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Additional powers as to acquisition, sale and leasing of land under Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1931.
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21.—(1) A board of health acting in the execution of the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1931, may acquire land, either by agreement with the consent of the Minister or compulsorily under the powers conferred by those Acts as amended by this Act, for the purpose of selling or leasing such land or any part thereof to persons and public utility societies with a view to the erection thereon by such persons or societies of cottages suitable for occupation by agricultural labourers.
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(2) Where a board of health have under the powers conferred by this section or otherwise, acquired for the purposes of the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1931, any land, such board may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in those Acts but subject to the consent of the Minister, sell or lease such land or any part thereof to any person or public utility society or, in the case of land acquired by such board under the said Acts otherwise than for the purposes of this section, to any local authority within the meaning of Part III of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, for the purpose and under the condition that such person, society, or local authority shall erect and maintain on such land such number of houses suitable for occupation by agricultural labourers as may be fixed by such board of health and in accordance with plans approved of by such board.
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(3) Land sold or leased under this section shall be sold or leased at the best price or rent that can reasonably be obtained for the same having regard to any conditions imposed, and all capital money received in respect of any transaction under this section shall be applied in or towards the purchase of other land for the purposes of the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1931, as amended by this Act or, with the consent of the Minister, to any purpose, including the repayment of borrowed money, to which capital money may properly be applied.
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