CIVIL DEFENCE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1950 - SECT 4 Powers as to land.

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CIVIL DEFENCE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1950 - SECT 4

Powers as to land.

4.(1) Where it appears to the Ministry to be necessary or expedient for the
purpose of giving effect to any of the provisions of this Act that any land
should be acquired, the Ministry may acquire, whether by agreement or
compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of the next succeeding
sub-section, that land and any easements or rights in or over any land
adjacent thereto.

(2) The Ministry shall, where it desires to acquire otherwise than by
agreement any such land, easement, or right as aforesaid, have power to make
an order (in this Act referred to as a "vesting order") vesting such land,
easement or right (as the case may be) in it and the provisions of [paragraphs
(3) and (4) or Article 10 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Drainage (Northern
Ireland) Order 1973], shall, with the modifications thereof specified in the
next succeeding sub-section, apply for the purpose of the making of
vesting orders under this section, and shall have effect in relation to every
vesting order so made, as if the said provisions as so modified were
incorporated in this Act and in terms made applicable thereto.

(3) The said provisions as applied for the purpose aforesaid shall have effect
as if

(a)references therein to the Ministry of Agriculture were references to the
Ministry;

<[(b)references therein to the said Order were references to this Act; and


(c)references therein to Article 10 of that Order were references to this
section.]

(4) Any person duly authorised in that behalf by the Ministry shall have a
right to enter any land at all reasonable hours for the purpose of inspecting
that or any other land with a view to ascertaining whether or not anything
ought to be constructed or done thereon or any use made thereof for
civil defence purposes:

Provided that a person proposing to exercise a power of entry conferred under
this section

(a)shall, if so required, produce some duly authenticated document showing his
authority;

(b)shall not demand admission as of right to any land which is occupied unless
twenty-four hours' notice of the intended entry has been given to the
occupier.

(5) If

(a)any person who, in compliance with the provisions of this section, is
admitted into a factory or workplace, discloses, otherwise than in the
performance of his duty, to any person any information obtained by him in the
factory or workplace with regard to any manufacturing process or trade secret;
or

(b)any person to whom, by reason of his official position, any information
obtained as aforesaid is disclosed, discloses, otherwise than in the
performance of his duty, that information to any person;

Civil defence obligations of certain persons.

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CIVIL DEFENCE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1950 - SECT 4