§ (1) A district board of control may, with the consent of the Board, from time to time for the purpose of any of their powers and duties under the Lunacy Acts or this Act (including, as incidental to the 1704 provision of an asylum or of an institution for defectives, the open-air exercising of patients and their occupation in agricultural or other works), acquire, purchase, or take or lease and hold any land.
§ (2) For the purpose of such acquisition of land, the Lands Clauses Acts shall be incorporated with the said Acts, except the provisions of those Acts relating to the purchase and taking of land otherwise than by agreement.
§ (3) For the purpose of such acquisition of land otherwise than by agreement, Section one hundred and forty-five of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, shall, with the substitution of the assessment authorised to be levied by the district board under the Lunacy Acts and this Act for the assessments therein mentioned, and with any other necessary substitutions, apply as if it were herein re-enacted and in terms made applicable to a district board of control; provided that a district board shall not without the consent of the Board make an application to the Local Government Board for Scotland under that Section.
§ (4) A district board of control may, with the sanction of the Board, sell, let, or feu any surplus land, and shall apply the proceeds thereof towards the reduction of debt, or in such other manner as the Board may direct.
§ (5) In this Section and in the Lands Clauses Acts as hereby incorporated the expression "land" includes water and any right or servitude over water.
§ (6) The provisions for enabling a district board to acquire and hold lands and heritages or to acquire additional ground contained in the Acts of 1857 and 1862 shall cease to have effect.
§ (7) The expression "purpose of this Act" in Section sixty-two of the Act of 1857 shall be construed as meaning any purposes of the Lunacy Acts or this Act involving capital expenditure; and a district board may, with the consent of the Board, borrow money for such purposes on the security of the lunacy and mental deficiency rate; provided that all money so borrowed shall be repaid by equal annual instalments of principal within a period not. exceeding sixty years from the date of borrowing the same, such period to be fixed by the Board in each case with due regard to the nature of the expenditure and the probable time during which it will remain effective.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (3), leave out the words "to be levied by the 1705 district board under the Lunacy Acts and this Act for the assessments therein mentioned and with any other necessary substitutions, apply as if it were herein reenacted and in terms made applicable to a district board of control; provided that a district board shall not without the consent of the Board make an application to the Local Government Board for Scotland under that Section."
§ In Sub-section (7), leave out the words "lunacy and mental deficiency rate," and insert instead thereof the words "assessment authorised under the Lunacy Acts and this Act."—[Mr. McKinnon Wood.]