SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 24Transitional Provisions and Savings
PART VIIAcquisition of Land etc.
Consent of Minister to acquisition, appropriation or disposal of land
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Nothing in Part I of this Schedule shall be construed as validating any transaction whereby a local authority purported, in the exercise of a power conferred by an enactment repealed by the Act of 1962, but without the consent of the Minister then required by that enactment—
a
to acquire land by agreement in pursuance of a contract made before 16th August 1959 ; or
b
to appropriate or dispose of land before that date,
notwithstanding that the transaction could have been validly effected without that consent under the corresponding provisions of Part VI of this Act.