Make Provision Regarding the Sale of Green Belt Land; and for Connected Purposes
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Sale of Green Belt Land Bill 1 A BILL TO Make provision regarding the sale of green belt land; and for connected purposes. E 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 BParliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 1 Offence of selling, or marketing for sale, green belt land (1) It shall be an offence to sell, or market for sale, green belt land on the basis that planning permission for new development has been, or can be reasonably expected to be, granted if such permission has not been granted, or it was not reasonable to expect planning permission to be granted at the time the land 5 was sold, or marketed for sale. (2) In subsection (1), a reasonable expectation that planning permission may be granted must be based, either wholly or in part, on information in the local development plan for the area in which the land is situated. (3) A person or company guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable, 10 on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statuary maximum. (4) In this Act— “company” has the meaning given in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 (c. 6); “development” has the meaning given in section 55 of the Town and 15 Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8); “green belt land” shall be construed in accordance with section 87(1)(e) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990; “local development plan” has the meaning given in section 62 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5); and 20 “planning permission” means permission granted under Part III of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. 2 Short title, commencement and extent (1) This Act may be cited as the Sale of Green Belt Land Act 2006. Bill 71 54/1 2 Sale of Green Belt Land Bill (2) This Act comes into force at the end of the period of three months beginning with the day of Royal Assent. (3) This Act extends to England and Wales only. Sale of Green Belt Land Bill A BILL To make provision regarding the sale of green belt land; and for connected purposes. Ordered to be brought in by Greg Mulholland, Norman Lamb, Norman Baker, Dr John Pugh, Andrew Stunell, Dr Vincent Cable, Lorely Burt, Lembit Öpik, Bob Russell, Tim Farron and Philip Davies . Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 1st November 2005. © Parliamentary copyright House of Commons 2006 Applications for reproduction should be made in writing to the Copyright Unit, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, St. Clements House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich, NR3 1BQ PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON — THE STATIONERY OFFICE LIMITED Printed in the United Kingdom by The Stationery Office Limited £x.xx Bill 71 (xxxxxx) 54/1 xxxbarxxx.