Street Works Act 1995 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Public Streets
11. Owners who suffer substantial impairment in rights in land may require their land to be acquired
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The owner of any land temporary possession of which is or has been taken in accordance with section 9 may, by written notice given to the Authority, request the Government to acquire under the Land Acquisition Act 1966 —
owner
“owner”, in relation to any premises, means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises whether on the person’s own account or as agent or trustee for any other person or as receiver or who would receive the rent if the premises were let to a tenant, and includes the person whose name is entered in the Valuation List prepared under section 10 of the Property Tax Act 1960;
the land; and
any other land (if any) of the owner related to the land in paragraph (a),if the owner considers that the owner suffers substantial impairment of the owner’s rights in the lands in paragraphs (a) and (b) because of the taking of that temporary possession.
If there is more than one owner of the land concerned, the notice under this section must be given by all the owners.
Any notice under this section is irrevocable once given to the Authority.
For the purposes of this section and section 11A, land (called A land) is related to other land temporary possession of which is or has been taken in accordance with section 9 (called in this section and section 11A the temporarily occupied land) if the A land is the remainder of a parcel of land part of which is the temporarily occupied land.
In this section and section 11A —
“owner”, in relation to any land, means —
a person who has the fee simple estate in the land;
a person who is the grantee or lessee under a State title for the land;
a person who has become entitled to exercise a power of sale of the land; or
a person in occupation of the land under a tenancy the term of which exceeds 7 years;
“parcel of land” means the whole area of land that —
is the subject of a separate certificate of title registered under the Land Titles Act 1993; or
is a lot in a lawful division of land and capable of being held separately by any owner,and where a single building is erected on 2 or more such adjoining lands or lots mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b), includes the area comprised in those lands or lots, as the case may be.
building
“building” means any permanent or temporary building and includes any structure or erection of whatever kind or nature (whether permanent or temporary) and in particular —(a)a wall (including a retaining wall), partition, gate, fence, paling, platform, staging, post, pillar, shoring, hoarding or frame;(b)a slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage or bridge;(c)a culvert, crossing, bridge, underpass or tunnel; or(d)a sewage treatment plant, sewer, control centre, pump house, substation, drain, swimming pool or tank for the storage of any solid, liquid or gaseous matter;