Housing Amendment Act, 1948

Power of entry on lands proposes to be acquired.

36.—(1) Where a council of a county are by a compulsory purchase order made and confirmed under section 20 of the Act of 1932 authorised to purchase land compulsorily for the purposes of the Labourers Acts, the council may at any time after such order has become operative on giving not less than fourteen days notice in writing to the owner and occupier of the land enter on and take possession of the land or of such part thereof as may be specified in the notice without previous consent or compliance with the provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts as amended by the Labourers Acts relating to entry on lands and upon the service of any such notice the council shall be deemed to have signified their intention of purchasing the land and shall be liable to the payment of the like compensation, as if the said provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts had been complied with and to payment of interest upon such compensation as from the time of such entry.

(2) Where a council of a county have agreed to purchase land for the purposes of the Labourers Acts subject to the interest of the person in possession thereof, and that interest is not greater than that of a tenant for a year or from year to year then, at any time after such agreement has been made the council may, after giving to the person so in possession twenty-one days' notice in writing, enter on and take possession of the land or such part thereof as is specified in the notice without previous consent but subject to the payment to the person so in possession of the like compensation, with interest thereon as aforesaid, as if the council had been authorised to purchase the land compulsorily and such person had in pursuance of such power been required to quit possession before the expiration of his term or interest in the land, but without the necessity of compliance with the provisions, relating to entry on lands, of the Lands Clauses Acts as amended by the Labourers Acts.