9 Principal officers may purchase lands, &c. and take leases on behalf of the Crown.U.K.
It shall be lawful for the said principal officers for the time being of Her Majesty’s ordnance from time to time to contract for and purchase, for and on behalf of Her Majesty any messuages, buildings, castles, forts, lines, or other fortifications, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or to take or purchase any lease of the same which shall in their judgment be desirable to be purchased, for and on behalf of the said ordnance or barrack services, or the defence of the realm, upon such terms as to the said principal officers shall seem meet, and to enter into any contracts necessary for that purpose; . . . F1
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F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1874 (No. 2) (c. 96)