Arterial Drainage (Minor Schemes) Act, 1928

Acquisition of land for purposes of drainage scheme.

11.—(1) A county council or joint committee charged with the carrying out of a drainage scheme under this Act may at any time after the confirmation of such scheme acquire, either by agreement or compulsorily, for the purposes of such scheme any lands, rights or other property stated in such scheme as intended to be acquired, and for the purpose of such acquisition every drainage scheme shall be deemed to incorporate the Lands Clauses Acts as amended by the Second Schedule to the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, section 11 of the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Act, 1908, sections 7 and 12 of the Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919 , and the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 , and those Acts shall apply accordingly.

(2) All property acquired under this section by a joint committee shall be conveyed to and vested in the county council of the county in which such property is situate and the conveyance or the receipt or other document operating as the conveyance of such property shall be framed accordingly and such property shall be held by such council upon trust for the purposes of the drainage scheme.