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Power to improve prisons and build new ones.
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18. Where for the purpose of enlarging improving or building any prison it shall be necessary to acquire any lands, the General Prisons Board, with the consent of the Treasury, may enter into agreements for the acquirement of such lands or take such lands without entering into such agreements, and for the purposes aforesaid there shall be incorporated with this Act the Lands Clauses Acts; and in the said last-mentioned Acts the terms “the promoters of the undertaking” and “the company” shall for the purpose of such incorporation be deemed to mean the General Prisons Board, and the terms “the undertaking” and “the railway” used therein shall, when necessary, be deemed to mean the works the General Prisons Board are about to execute: Provided always, that the General Prisons Board shall not, except in respect of land contiguous to a prison, and required for the purpose of enlarging a prison or rendering it more commodious or safe, put in force the provisions of the said Acts with respect to the purchase of land otherwise than by agreement.
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