Civic Guard (Acquisition of Premises) Act, 1923

Power to Commissioners to examine and acquire premises.

1.—(1) Whenever the Minister for Home Affairs shall require the Commissioners to provide accommodation in any specified city, town or urban or rural district for any specified number of members of the Civic Guard—

(a) any person appointed for that purpose by the Commissioners may at any time between ten in the morning and five in the afternoon enter any premises in such city, town or district and make such examination thereof as shall appear to such person to be requisite to enable him to decide whether such premises are suitable for the accommodation of the number of members of the Civic Guard aforesaid, and

(b) the Commissioners may acquire under this Act any premises in such city, town or district which appear to the Commissioners to be suitable for the accommodation of the number of members of the Civic Guard aforesaid.

(2) Whenever the Minister for Home Affairs shall require the Commissioners to acquire any premises which at the date of the passing of this Act are being used for the accommodation of members of the Civic Guard or are in the possession of the Commissioners with a view to their being so used, the Commissioners may acquire such premises under this Act (for which purpose such premises shall be deemed to be unoccupied premises), and if so acquired such premises shall be deemed to have been in the possession of the Commissioners under this Act as from the date on which members of the Civic Guard or the Commissioners (as the case may be) first entered into possession or occupation thereof.