Acquisition of Derelict Sites Act, 1940

Use of land acquired under this Act.

9.—(1) A sanitary authority may use any land acquired by them under this Act for any purpose connected with their powers and duties.

(2) Where the whole or any part of any land acquired under this Act is at any time not required by the sanitary authority by whom it was acquired, such sanitary authority may sell or let by public auction or private treaty in one or more lots the whole or such part (as the case may be) of such land, but no such sale or letting shall take effect unless and until the Minister has consented thereto.

(3) Where a rural sanitary authority acquire under this Act any land situate in a town in which the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, has been adopted, such sanitary authority may, with the consent of the Minister and of the Commissioners of such town, at any time by order transfer such land to such Commissioners and such order shall operate in accordance with its terms as a conveyance of such land but shall not require to be stamped as a conveyance or transfer of property.

(4) Where any land is transferred to the Commissioners of a town under the immediately preceding sub-section of this section, sub-sections (1) and (2) of this section and the next following section shall apply and have effect as if such Commissioners were a sanitary authority who had acquired such land under this Act.