HC Deb 25 July 1919 vol 118 cc1726-7

Where an order authorising a local authority to purchase land compulsorily for the purpose of part III. of the principal Act has been made and confirmed under the previsions of part I. of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, then at any time after notice to treat has been served, the local authority may, after giving not less than fourteen days' notice to the owner and occupier of the land, enter on and take possession of the land without previous consent or compliance with Sections eighty-three to eighty-eight of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1843, but subject to the payment of the like interest on the compensation awarded.

Mr. MUNRO

I beg to move, after the word "land" ["enter on and take possession of the land"], to insert the words or such part thereof as is specified in the notice. The object of the Clause is to authorise immediate entry upon land which a local authority has been authorised to purchase compulsorily. and the procedure under the Lands Clauses Acts is short-circuited for that purpose. As the Clause stands, it points to simultaneous entry on all the land, whereas immediate possession may be necessary of only a part of the land. The Amendment makes it clear that possession of the land may be taken as it is required.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: After the word "like" ["payment of the like interest"], insert the words compensation for the land of which possession is taken and.

At end, insert the words as would have been payable if those Sections had been complied with." —[Mr. Munro.]