19Payment of certain contributions, etc., to new town commissions.N.I.
(1)Where, in the exercise of their development functions, a new town commission—
(a)acquire any land; or
(b)carry out any works; or
(c)establish any undertaking,
in such circumstances that, if the land had been acquired, the works carried out or, as the case may be, the undertaking established, by [F1 a district council], a contribution would have been payable in respect thereof under any transferred provision to such a council, that contribution shall be payable by any person authorised in that behalf under any such provision to, and shall be receivable by, the new town commission as if the commission were [F1 a district council].
(2)For the purposes of this section—
(a)“contribution” includes any grant, subsidy or payment;
(b)land shall be deemed to have been acquired for any purpose when it is appropriated by a new town commission for that purpose.
F1SRO (NI) 1973/285