§ 38. The power of the Local Government Board of making regulations under Section fifty-six of the Act of 1909 shall include power to make regulations as to the procedure consequent on the passing of a resolution by a local authority to prepare or adopt a town planning scheme, and provision shall be made by those regulations for securing that a local authority after passing such a resolution shall proceed with all reasonable speed with the preparation or adoption of the town planning scheme, and shall comply with any regulations as to steps to be taken for that purpose, including provisions enabling the Local Government Board in the case of default or dilatoriness on the part of the local authority to act in the place and at the expense of the local authority.
§ Lords Amendment:
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At the end insert the words
(2) Sub-section (2) of Section fifty-six of the Act of 1909 shall have effect as if the following paragraph were added thereto:
' For securing that the council of this county in which any land proposed to be included in a town planning scheme is situated (1) shall be-furnished with a notice of any proposal to prepare or adopt such a scheme and with a copy of the-draft scheme before the scheme is made, and (2) shall be entitled to be heard at any public local inquiry held by the Local Government Board in regard to tin; scheme'
—Agreed to.