Land Acquisition Regulations 2019

For the purposes of section 24(7)(b) of the Act, the terms and conditions determined by the Authority must, subject to any order of the Court to the contrary, include terms and conditions that—

prevent improvements affixed to the land or attached to any part of the premises, or any fixtures and fittings, from being removed without the permission of the Authority; and

require the premises to be used in the same manner as the existing use of the premises as at the date of acquisition (but only where that use was a lawful use); and

require the occupier of the land to maintain (at least) the following insurance:

building insurance;

plate glass insurance (commercial tenants);

public liability insurance; and

exclude any warranty of fitness for purpose in relation to the premises; and

provide that statutory rates and taxes are the responsibility of the Authority after the date of possession; and

allow the Authority to review the rent payable no more than once every 12 months; and

require the tenant, at the tenant’s cost, to keep all fixtures and structures on the land in good state and repair; and

allow the Authority to enter the land to carry out any works the

provide that maintenance and repairs, should they be required, are the responsibility of the Authority; and

prevent the tenant from assigning, underletting, or charging or parting with the possession of the land or any part of the land;

without limiting paragraph (b), require the tenant not to do, or to permit or suffer to be done, on the land anything that may be or become a nuisance or annoyance to the Authority or to the occupiers of any neighbouring property.

Nothing in this regulation limits any other terms and conditions that may be determined by the Authority under section 24(6) of the

Nothing in this regulation prevents the Authority from waiving, conditionally or unconditionally, a requirement under a term or condition referred to in this regulation.