HC Deb 18 December 1916 vol 88 cc1261-2

1. The corporation where they propose to purchase land compulsorily under this Act may submit to the Board an order authorising the corporation to put in force as respects the land specified in the order the provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of land otherwise than by agreement.

4. On the submission of the order to the Board notice of the order shall be published by the corporation in the prescribed manner, and such notice shall be given both in the locality in which the land is proposed to be acquired, and to the owners, lessees, and occupiers of that land as may be prescribed.

5. If within one month after the publication of the notice of the order no objection to the order has been presented to the Board by a person interested in the land, or if every such objection has been withdrawn, the Board shall, without further inquiry, confirm the order, but if such an objection has been presented, and has not been withdrawn, the Board shall forthwith direct a local inquiry as to the propriety of confirming the order, and the corporation and all persons interested in the land and such other persons as the person holding the inquiry in his discretion thinks fit to allow shall be permitted to appear and be heard at the inquiry. Before confirming the order the Board shall consider the report of the person who held the inquiry and all objections made thereat.

Mr. CLANCY

I beg to move, in paragraph 1, after the word "purchase" ["purchase land"], to insert the words "or substitute."

Mr. DUKE

I accept.

Amendment agreed to.

Mr. CLANCY

I beg to move, at the end of paragraph 1, to insert the words "And the provisions of this Act with respect to substitution, as the case requires."

Mr. DUKE

I accept.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In paragraph 4, leave out the word "acquired," and insert instead thereof the words "or substitute."—[Mr. Clancy.]

In paragraph 5 leave out the word "shall" ["The Board shall"], and insert instead thereof the word "may."—[Mr. Duke.]

Motion made, and Question, "That the Bill be now read the third time" [Mr. [Duke], put, and agreed to.

Bill read the third time, and passed.