32 Application of Defence Acts to acquisitions by virtue of Part II. U.K.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this and the next succeeding section, the provisions of the Defence Acts specified in the Schedule to this Act shall have effect as if references in whatever terms to the principal officers of Her Majesty’s ordnance or to the Secretary of State for the War Department or to the ordnance department included references to the Minister of War Transport . . . F1 and the Minister of Works and to their respective departments, so as to confer on those Ministers any powers, rights or privileges in relation to the acquisition of land by virtue of Part II of this Act and in relation to the holding, management, use and disposal in any manner of land so acquired, which under the said provisions are vested in the Secretary of State for War as respects land which, apart from the said Part II, he has power to acquire under the Defence Acts.
(2)Subject to the provisions of this and the next succeeding section, the Defence Acts shall, in relation to the said Ministers and to any Minister who, apart from the said Part II, has power to acquire land under the Defence Acts, have effect as if any acquisition by virtue of the said Part II were an acquisition under those Acts for the purposes of the department of the Minister in question or the defence of the realm.
(3)Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, nothing in section fourteen of the M1Defence Act, 1842 (which provides for the resale, free of incumbrances of land acquired under that Act) . . . F2, shall enable any land acquired by virtue of Part II of this Act to be disposed of free from any restriction as to user of that land or as to building thereon.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 11 Pt. II
F2Words repealed by S.I. 1964/488
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ministry of War Transport dissolved on 1st April 1946 and functions of Minister now exercisable by Secretary of State: S.R. & O. 1946/375 (Rev. XV, p. 229: 1946 I, p. 1009), S.I. 1953/1204 (1953 I, p. 1225), 1959/1768 (1959 I, p. 1793) and 1970/1681
C2Functions of Minister of Works now exercisable by Secretary of State; S.I. 1962/1549 and 1970/1681
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