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Incorporation.
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Lands Clauses Acts.
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8 & 9 Vict. c. 18.
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23 & 24 Vict. c. 106.
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32 & 33 Vict. c. 18.
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3. With a view to the purchase of lands for the purposes of this Act, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, 1860, and 1869, in this Act referred to as the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, shall be incorporated with this Act, with the exceptions and additions and subject to the provisions following; (that is to say,)
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(1.) There shall not be incorporated with this Act the sections and provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, herein-after mentioned; (that is to say,) section sixteen, whereby it is provided that the capital is to be subscribed before the compulsory powers are to be put in force; section seventeen, whereby it is provided that the certificate of the justices shall be evidence that the capital has been subscribed; or the provisions relating to affording access to the special Act; and,
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(2.) In the construction of this Act and the said incorporated Acts this Act shall be deemed to be “the special Act,” and the said Secretary of State shall be deemed to be “the promoters of the undertaking”; and
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(3.) The bond required by section eighty-five of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be under the seal of the Secretary of State, and shall be sufficient without the addition of the sureties in the said section mentioned.
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(4.) The words “lands” shall in this Act and the said incorporated Acts include any easement in lands.
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(5.) When compensation has been paid to any person in respect of any estate or interest in lands taken under this Act, such lands shall vest in the said Secretary of State for all the estate and interest of such person, including any estate or interest therein held in trust by such person or capable of being conveyed by him in pursuance of any power. Nevertheless the said Secretary of State may require such person to execute any conveyance which he might have been required to execute if this Act had not passed, and nothing in this section contained shall in any manner invalidate such conveyance when executed.
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(6.) The said Secretary of State shall not put in force the provisions of the said incorporated Acts, with respect to the purchase of land compulsorily, until he has obtained the sanction of Parliament in manner in this Act mentioned.
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