(1)Subsection (5) of section sixty-nine of the Local Government Act, 1888, and subsection (1) of section one hundred and twelve of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, which fix respectively the maximum period within which loans by county councils and by councils of boroughs are to be repaid, shall have effect as if for “thirty years ” there were substituted " sixty years. "
(2)A county council may, subject to the approval of the Minister and subject to the like restrictions as are contained in section ninety-five of the [7 Edw. 7. c. 53.] Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, with respect to the appropriation of land by local authorities under that section, appropriate for any purpose for which they are authorised to acquire land any land acquired by the council for some other purpose and not required for that purpose:
Provided that, where powers of appropriation of land are conferred on a county council by any other enactment, nothing in this subsection shall affect the powers under that enactment or dispense with the necessity for complying with any conditions imposed by any such enactment.