§ (1.) For the purpose of taking lands compulsorily by purchase under the principal Acts, the provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement shall be deemed 271 to be amended by the provisions contained in the Second schedule of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890, and such provisions shall (subject as by this section provided) be deemed to form part of the principal Acts in like manner as if therein expressly enacted.
§ (2.) In the construction for the purposes of the principal Acts of the provisions contained in the said Second schedule to the said Act of 1890, the "local authority" shall mean the sanitary authority, the "confirming Act" shall mean the order of the Local Government Board authorising the improvement scheme, when the same has become absolute or been confirmed, the "confirming authority" shall mean the Local Government Board, and references to the said Act of 1890 or to Part I. thereof shall be deemed references to the principal Acts.
§ THE EARL OF RANFURLYmoved, in Sub-section (1), to leave out the word "section" and to insert instead thereof the word "Act."
§ Amendment agreed to.
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