HC Deb 10 September 1909 vol 10 cc1713-4

Provisions as to the Compulsory Acquisition of Land by a Local Authority for the Purposes of Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.

SUB-SECTION (4).—The order shall be in the prescribed form, and shall contain such provisions as the Board may prescribe for the purpose of carrying the order into effect, and of protecting the local authority and the persons interested in the land, and shall incorporate, subject to the necessary adaptations, the Lands Clauses Acts and Sections seventy-seven to eighty-five of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, but subject to this modification, that any question of disputed compensation shall be determined by a single arbitrator appointed by the Board, who shall be deemed to be an arbitrator within the meaning of the Lands Clauses Acts, and the provisions of those Acts with respect to arbitration shall, subject to the provisions of this Schedule, apply accordingly.

Amendment made:—

In Sub-section (4), after the word "Acts" ["the Lands Clauses Acts and Sections"], to insert the words "(except Section one hundred and twenty-seven of The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845)."—[Mr. Burns.]

Sub-section (14), paragraph (a), for the reference to Sections seventy-seven to eighty-five of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, there shall be substituted a reference to Sections seventy to seventy-eight of the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845.

Amendment made:—

At the beginning of paragraph (a) ["for the reference to Sections seventy-seven"], to insert the words "for the reference to Section one hundred and twenty-seven of The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, there shall be substituted a reference to Section one hundred and twenty of The Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland). Act, 1845, and."—[Mr. Burns.]