Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896

Application of Lands Clauses Acts and Housing of Working Classes Act, 1890.

53 & 54 Vict. c. 70.

8.(1) For the purpose of taking lands compulsorily by purchase under the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1890 (in this section referred to as “the principal Acts”), the provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement shall be deemed to be amended by the provisions contained in the Second Schedule of the Housing of Working Classes Act, 1890, and such provisions shall (subject as by this section provided) be deemed to form part of the principal Acts in like manner as if therein expressly enacted.

(2) In the construction for the purposes of the principal Acts of the provisions contained in the said Second Schedule to the said Act of 1890, the “local authority” shall mean the sanitary authority, the “confirming Act” shall mean the Act of Parliament confirming the provisional order of the Local Government Board empowering the sanitary authority to put in force the powers of the Lands Clauses Acts, the “confirming authority” shall mean the Local Government Board, and references to the said Act of 1890 or to Part I. thereof shall be deemed references to the principal Acts.

Port Sanitary Authority.