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Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946

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5Provisions as to inquiries.

(1)For the purposes of the execution of his powers and duties under this Act, a Minister may cause to be held such public local inquiries as are directed by this Act and such other public local inquiries as he may think fit.

(2)Subsections (2) and (3) of section two hundred and ninety of the Local Government Act, 1933 (which relate to the giving of evidence on inquiries) and in relation to a proposed acquisition of land by a local authority, or to the proposed extinction of a right of way over land acquired or proposed to be acquired by a local authority, subsections (4) and (5) of that section (which relate to the defraying of costs of inquiries) shall apply to a public local inquiry held in pursuance of this Act as they apply to the inquiries mentioned in subsection (1) of the said section two hundred and ninety, but with the substitution for references to a department of references to a Minister.

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