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Power to pier authority to purchase land.
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5. (1.) A pier authority shall be bound to maintain and keep in sufficient order and repair the pier or piers so committed to them, and shall have power, subject to the provisions of this Act and of the order committing to them the maintenance of any one or more of the said piers, from time to time to purchase or take on lease or otherwise acquire any lands required by them for the purpose of such maintenance, and shall be empowered to improve and keep in sufficient order the approaches to any pier named in the First Schedule to this Act.
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(2.) With a view to the purchase of lands by a pier authority, the Lands Clauses Acts shall, so far as they are applicable, be incorporated with this Act, with the exception of the provisions of those Acts which relate to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement; and, in construing the said Lands Clauses Acts for the purpose of this Act, this Act and the order committing to such authority such maintenance as aforesaid shall together constitute the “special Act,” and the pier authority shall be the “promoters of the undertaking.”
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