2Interpretation

2 Interpretation

*[Section 2 Amended by No. 105 of 1971, s. 3 ][Section 2 Amended by No. 24 of 1993, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ][Section 2 Amended by No. 30 of 1995, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ]*In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

commencement of this Act means in respect of lands described in Part II of the Schedule the commencement of the Beauty Point Landslip Act 1971 ;

committee means the Beauty Point Advisory Committee established under this Act;

corporation means the council of the municipal area of West Tamar;

earth movement includes a landslip, a subsidence, and any movement of the subsoil of the ground;

improvements means, in relation to any land, all work done or material used thereon by the expenditure of capital on or for the benefit of the land, but so far only as –

(a) the effect of the work done or material used is to increase the value of the land; and

(b) the benefit thereof is unexhausted at the material time –

but does not include work done or material used on or for the benefit of land by the Crown or by any statutory public body, unless the work or material has been paid for by the contribution of the owner or occupier made for that purpose otherwise than through payment of taxes or rates;

prescribed lands means the lands to which this Act applies;

[Section 2 Amended by No. 45 of 2003, Sched. 1, Applied:01 Jan 2004] real value, in respect of land compulsorily acquired under section 8 , means the value of that land for the purposes of section 27 of the Land Acquisition Act 1993 as the land existed on the day in respect of which compensation is to be determined under that Act;