You ask.
You see the Act itself.
You keep proof you checked.
A question in ordinary words. What comes back is the section itself, quoted as published, with the date it was last checked against the source.
Nothing is built yet. Nothing to buy. No waiting list. This page shows what it would do, and asks if it is worth building.
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A question in ordinary words. Say: what can be taken into account when working out compensation for a compulsory acquisition?
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Not a summary. Nothing written for you. The section itself, with its name and number.
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What you asked. What you were shown. When it was last checked. Yours to keep, and to show.
Here is what one would look like
What can be taken into account when working out compensation for a compulsory acquisition?
From the pack
Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 (NSW)55 Relevant matters to be considered in determining amount of compensation In determining the amount of compensation to which a person is entitled, regard must be had to the following matters only (as assessed in accordance with this Division)—
- (a) the market value of the land on the date of its acquisition,
- (b) any special value of the land to the person on the date of its acquisition,
- (c) any loss attributable to severance,
- (d) any loss attributable to disturbance,
- (e) the disadvantage resulting from relocation,
- (f) any increase or decrease in the value of any other land of the person at the date of acquisition which adjoins or is severed from the acquired land by reason of the carrying out of, or the proposal to carry out, the public purpose for which the land was acquired.
Note— See also the Electricity Supply Act 1995, section 44(4) and the Energy and Utilities Administration Act 1987, section 15(4).
- Instrument
- Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 (NSW)
- Provision
- Section 55, quoted in full and unaltered
- Source
- legislation.nsw.gov.au · current in-force version
- Checked
- 24 August 2026 · the text matched the source on that date
- Rights
- © State of New South Wales
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 · legislation.nsw.gov.au
- Looked at by
- you · date and time of the search
This text matched the in-force version at legislation.nsw.gov.au on 24 August 2026. That is a dated check, not a claim that it still reads this way today — anything commencing after that date is not reflected here. The record carries the date so nobody has to take currency on trust.
An illustration. The provision, its licence and the date it was checked against the source are real; the session is not. Nothing is built yet.
The indented words are the Act’s, not ours — set in a different typeface for exactly that reason, section heading included. Nothing is summarised and nothing is drafted for you. The opinion stays yours; the record shows what was in front of you when you formed it.
Why it would work this way
It quotes, it doesn’t rewrite
You see the provision as published. A paraphrase is something you would have to go and check anyway.
Every answer carries a date
A citation without a date is one you cannot rely on a year later.
The record is the point
What you looked at, what it said, the date it was checked against the source, and when you looked.
What is in the pack
Statutory valuation in New South Wales. The four instruments below are published under CC BY 4.0 — an open licence that permits reuse, provided the source is named. Court decisions are not in the pack. We read the terms for both sets; neither clearly allows the indexing this would do. So they are left out rather than worked around.
| Instrument | Version date | Terms of use |
|---|---|---|
| Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 | 2024-07-05 | CC BY 4.0 |
| Valuation of Land Act 1916 | 2023-09-04 | CC BY 4.0 |
| Valuation of Land Regulation 2018 | 2021-01-22 — REPEALED 29 Aug 2025, replaced by the Valuation of Land Regulation 2025, which is not in the pack | CC BY 4.0 |
| Land Tax Management Regulation 2024 | 2024-06-07 — regulation only; parent Act absent; in force, but the licensor’s current version is 12 Dec 2025 | CC BY 4.0 |
| NSW Land & Environment Court decisions | not recorded | NSW State authorisation, revocable; conditions on publication |
| Federal Court decisions | not recorded | Court’s own terms: unaltered form, with acknowledgement |
What is not in it — said here rather than found by asking.
We searched 118,346 documents: the machine-readable half of the Open Australian Legal Corpus, which reports 232,560 in all. An absence below therefore means not found in what we searched — not absent from the law.
Not found: the Land Tax Management Act 1956, though its 2024 Regulation is here, or the Duties Act 1997. Rating provisions came back only for Queensland and Tasmania, so none for New South Wales. What the pack does cover is compulsory acquisition and land valuation in New South Wales — not land tax, not duties, no other state.
Dates are the version each text carries, as the corpus records it — not a statement that any of them is still current. The legislation sources were last swept against the licensor on 2026-08-26; the sweep exists because one of them turned out to have been repealed since 2025. Sources whose terms do not permit this use are excluded outright — including one we would rather have had. Free to download is not the same as licensed to index. The two case-law sets sit under different terms — NSW decisions under a State authorisation, Federal Court decisions under the Court's own terms — and both were read condition by condition. Neither settles indexing: the Federal Court page does not mention it, and the NSW authorisation requires external robots to be excluded without saying whether our own index counts as one.
Where you would use it
In your browser. The section, its date and the record on one screen. Also in Microsoft Teams, beside the work you are already doing, linking back to the full record.
Before we build any more of it
When did a job last stop while you went and checked something?
Not a hard valuation — just something you had to confirm before you could sign off.
No list, no follow-up sequence. We read these ourselves and that’s the whole of it. Where this goes.
Plainly
This is early. Nothing is built yet, there is nothing to buy, and no waiting list.
The provision quoted above is real and shown as published. It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for checking the current version of the Act.
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