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payment of the purchase price of any house erected by or on behalf of any local authority in pursuance of any scheme under the Housing Acts, 1890 to 1919.

6. The Minister may, with the approval of the Treasury, make regulations with respect to the issue (including terms of issue), transfer and redemption of local bonds and the security therefor, and any such regulations may apply, with or without modifications, any provisions of the Local Loans Act, 1875, and the Acts amending that Act, and of any Act relating to securities issued by the London County Council or by any other local or public body. For the Regulations, see page 698.

PUBLIC WORKS LOANS ACT, 1920 [10 & 11 GEO. 5. CH. 61.] [23rd December 1920] 5.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Public Works Loan Commissioners may advance out of the Local Loans Fund to local authorities within the meaning of the Housing Acts, 1890 to 1919, and on the like security as sums borrowed for the purposes of those Acts, any sums which those authorities have power to borrow for those purposes:

Provided that—

(a) the amount of an advance to any local authority
shall not exceed such sum as may be approved by
the Treasury and the Minister of Health in that
behalf; and

(b) the amount advanced shall be repaid by the local
authority to the Local Loans Fund within a period
of twelve months from the date of the advance.
(2) Interest on advances under this section shall be
payable at such a rate as the Treasury may from time to
time fix or, if at any time and so long as the rate originally
fixed by the Treasury in the case of any advance is less than
the bank rate for the time being in force, at the bank rate.

(3) A local authority to whom an advance has been made under this section may, without the consent of the Minister of Health, borrow any money required for the purpose of repaying the advance.

(4) The power to make advances under this section shall not be exercised after the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-one.

Power to make temporary ad

vances from

Local Loans Fund to local for housing

authorities

purposes.

Provision
for facili-
tating the
compulsory
acquisition
of, and entry

on, land

required for works of

public utility.

9 Edw. 7. c. 44.

9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 35.

UNEMPLOYMENT (RELIEF WORKS) ACT, 1920

[10 & 11 GEO. 5. CH. 57.]

An Act to make better provision for the employment of unemployed persons by facilitating the acquisition of, and entry on, land required for works of public utility, and for purposes connected therewith. [3rd December 1920.] Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Subject as hereinafter provided, the provisions of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, and of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1919, which relate to the procedure for the compulsory acquisition of land for the purposes of Part III of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, by the Minister of Health and local authorities, and to entry on land acquired for those purposes, shall apply to the compulsory acquisition of land for the purpose of works of public utility and of land 53 & 54 Vict. which may be acquired in connection with any such works, and to the entry on land acquired for that purpose, as if those enactments were herein re-enacted with the necessary adaptations and modifications and with the substitution of the appropriate Government department for the Minister of Health and of the local authority having power to execute a work of public utility for the local authority within the meaning of the said Part III:

c. 70.

Provided that

(a) the powers conferred by this section shall not be exercised except where it is certified by the Minister of Labour that, having regard to the amount of unemployment existing in any area, it is desirable that the provisions of this section should be put into operation with a view to the speedy provision of employment for unemployed persons from that area, and the Minister of Labour shall take into consideration any representations which may be made to him by any local authority to the effect that he should issue a certificate under this section; and

(b) no order authorising the compulsory acquisition of any land for any purpose shall be made under any enactment as applied by this section, unless an order authorising the compulsory acquisition of that land for that purpose could have been made under some enactment in force at the commencement of this Act; and

(c) where an enactment in force at the commencement of this Act, which authorises the compulsory acquisition of land for any purpose for which land has been authorised to be acquired compulsorily by an order made under this Act, contains a provision that the arbitrator in determining the amount of any disputed compensation shall have regard to the extent to which the remaining and contiguous lands and hereditaments belonging to the same proprietor may be benefited by the proposed work for which the land is authorised to be acquired, that provision shall have effect

Power to

enter on and

as respects land authorised to be acquired compulsorily by the said order.

2. (1.) If it appears to the Minister of Labour that acquire land immediate action is necessary for the purpose of dealing for construc- with unemployment, and that land cannot be acquired improvement under the foregoing provisions of this Act with such expe

tion and

of roads.

dition as the case requires, he may certify accordingly, and thereupon the Minister of Transport (in this section referred to as "the Minister ") or, with the approval of the Minister, any local authority, shall, subject to the provisions of this section, have power forthwith to enter upon and take possession of any such land as may be required for or in connection with the construction of any arterial road, being a road which the Minister or the local authority, as the case may be, has or have power to construct or required by the local authority for the improvement of any road, with a view to the employment of unemployed persons in the construction or improvement of the road:

Provided that nothing in the foregoing provision shall authorise the Minister or any local authority to enter on any permanent building or structure, or to enter upon or take possession of any land unless that land could, under some enactment in force at the commencement of this Act, have been authorised to be acquired compulsorily for, or in connection with, the construction or improvement of a road.

(2.) Before entering on any land under this Act, the Minister or local authority shall give seven days' notice in writing of the intention so to do to the owner and occupier of the land.

A notice for the purposes of this provision may be served either

(a) by delivering it to or leaving it at the usual or last known place of abode of the person on whom it is to be served; or

(b) by sending it by post in a prepaid letter addressed to that person at his usual or last known place of abode; or

(c) by delivering it to some person on the premises or,

if there is no person on the premises who can be so
served, by affixing it on some conspicuous part
of the premises;

and any such notice may be addressed by the description
of the "owner" or the "occupier" of the premises
(naming them) without further name or description.

(3.) Where the Minister or a local authority enter upon any land in pursuance of this section, he or they shall, by virtue of this section, have power to acquire the land compulsorily, and for the purpose of the acquisition of any such land the provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be deemed to be incorporated in this Act.

c. 18.

(4.) The Minister or local authority shall, as soon as may be after entering on any land under this section, serve notice under section eighteen of the Lands Clauses 8 & 9 Victa Consolidation Act, 1845, of the intention to take the land, and shall add to the notice a statement that the entry on the land is made in pursuance of this Act, and shall in all respects be liable as if such notice had been given on the date of entering on the land.

(5.) The power conferred by this section to enter on land may, save as hereinbefore in this section provided, be exercised without notice to or the consent of any person and without compliance with the provisions of sections eighty-four to ninety of the Lands Clauses Consolidation

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