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Compulsory acquisition definition

What does Compulsory acquisition mean? In M&A practice, compulsory acquisition is the statutory “mop‑up” of minority shareholdings after a takeover offer, enabling an offeror to force the purchase of non‑assenting shareholders’ shares (squeeze‑out) and allowing remaining shareholders to require the offeror to buy their shares (sell‑out), in each case on the same terms as the offer. In the UK, the regime is set out in Companies Act 2006, sections 974–991. Squeeze‑out rights arise where the offeror has acquired, or agreed to acquire, at least 90% of the shares to which the offer relates and, if relevant, at least 90% of the voting rights...

Compulsory purchase of agricultural land: compensation for tenants and landlords, farm business tenancies, AHA 1986 holdings, loss/occupier payments, and opencast coal mining

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Farm Business tenancy — Compulsory acquisition of tenant’s interest

Where land is:

used for agriculture (within the meaning of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 (ATA 1995)) in the course of a trade or business, or
included in a farm business tenancy (within the meaning of ATA 1995) and used for a trade or business,

and the tenant (the person conducting that trade or business) is required to vacate because an interest in the land is either taken compulsorily or disposed of by agreement to an Authority holding compulsory purchase powers, the acquiring authority may pay such reasonable allowance as it considers appropriate towards the tenant’s removal costs and the loss which, in its view, the tenant will incur owing to disruption of the tenant’s trade or business.

When assessing the tenant’s loss, the acquiring authority must take into account the period for which the land might reasonably have been expected to remain available for that trade or business, and the availability of alternative land suitable for that use...

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