Explosives Act, 1875

Local authority to have certain powers to take land otherwise than by agreement.

30 & 31 Vict. c. 101.

113. In Scotland, every local authority under this Act shall have and may exercise the same powers for the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, for the purpose of erecting a gunpowder magazine thereon, that any local authority under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, have and may exercise under the provisions of section ninety of the said last-mentioned Act.