Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 1706
ACQUISITION OF LAND, ENGLAND
COMPENSATION, ENGLAND
The Home Loss Payments (England) Regulations 2003
Made
8th July 2003
Laid before Parliament
11th July 2003
Coming into force
1st September 2003
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 30(5) of the Land Compensation Act 1973( 1 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Home Loss Payments (England) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st September 2003.
Application
2. These Regulations apply in relation to England only.
Increase of prescribed amounts
3. —(1) For the purposes of section 30(1) of the Land Compensation Act 1973 (amount of home loss payment in England and Wales)—
(a) the prescribed maximum amount of home loss payment shall be £31,000; and
(b) the prescribed minimum amount of home loss payment shall be £3,100.
(2) For the purposes of section 30(2) of the Land Compensation Act 1973 the prescribed amount of home loss payment shall be £3,100.
(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply in cases where the date of displacement occurs before the date on which these Regulations come into force.
Signed by authority of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Keith Hill
Minister of State,
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
8th July 2003
1973 c. 26 ; section 30 was substituted by section 68(3) of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 c. 34 , from 25 September 1991 (S.I. 1991/2067 ). The functions of the Secretary of State under section 30(5) were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672 ), article 2; see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Land Compensation Act 1973.