War Damage (Clearance Payments) Act 1960
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1960 c. 25 |
| Year | 1960 |
War Damage (Clearance Payments) Act, 1960
(8 & 9 Eliz. 2) 25
An Act to valIdate payments made by the War Damage Commission before the passing of this Act in respect of the clearance of war-damaged land, and to make further provision for such payments by the Commission.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Payments for clearance of war-damaged sites.
(1) Direction No. 11 made by the Treasury under subsection (1) of section twenty of the War Damage Act, 1943 (under which it is the duty of the Treasury to give directions for securing that the provisions of Part I of that Act relating to payments for war damage shall be executed in conformity with the public interest), which Direction provided for payments of cost of works in respect of works of clearance of developed hereditaments which had sustained war damage involving total loss, is hereby revoked, but any payment made by the Commission before the passing of this Act, being a payment which the Commission purported to make in consequence of that Direction, shall be deemed to have been duly made.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, where a developed hereditament has sustained war damage involving total loss, the Commission may, subject to any condition which appears to the Commission requisite as to adjusting the amount of any value payment in respect of the hereditament, make, in respect of the carrying out on the hereditament (whether before or after the passing of this Act) of any work to which this subsection applies, a payment to the person by whom the cost of carrying out the work is incurred of an amount equal to the proper cost of the work.
(3) The foregoing subsection applies to work for clearing from the hereditament the remains of buildings or works, except that it does not apply to work for clearing—
(a ) remains of such a nature and in such a condition that in the opinion of the Commission they could (whether or not the hereditament has been or is to be reinstated) reasonably have been used in reinstating it in the form in which it existed before the occurrence of the war damage; or
(b ) other remains, where—
(i) the hereditament has been reinstated or redeveloped, or the Commission are satisfied that a particular project for...
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