Report / Economic Advisory Council. Committee on Slaughtering of Livestock.

  • Great Britain. Economic Advisory Council. Committee on Slaughtering of Livestock.
Date:
1933
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    ee re ee a a ee ae / 17 that in general the small butcher would actually benefit from the contemplated change. We therefore also reject this claim to consequent upon the prohibition of their use for the purpose for which they were constructed. 208. In general, we accept the validity of claims to compensa- tion upon the ground of the reduction in the value of specialised plant or buildings consequent upon the prohibition of their use for the purpose for which they were constructed. If, however, plant and buildings have been erected in the knowledge that their use may be prohibited at either a fixed or an uncertain date in the future, it must be assumed that the owner took the risk deliberately. The claim to compensation, therefore, fails. 209. This qualification is of importance in the present case. The claims of owners of registered slaughterhouses and of slaughter- houses holding a licence without limitation of time to be compen- sated under this head, are not disputed. It is different, however, in the case of owners of slaughterhouses having only a temporary licence. Where powers have been obtained under local acts to close private slaughterhouses it has been the practice of Parliament to provide for the payment of compensation only in respect of those which were either registered or the subject of a licence of unlimited duration. This practice may indeed have been based upon ‘a mistaken analogy with the compensation granted to holders of liquor licences. But the fact that the distinction has been made may have given rise to an expectation that it will be continued strong enough to debar holders of a temporary licence granted after the passing of any such act from any claim to compensation. We suggest, therefore, that any owner of a temporarily licensed slaughterhouse making a claim for compensation should be under the obligation of showing that when the expenditure in respect of which the claim is made was entered into, he had a reasonable expectation that the licence would be indefinitely renewed. (iv) The basis of compensation recommended. 210. We have already recommended (paragraph 200) that all private slaughterhouses should be liable to be closed without compensation ten years after the passing of the Act setting up the National Slaughterhouses Board. For private slaughterhouses closed before that date, we recommend that compensation should be paid upon the following basis :— ages (1) the total compensation payable in respect of any premises’ closed should be the reduction in the value of plant and’ buildings below their replacement cost, less an appro- priate allowance for depreciation, consequent upon the’ (s282] B