agricultural holding to the acquiring authority

(a)the requirement to give up possession shall be deemed to have extended to
that part of the holding to which it did not relate; and

(b)the claimant shall be deemed to have given up possession of that part in
pursuance of that requirement on the day before the expiration of the year of
the tenancy which is current when the notice is so accepted or declared.

(3) Where the claimant gives up possession of an agricultural holding to the
acquiring authority as aforesaid but the authority have not been empowered to
acquire the landlord's interest in, or in any of, the part of the holding to
which the requirement to give up possession did not relate ("the land not
subject to compulsory acquisition")

(a)neither the claimant nor the authority shall be under any liability to the
landlord by reason of the claimant giving up possession of the land not
subject to compulsory acquisition or the authority taking or being in
possession of it;

(b)immediately after the date on which the authority take possession of the
land not subject to compulsory acquisition they shall give up to the landlord,
and he shall take, possession of that land;

(c)the tenancy shall be treated as terminated on the date on which the
claimant gives up possession of the holding to the acquiring authority or (if
he gives up possession of different parts at different times) gives up
possession as aforesaid of the last part but without prejudice to any rights
or liabilities of the landlord or the claimant which have accrued before that
date;

(d)any rights of the claimant against, or liabilities of the claimant to, the
landlord which arise on or out of the termination of the tenancy by virtue of
sub-paragraph (c) (whether under the contract of tenancy or any statutory
provision or otherwise) shall be rights and liabilities of the authority and
any question as to the payment to be made in respect of any such right or
liability shall be referred to and determined by the Lands Tribunal;

(e)any increase in the value of the land not subject to compulsory acquisition
which is attributable to the landlord's taking possession of it under
sub-paragraph (b) shall be deducted from the compensation payable in respect
of the acquisition of his interest in the remainder of the holding.

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LAND ACQUISITION AND COMPENSATION (NORTHERN