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LAND ACQUISITION AND COMPENSATION (NORTHERN



65.(1) Without prejudice to the power of the Ministry of Finance (in this and
the following Article referred to as "the Ministry") under section 5(1) of the
Stormont Regulation and Government Property Act (Northern Ireland) 1933 to
purchase by agreement or take on lease any land required for the purpose of
any functions of the Ministry or for the administration of any public service
in Northern Ireland, the Ministry may acquire compulsorily, in accordance with
the following provisions of this Article, any land required for that purpose
or for the administration of any such service.

(2) Where in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph (1) the Ministry
desires to acquire any land compulsorily, the Ministry may make an order (in
this Article referred to as a "vesting order") vesting the land in the
Ministry.

(3) Schedule 6 to the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 shall,
subject to the modifications thereof specified in Schedule 1 to this Order,
apply for the purposes of the acquisition of land by means of a vesting order
made under this Article in the same manner as it applies to the acquisition of
land by means of a vesting order made under that Act.

(4) The power to make a vesting order in respect of land

(a)which is the property of any public body which has power under any
transferred provision to acquire land compulsorily; or

(b)which is declared by or under any transferred provision to be inalienable;

(5) Nothing in this Article shall have effect to confer power on the Ministry
to acquire compulsorily any land for the purposes of any instrument under
which the Ministry acts as trustee.



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