HC Deb 15 May 1973 vol 856 cc1437-8

Lords Amendment: No. 12, in page 7, line 19, leave out from "(1)" to end of line 25 and insert The compensation payable on a claim shall be reduced by an amount equal to any increase in the value of—

  1. (a) the claimant's interest in the land in respect of which the claim is made; and
  2. (b) any interest in other land contiguous or adjacent to the land mentioned in paragraph (a) above to which the claimant was entitled in the same capacity on the relevant date,
which is attributable to

Mr. Graham Page

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this amendment we are taking also the following Lords Amendments:

No. 13, in page 7, line 27, at end insert: ( ) Sections 4 and 5 above shall not apply to the assessment, for the purposes of subsection (1) above, of the value of the interest mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection. No. 14, in page 7, line 38, after "acquisition" insert , not being an acquisition of the land in respect of which the claim is made".

Mr. Page

The Bill as it left this House provided that where a claimant is entitled to an interest in land—if I may put it, land next door to the claim land—any increase in the value of that other interest which is attributable to the existence, use of or prospective use of the works, is set off against any compensation which is payable. This set-off for betterment provision did not, however, set off betterment to the land in respect of which the claim is made. The amendment does just that and, I think, puts right an anomaly.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to.

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