§ A local authority or a county council may, notwithstanding anything in Section three hundred and twenty-seven or Section three hundred and thirty-two of the Public Health Act, 1875, but subject to the provisions of Section fifty-two of that Act, be authorised to abstract water from any river, stream, or lake, or the feeders thereof, whether within or without the district of the local authority or the county, for the purpose of affording a water supply for houses provided or to be provided under a scheme made under the Housing Acts, and to do all such acts as may be necessary for affording a water supply to such houses, and to any houses or agricultural holdings that may be deprived of sufficient water supply by reason of such abstraction, in like manner and subject to the like restrictions as they may be authorised to acquire land for the purposes of the scheme:
§ Lords Amendments:
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Leave out the word "and" ["and to any"], and insert instead thereof the words
subject to a prior obligation of affording a sufficient supply of water.''
§ —Agreed to.
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After the word "holdings" ["agricultural holdings"] insert the words
or other premises.
§ —Agreed to.
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Leave out the words "of sufficient water supply," and insert instead thereof the word
thereof.
§ —Agreed to.