- (1) Where the Minister is satisfied that any local authority (including a county council) or two or more local authorities jointly, or any authorised association, are prepared to purchase and develop any land as a garden city (including a garden suburb or a garden village), or for the purpose of a. town-planning scheme for the area in which the town is situate, in accordance with a scheme approved by the Minister, and have funds available for the purpose, he may with the consent of the Treasury and after consultation with the Board of Trade, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Minister of Transport, acquire that land on behalf of the authority or association either by compulsion or by agreement in any case in which it appears to him necessary or
1569 expedient so to do for the purpose of securing the development of the land as aforesaid, an may for that purpose exercise any of the powers of a local authority in relation to the acquisition of land under the Housing Acts, 1890 to 1919, and may do all such things as may be necessary to vest the land, so acquired in the local authority or association. - (2) In this Section "authorised association" means any society, company or body of persons approved by the Minister whose objects include the promotion, formation; or management of garden cities (including garden suburbs, and garden villages), and the erection, improvement or management of buildings for the working classes and others, which does not trade for profit or whose constitution forbids payment of any interest or dividend at a higher rate than six per centum per annum.
§ Amendment made: In Sub-section (1) leave out the word "town" ["in which the town is situate"], and insert instead thereof the word "land."—[Dr. Addison.]
§ Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Clauses 10 (Application to Scotland), 11 (Application to Ireland) and 12 (Short Title and Duration) ordered to stand part of the Bill.