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Defence Acts Amendment Act 1873
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1Power of the Secretary of State for War to sell lands, subject to condition as to freedom from obstructions, and to purchase the right to subject lands to such condition.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department may, from time to time as he may deem it expedient, sell any lands vested in him or under his control as such Secretary of State as aforesaid, subject to the condition that such lands are for ever thereafter to he kept free from buildings and other obstructions. Where any lands are sold subject to such condition as aforesaid, the following consequences shall ensue:
Such condition as aforesaid shall he deemed to attach for ever to any lands so sold, and no building or other structure, other than hams, hovels, or other like structures of wood, shall at any time he made or erected on any lands subject to such condition as aforesaid:
The said Secretary of State may at all times, by himself, his officers, agents, servants, and workmen, or any of them, and without payment of any compensation whatever, enter upon any lands subject to such condition as aforesaid, and pull down any present or future buildings or structures (other than as aforesaid) thereon, and cut down or grub up all or any of the trees thereon, and remove or alter all or any of the hanks, fences, hedges, and ditches thereon, and make under-ground or other drains therein, and generally level and clear the said lands, and do all such acts for levelling and clearing the same as may he deemed necessary or proper by the said Secretary of State, hut in such manner, nevertheless, that evidence of the boundaries of the lands held by different owners may he preserved:
It shall not he lawful for any person to alter the level of the said lands, or do any act which may prejudicially affect any work done on the said lands under the authority of the said Secretary of State:
The said Secretary of State may at any time, if he think it expedient so to do, suspend the operation of, or extinguish any such condition as aforesaid when attached to land in pursuance of this Act.
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