Unemployment (Relief Works) Act, 1940

Application to annul preliminary order.

10.—(1) The occupier or any person having an estate or interest in or right over the land to which a preliminary order relates may, not later than twenty-one days or, if there is an occupied building on the land, twenty-eight days after the posting of such order on or near the land to which such order relates apply to the Minister for the annulment of such order, and, on such application the Minister may at his discretion either annul such order or restrict the application of such order to portion of the land to which it originally related.

(2) Before determining an application under this section, the Minister may hold a public inquiry into the subject matter thereof and Article 32 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, shall apply in respect of every such public inquiry in like manner as the said Article applies in respect of the local inquiries therein mentioned.