THE EXTINGUISHMENT OR MODIFICATION OF EASEMENTS REGULATIONS, 1948.

4.  Sections 25, 26 and 27 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, as amended by the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, and the Schedules, as so amended, referred to in those sections, shall, in connection with the operation of subsection (3) of Section 4 of the Act of 1948, apply with the following adaptations, that is to say:—

(a)in subsection (1) of Section 25, after the words “Where there subsists over land” there shall be added the words “which a Minister has acquired under Part II of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1945, or has power so to acquire, or would have power so to acquire if he did not already own it, or which a Minister having power, otherwise than by virtue of the Part II, to acquire land under the Defence Acts (as defined in the said Act) has so acquired or proposes so to acquire (any such Minister being hereinafter in this section called `the acquiring Minister'), or” ;

(b)in subhead (c) of subsection (1) of Section 27, after the word “Act” there shall be added the words “or under Section 25 of this Act, as applied for the purposes of subsection (3) of Section 4 of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1948,”;

(c)in subhead (e) of paragraph 1 of the Fourth Schedule, there shall be added the words “or of subsection (3) of Section 4 of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1948”;

(d)before the words “the purchasing or appropriating authority” there shall be added the words “the acquiring Minister or”; and

(e)the expression “extinguishment” shall include modification, and the expression “extinguish” shall be construed accordingly.