Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Act, 1963

Acquisition of land and of water rights.

13.—(1) Whenever the Organisation requests the Minister to acquire land or a right of impounding, diverting or abstracting water and informs the Minister that the land or right, as the case may be, is required for any purpose related to the activities of the Organisation, the Minister, if he is satisfied that the land or right is required by the Organisation for such purpose, shall acquire such land or right under the powers conferred on him by Part V of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, and upon completion of the acquisition, shall transfer the land or right to the Organisation upon such terms and subject to such conditions as may be agreed upon by the Minister and the Organisation with the consent of the Minister for Finance, or in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance.

(2) Section 36 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after paragraph (c) (inserted by the Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1950 ) of the following paragraph:

“(d) any purpose related to the activities in the State of the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) established by the International Convention relating to Co-operation for the Safety of Air Navigation signed at Brussels on the 13th day of December, 1960”.

(3) The Minister shall not make an order under section 41 of the Principal Act without previous consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce.