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Amendment of procedure for confirming improvement scheme.
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5.—(1) Section seven of the principal Act shall have effect as if the words “in the month of September or October or November” were omitted from paragraph (a), and as if the words “during the thirty days next following the date of the last publication of the advertisement” were substituted for the words “during the month next following the month in which such advertisement is published” in paragraph (b).
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(2) The order of a confirming authority under subsection four of section eight of the principal Act shall, notwithstanding anything in that section, take effect without confirmation by Parliament—
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(a) if land is not proposed to be taken compulsorily; or
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(b) if, although land is proposed to be taken compulsorily, the confirming authority, before making the order, are satisfied that notice of the draft order has been served as required as respects a Provisional Order by subsection five of the said section eight, and also that the draft order has been published in the London Gazette, and that a petition against the draft order has not been presented to the confirming authority by any owner of land proposed to be taken compulsorily within two months after the date of the publication and the service of notice, or, having been so presented, has been withdrawn.
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(3) For the purposes of the principal Act, the making of an order by a confirming authority, which takes effect under this section without confirmation by Parliament, shall have the same effect as the confirmation of the order by Act of Parliament, and any reference to a Provisional Order, made under section eight of the principal Act, shall include a reference to an order which so takes effect without confirmation by Parliament.
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