HC Deb 03 December 1920 vol 135 c1621

Subject as hereinafter provided, the provisions of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, and of the Housing, &c., Act, 1919, which relate to the procedure for the compulsory acquisition of land for the purposes of Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, by the Minister of Health and local authorities, and to entry on land acquired for those purposes shall apply to the compulsory acquisition of land for the purpose of works of public utility and of land which may be acquired in connection with any such works, and to the entry on land acquired for that purpose, as if those enactments were herein re-enacted with the necessary adaptations and modifications and with the substitution of the appropriate Government Department for the Minister of Health and of the local authority having power to execute a work of public utility for the local authority within the meaning of the said Part III.

Lords Amendment:

After the word "Housing" ["and of the Housing, etc.,"] insert the words "Town Planning."

Agreed to.