Acquisition of Land Act 1981

Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c 67) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which concerns English land law and compulsory purchase.

The Act regulates the conditions for granting a "Compulsory Purchase Order".

Compulsory purchase sources

Land Compensation Act 1961 ss 1, 5-9

Director of Buildings v Shun Fung Ltd [1995] UKPC 7

Acquisition of Land Act 1981 ss 2-4, 10-15

Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 s 1 ff

Water Resources Act 1991 s 154

R (Sainsury's Ltd) v Wolverhampton CC [2010] UKSC 20

James v United Kingdom [1986] ECHR 2

Alliance Spring Ltd v First Secretary [2005] EWHC 18 (Admin)

Grape Bay Ltd v Attorney General of Bermuda [1999] UKPC 43

Lucas v South Carolina Coastal Council 505 U.S. 1003 (1992)

Mariner Real Estate Ltd v Nova Scotia (1999) 177 DLR (4th) 696

ECHR Protocol 1, article 1

Matos e Silva, LDA v Portugal [1996] ECHR 37

see Compulsory purchase in England and Wales

Notes

K Gray and SF Gray, Land Law (7th edn 2011) Ch 11
K Gray and S Gray, ‘Private Property and Public Propriety’, in J McLean (ed), Property and the Constitution (Hart 1999) 36-7