Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948

3 Highways.U.K.

(1)Where a Minister certifies as respects any highway—

(a)that in the circumstances existing at a time before the twenty-fourth day of February, nineteen hundred and forty-six an order could have been made under Regulation sixteen, fifty-two or sixty-nine A of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939, as in force at that time, stopping up or diverting the highway; and

(b)that the exercise of the right to use the highway has been continuously prevented since that time, but without the making of such an order;

then section fifteen of the Act of 1945 (which provides for the permanent stopping up or diversion of highways stopped up in the exercise of emergency powers) shall apply as if the exercise of the right to use the highway had been prevented in pursuance of such an order.

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