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Countryside Act 1968

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Acquisition by agreement and appropriation

4(1)A local authority shall not acquire by agreement, or appropriate, any common land for the purposes of the principal section except as authorised under paragraph 1 of this Schedule.

(2)Subject to sub-paragraph (1) above, a local authority may appropriate any common land for the purposes of the principal section without compliance with the provisions of section 163 of the [1933 c. 51.] Local Government Act 1933 or section 104 of the Act of 1949 as amended by section 23 of the [1959 c. 53.] Town and Country Planning Act 1959 (under which the approval of the Minister is required).

(3)On an appropriation of land under this paragraph such adjustment shall be made in the accounts of the local authority as the Minister may direct.

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