§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move, in page 13, line 31, at the end to insert: "(except section two thereof)."
This and the following two Amendments are not entirely drafung. On the Committee stage it was urged by hon. Members opposite that in the application of the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation (Procedure) Act, 1946, to the acquisition of land by electricity boards under this Bill the provision in the 1946 Act for speedy acquisition of land should be omitted. Section 2 provides for the speedy acquisition of land, and hon. Members opposite proposed that should be omitted in the application of that Act to this Bill. This and the following two Amendments deal with that point.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Consequential Amendments made.
§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move in page 14, line 3, at the end, to insert:
(3) Section fourteen of the Schedule to the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act, 1899 (as incorporated with this Act), so far as the said section relates to the Postmaster General, shall apply to the placing of an electric line in pursuance of any right purchased under this section in like manner as it applies, to the execution of works involving the placing of lines in, under, along, or across any street or public bridge.This Amendment applies the provisions of Section 14 of the Schedule to the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act, 1899, to Acts in which, under the provisions of Clause 288 9 of this Bill, the board compulsorily acquires the right to place an electric line over land. The provisions of Section 14 are to the effect that if an undertaker wishes to exercise these powers he has to give notice to the Postmaster-General. In the event of there being a difference between the undertaker and the Postmaster-General, Section 14 provides for certain machinery for the resolution of differences, and provides also for the payment of compensation in the event of damage being caused to the Postmaster-General's property. This Amendment seeks to say that if the Electricity Board, acting under the terms of Clause 9, compulsorily acquires the right to lay wires across land, it must, in the same way, give notice to the Postmaster-General in order that the question whether the proposed laying of the line will damage the Postmaster-General's property can be determined in the way in which it is determined under Section 14 of the 1899 Act.
§ Amendment agreed to.