CLAUSE 10.—(Provision as to power of local education authorities to acquire land by agreement.) (Hansard, 30 April 1948)

§ Mr. Tomlinson

I beg to move, in page 10, line 23, at the beginning to insert: (1) Subsection (1) of Section ninety of the principal Act (under which a local education authority may be authorised to purchase compulsorily land required for the purposes of any school or college which is, or is to be, maintained by them, or otherwise for the purposes of their functions under that Act) shall be amended by inserting therein, after the words 'for the purposes of any school or college which is, or is to be, maintained by them' the words 'or which they have power to assist.' Members of the Committee will recollect that in Committee an Amendment in the form of a new Clause was put down by my hon. Friend the Member for East Islington (Mr. E. Fletcher) asking that that which we were seeking to do with regard to the compulsory purchase of land should also be applied where it was a question of an assisted school. I promised him that I would look at the matter to see if we could include those powers in the present Clause 10, thus avoiding the necessity for a new Clause. The Amendment on the Order Paper is an Amendment to Section go and it accomplishes what the hon. Member for East Islington, sought to accomplish, by amending Clause 10 as it now stands. This is an Amendment to Section go of the principal Act. It gives the local education authority specific power to purchase compulsorily land for a school which they have power to assist and thus it brings the law of compulsory purchase into line with the law as laid down in Clause 10 of the Bill for the purchase of land by agreement.