§ (1) A local authority within the meaning of Part III. of the principal Act, or a county-council, may promote the formation or extension of, or subject to the provisions of this Section assist a public utility society, whose objects include the erection, improvement or management of houses for the working classes, and where such a society is desirous of erecting houses for the working classes which, in the opinion of the Local Government Board, are required, and the local authority of the area in which the houses are proposed to be built are-unwilling to acquire land with a view to selling or leasing the same to the society, the county council, on the application of the society, may for this purpose acquire land and exercise all the powers of a local authority under the Housing Acts in regard to the acquisition and disposal of land.
§ Lords Amendment:
§
At end, insert the words
and the provisions of those Acts as to the acquisition of land by local authorities within the meaning of Part III. of the principal Act. shall apply accordingly.''
§ —Agreed to.