Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919

Power of entry on land compulsorily acquired.

8 & 9 Vict. c. 18.

7. Where an order authorising the acquisition of land by a local authority for the purposes of Part III. of the Act of 1890 has been made and confirmed under the provisions of section six of the Act of 1908, then at any time after the notice of the appointment of the arbitrator has been published the local authority may, on giving not less than fourteen days’ notice to the owner and occupier of the land, enter on and take possession of the land or such part thereof as is specified in the notice without previous consent or compliance with sections eighty-four to ninety of the Lands Clauses (Consolidation) Act, 1845, or any similar enactment, but subject to the payment of the like compensation for the land of which possession is taken and interest on the compensation awarded as would have been payable if those enactments had been complied with.