Housing (Amendment) Act, 1952

Acquisition of land.

29.—The powers of a housing authority and the commissioners of a town to acquire land for the purposes of Part III of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (as amended by subsequent enactments including this Act) shall be deemed to include, and always to have included, power to acquire land outside their functional area with the consent of the housing authority within whose area such land is situate, and section 7 of the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Act, 1908, shall cease to have effect.