Camps Act 1939

2 Power to authorise recognised companies to purchase land compulsorily.E+W+S

(1)A recognised company may be authorised . . . F1 by the [F2Secretary of State] (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”) to purchase land compulsorily for the purposes of their functions in connection with the construction, maintenance and management of camps and also any land reasonably necessary for the preservation of the amenities of any land acquired or proposed to be acquired for such purposes.

[F3(2)The M1Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Scotland Act 1947, shall have effect as if any reference therein to a local authority (except the references thereto in subsection (2) of section one, in section two and in paragraph 9 of the First Schedule) included a reference to a recognised company.]

(4)Where a recognised company are authorised by an order confirmed under this section to purchase land compulsorily, then, at any time after notice to treat has been served, the company may, after giving to the owner and to the occupier of the land not less than fourteen days’ notice, enter on and take possession of the land or such part thereof as is specified in the notice, without previous consent or compliance with sections [F4eighty-three to eighty-eight of the M2Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845], but subject to the payment of the like compensation for the land of which possession is taken, and interest on the compensation awarded, as would have been payable if those provisions had been complied with.

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Textual Amendments

F2Words substituted by virtue of s. 7(a) of this Act and Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1(6)(b)

F4Words substituted by virtue of s. 7(a) of this Act

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