Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945

Acquisition of land, etc., by the Board.

7.—(1) For the purpose of carrying out an approved scheme or doing anything which the Board is authorised by the next preceding section to do for that purpose, the Board may do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) acquire any land either permanently or temporarily and either by agreement or compulsorily;

(b) acquire (either permanently or temporarily and either by agreement or compulsorily) any easement, way-leave, fishery, fishing right, water-right, or other right whatsoever over or in respect of any land or water;

(c) terminate, restrict, or otherwise interfere with (either permanently or temporarily and either by agreement or compulsorily) any easement, way-leave, fishery, fishing right, water-right, or other right whatsoever existing over or in respect of any land or water;

(d) divert, close, remove, submerge, or otherwise interfere with (either permanently or temporarily and either by agreement or compulsorily) any private road, way, or bridge or any canal or other artificial water-way or any artificial watercourse;

(e) interfere with any land either permanently or temporarily and either by agreement or compulsorily.

(2) Whenever, on the completion of the carrying out of an approved scheme, it appears to the Board that any land, easement, way-leave, or other property acquired by the Board under this Act for the purposes of such approved scheme is not required for those purposes, it shall be lawful for the Board to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of such property.