Supplies and Services (Defence Purposes) Act 1951
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Supplies and Services (Defence Purposes) Act, 1951
(14 & 15 Geo. 6) CHAPTER 25
An Act to extend, for defence purposes and purposes relating to world peace and security, the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945, and Defence Regulations and other instruments having effect by virtue of that Act; and to make provision for the stopping up or diversion of highways for such purposes and for matters incidental thereto.
[26th April 1951]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Purposes of Supplies and Services \(Transitional Powers) Act, 1945, to include defence and maintenance of world peace.
(1) The purposes specified in subsection (1) of section one of the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945, shall be deemed to include, and always to have included, the purposes of—
(a ) providing or securing supplies and services required for the defence of any part of His Majesty's dominions or any territory under His Majesty's protection or in which he has jurisdiction, or for the maintenance or restoration of peace and security in any part of the world, or for any measures arising out of a breach or apprehended breach of peace in any part of the world; and
(b ) preventing supplies or services being disposed of in a manner prejudicial to the defence of any part of His Majesty's dominions or any such territory as aforesaid or to peace and security in any part of the world or to any such measures as aforesaid;
and any reference in any other provision of the said Act, or in any Defence Regulation having effect by virtue of the said Act, or in any order or other instrument made under any such Regulation, to the purposes specified in the said subsection (1) shall be construed accordingly.
(2) Nothing in the said Act or in this section shall be held to authorise the suppression or suspension of any newspaper, periodical, book or other publication.
2 Stopping up of highways for defence purposes.
(1) The Minister of Transport, if he is satisfied that it is urgently necessary for any of the purposes specified in paragraph (a of the preceding section so to do, may by order provide for the stopping up or diversion of any highway passing through—
(a ) any land used or appropriated for use in His Majesty's service, or
(b ) any land used or appropriated for the performance of any services designated by a Secretary of State or the Admiralty or the Minister of Supply, being services appearing to him or them to be essential for any of the purposes aforesaid, or
(c ) any land adjoining or lying close to any such land as aforesaid.
(2) Not less than twenty-one days before making any such order, the Minister of Transport shall publish in at least one local newspaper circulating in the area in which the highway is situated and in the London Gazette a notice stating the effect of the order, and shall serve a copy of the notice on every local authority in whose area the highway is situated and on any water, hydraulic power, gas or electricity undertakers having any cables, mains, pipes or wires laid along, across or under the highway, and shall cause a copy thereof to be displayed in a prominent position at both ends of so much of the highway as is proposed to be stopped up or diverted.
A notice may be served under this subsection on any such undertakers by delivering it to their secretary or clerk at their registered or principal office, or sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to their secretary or clerk at that office.
(3) Where an order has been or is proposed to be made under subsection (1) of this...
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