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Power to authorise superior landlord to enter and execute works.
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25.—(1) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the court on an application in accordance with rules of court by any person entitled to any interest in any land used in whole or in part as a site for houses for the working classes that the premises on the land are, or are likely to become, dangerous, or injurious to health, or unfit for human habitation, and that the interests of the applicant are thereby prejudiced, or that the applicant should be entrusted with the carrying out of a scheme of reconstruction or improvement approved by the local authority of the district in which the land is situate, the court may make an order empowering the applicant forthwith to enter on the land and within the time fixed by the order to execute such works as may be necessary, and may order that any lease or agreement for a lease held from the applicant and any derivative underlease shall be determined subject to such conditions and to the payment of such compensation as the court may think just.
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(2) The court shall include in its order provisions to secure that the proposed works are carried out, and may authorise the local authority in whose area the land is situated or which has approved a scheme of reconstruction or improvement under this section, to exercise such supervision or take such action as may be necessary for the purpose.
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(3) For the purposes of this section, “court” means the High Court, and, where the annual value of the land does not exceed thirty pounds, the county court.
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