Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, 1884

Power to take land.

2. (1.) The Commissioners may purchase, take, and use for the purposes of the Act of 1877, all or any of the prescribed lands, and may remove the buildings thereon, and sell or dispose of the materials thereof.

(2.) For the purpose of such purchase there shall be incorporated with this Act the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as amended by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860, the Railways Act (Ireland), 1851, the Railways Act (Ireland), l860, the Railways Act (Ireland), 1864, and the Railways Traverse Act, subject as follows:

(a.) There shall not be incorporated with this Act sections one hundred and twenty-seven to one hundred and thirty-two, both inclusive, of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, with respect to the sale of superfluous land, nor sections one hundred and fifty and one hundred and fifty-one relating to access to the special Act.

(b.) In the construction of the said Acts for the purposes of this Act, “the promoters of the undertaking” and “the company” shall respectively be construed to mean the Commissioners, and the Act of 1877, as amended by this Act, shall be deemed to be the special Act, but the date for the period of compulsory purchase shall run from the passing of this Act.

(c.) Any arbitrator who under the said Acts would be appointed by the Commissioners shall be appointed by the Board of Trade, by order in writing under the hand of the President or one of the secretaries of the Board, and the said Acts shall apply as if in the provisions relating to the arbitrator the Board of Trade were therein mentioned in lieu of the Commissioners.