7. Time within which the scheme (or any part thereof) is to be carried into 9. Particulars of any measures to be taken to preserve existing erections of achitectural, historic, or artistic interest, and also the natural amenities of the locality : 10. Any other provisions of the scheme (including provisions for joint action with any other Local Authority). 11. Particulars of any variations of the scheme which it is anticipated may subsequently be required. The above scheme was adopted by the Local Authority of.......................... .at a meeting of the Local Authority on..... (Date)... ..1919. (Signed)...... Clerk to the Local Authority, .1919. SCHEDULE OF PARTICULARS TO ACCOMPANY SCHEME, SUBMITTED IN TERMS OF SECTION I. OF THE HOUSING, TOWN PLANNING, &C. (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1919. (c) to rehouse persons who will be dispossessed by Improvement or Reconstruction Schemes under Parts I. and II. of the 1890 Act (d) to meet the normal growth of population (e) to meet demands consequent on the setting up of new industries (ƒ) to meet other demands (specifying same) * Total number of houses required *(This total should agree with that given in Head 1 of the Scheme). 5. (a) Approximate number of empty houses in district (b) Approximate number of empty houses that are uninhabitable and cannot be made fit for occupation (c) State what action (if any) Local Authority propose to take to make the suitable empty houses available for occupation as working-class houses (Signed)...... (Date).... .1919. Clerk to the Local Authority. RATE OF INTEREST ON LOANS. The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury hereby give notice that they have been pleased to direct by their minute of the 30th August, 1919, that the following rates of interest shall be charged as from the 1st September, 1919, on loans from the Local Loans Fund for Housing, viz. :-— Loans in respect of schemes not receiving subsidy under the Housing Act (a) To companies and private persons limiting their profits to 6 per cent. per annum (subject to income tax) Not exceeding thirty years, 51⁄2 per cent 52 per cent. (b) To companies and private persons not so limiting their profits— Not exceeding thirty years, Treasury Not exceeding forty years, Loans in respect of schemes receiving subsidy under the Housing Acts-- Any period, 51⁄2 per cent. Loans to companies and public utility societies limiting their profits to 6 per cent. per annum as defined by the Housing Act, 1919 (subject to income tax) Not exceeding thirty years, Not exceeding forty years, 5 per cent. Provided always that for the present, and as a purely temporary measure until a permanent rate can be fixed-which will be done shortly-there shall be included in the mortgage in respect of any such loans (whether to Local Authorities or public utility societies) a condition that the above rates are provisional only, and may be revised when permanent rates can be fixed, such revised rate to run from the commencement of the loan. Sir, Scottish Board of Health, Edinburgh, 10th October, 1919. HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACTS. COMPULSORY PURCHASE OF LAND I am directed by the Scottish Board of Health to refer to the provisions contained in section 2 of, and the First Schedule to, the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, relating to the compulsory acquisition of land by a Local Authority for the purposes of Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, and to say that it has been deemed desirable to issue an order, prescribing the form of a compulsory order under the said schedule and the manner of publication of the compulsory order. The order, of which copies are enclosed, revokes the order of the Local Government Board for Scotland, dated 20th October, 1911, and has been made principally with the object of shortening the period that must elapse from the date of making the compulsory order till its confirmation by the Board. The order enclosed is self-explanatory, and it is not necessary here further to summarise the terms thereof. &c. In terms of section 11 of the Housing, Town Planning, (Scotland) Act, 1919, the powers of a Local Authority to acquire land for the purposes of Part III. of the Act of 1890 are to be deemed to include power to acquire houses or buildings on the land proposed to be acquired, and any right or interest in any houses which might be made suitable as houses for the working classes together with any lands occupied by such houses. The order will, therefore, be applicable to the compulsory purchase of such Circular No. Compulsory Y houses or buildings and lands and also, in terms of section 60 of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, of land required for the purpose of a town planning scheme. As the Local Authority will be aware, the compensation payable to the owner of the ground will now fall to be determined according to the provisions of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, instead of in terms of the First Schedule to the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909. The Board desire, however, to refer the Local Authority to the terms of section 9 of the Housing, Town Planning, &c. (Scotland), Act, 1919, which provides that where an order authorising a Local Authority to purchase land compulsorily for the purposes of Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, has been confirmed, then, at any time after notice to treat has been served, the Local Authority may, after giving not less than fourteen days' notice to the owner and occupier of the land, enter on and take possession of the land. This provision does not, however, apply in cases where land is acquired compulsorily for the purpose of a town planning scheme. I am, Sir Your obedient Servant, JOHN JEFFREY, The Clerk to the Local Authority. Housing Acts (Compulsory Purchase) (Scotland) Order, 1919. To the Several Local Authorities in Scotland for the purposes of Part And to all others whom it may concern. We, the Scottish Board of Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by the First Schedule to the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, and of all other powers enabling us in that behalf, do by this our order direct and prescribe as follows: Article I.-An order made by a Local Authority under the First Schedule to the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as "the compulsory order "), shall be in the form set forth in the schedule hereto, or in a form substantially to the like effect. Article II. (1) Before submitting the compulsory order to us for confirmation, the Local Authority shall cause the same to be published by advertisement in two successive weeks in one or more of the local newspapers circulating in the district of the Local Authority and in the parish or parishes in which the land to which the compulsory order relates is situated. (2) The advertisements shall be headed respectively "First Advertisement" and "Second and Last Advertisement," and the first of the said advertisements shall be published not later than the seventh day after the making of the compulsory order. (3) Each of the said advertisements shall contain in addition to a copy of the compulsory order a notice setting out the following particulars :— (a) a statement that any objection to the compulsory order must be presented to us within the period of fourteen days from and after the date of the publication of the first advertisement; and (b) a statement of the period, times, and place or places during and at which the deposited plan referred to in the schedule to the compulsory order may be inspected by or on behalf of any person interested in the land to which the compulsory order relates. (4) The plan referred to in the schedule to the compulsory order shall be deposited by the Local Authority not later than the seventh day after the making of the compulsory order at a place convenient for the purposes of inspection, and shall be kept deposited thereat for a period not being less than fourteen days from the date of the publication of the first advertisement; and the said plan shall be open for inspection by any person interested or affected, without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours on any week-day during the said period. The Local Authority shall also make suitable provision for affording to any such person inspecting the said plan any necessary explanation or information in regard thereto. Article III.-(1) The Local Authority shall, not later than the seventh day after the making of the compulsory order, cause notice thereof to be given to every owner, lessee, and occupier of the land to which the compulsory order relates, and every such notice shall include a copy of the compulsory order, to which shall be appended a notice containing the particulars mentioned in subdivision (3) of article II. of this order. (2) The Local Authority shall furnish a copy of the compulsory order, free of charge, to any person interested in the land to which the compulsory order relates, upon his applying for the same. Article IV. The period within which an objection to a compulsory order may be presented to us by a person interested in the land to which the compulsory order relates shall be the period of fourteen days from and after the date of the publication of the first advertisement of the compulsory order. Article V-(1) The Local Authority shall as soon as practicable after the confirmation of the compulsory order cause a copy of the compulsory order as confirmed to be served on every owner, lessee, and occupier of the land to which the compulsory order relates. (2) A copy of the compulsory order as confirmed shall be furnished free of charge by the Local Authority to any person interested in the land authorised to be purchased upon his applying for the same, and a copy of any plan to which reference is made in the compulsory order as confirmed shall also be furnished by the Local Authority to any such person upon his applying for such copy and paying the reasonable cost of preparing the same. Article VI.-Every notice or other document which in pursuance of subdivision (1) of article III. or of subdivision (1) of article V. of this order is required to be given or served by the Local Authority to or on an owner, lessee, or occupier, shall be served (a) by delivery of the same personally to the person required to be served, or, if such person is absent abroad or cannot be found, to his agent; or (b) by leaving the same at the usual or last known place of abode of such person as aforesaid; or (c) by post as a registered letter addressed to the usual or last known place of abode of such person; or (d) in any case to which the three preceding paragraphs are inapplicable, by affixing the notice or other document upon some conspicuous part of the land to which the notice or document relates. (e) in the case of a notice required to be served on a Local Authority or corporate body or company, by delivering the same to their clerk or secretary or leaving the same at his office with some person employed there, or by post as a registered letter addressed to such clerk or secretary at his office. Article VII. The Housing, &c. (Form of Compulsory Purchase Order, &c. (Scotland) Order, 1911, is hereby revoked, without prejudice to anything duly done or any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred thereunder. Article VIII.-This order may be cited as the Housing Acts (Compulsory Purchase) (Scotland) Order, 1919. |