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Compulsory acquisition of land and ancillary rights.
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19.—(1) Whenever the Minister is of opinion that it is necessary for the efficient or convenient exploitation of any State minerals to acquire any land or any ancillary right, the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, may by order (in this Act referred to as a mining facilities acquisition order), compulsorily acquire, either permanently or temporarly, such land or such ancillary right.
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(2) The following provisions shall apply and have effect in relation to every mining facilities acquisition order, that is to say:—
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(a) where such order provides for the acquisition of land, it shall specify the area and situation of such land and the nature and duration of the interest in such land which is vested in the Minister by such order;
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(b) where such order provides for the acquisition of an ancillary right, it shall specify the character of such right, the situation of any property affected by the exercise of such right, and the nature and duration of the interest in such right which is vested in the Minister by such order;
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(c) such order may contain all such supplementary or ancillary provisions as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, shall think proper;
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(d) such order may contain a provision requiring that, in carrying such order into effect, all persons charged with the execution thereof shall have due regard to the amenities of the locality in which are situate the land or ancillary right acquired by such order;
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(e) such order shall be expressed and shall operate to vest in the Minister the land or the ancillary right thereby acquired for such period and in such manner as shall be specified in such order.
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