Dublin Reconstruction (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1924

Narrow and inconvenient sites.

2.—(1) If in the opinion of the Corporation and the Minister the site or sites of one or more buildings which were destroyed in the recent disturbances is or are, by reason of narrowness of frontage or inconvenient arrangement, incapable of being built upon so as to harmonise with the general scheme for the reconstruction of the area, the Corporation may be authorised to purchase such site or sites compulsorily by means of an order submitted to the Minister and confirmed in accordance with the Schedule to this Act.

(2) Any order authorising the Corporation to purchase compulsorily a site or sites under this section may provide that any portion or portions of such site or sites shall be deemed to be acquired, intervening or substituted lands as the case may be, and the provisions of section 1 of this Act shall apply to such portions where so acquired as if they were acquired, intervening or substituted lands under that section.

(3) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) of this section the Corporation shall sell or let any site or sites acquired under this section in one or more lots suitable to the general reconstruction scheme, by public auction or, with the sanction of the Minister, by private treaty.