Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1945

34 Power to acquire particular levels only and reversionary interests.U.K.

(1) . . . F1, the surface of any land may be acquired under the Defence Acts without the minerals or subjacent strata or any part thereof and (subject to the provisions of [F2section 10(3) of the Coal Industry Act 1994]) the minerals or subjacent strata or any part thereof may be acquired under those Acts without the surface.

(2)Without prejudice to any power in that behalf exercisable under the Defence Acts apart from this section, where a Minister or any person on behalf of a Minister is in possession of any land under a lease or tenancy . . . F1, any interest reversionary thereon may be acquired under the Defence Acts.

Textual Amendments

F2Words in s. 34(1) substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 67, Sch. 9 para. 2 (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2