Section 4 Powers as to land.

any land required by them for discharging any of the functions exercisable by them respectively under the preceding provisions of this Act; and

in the case of the designated Minister, any land required by any other Minister or any local or police authority for discharging any functions exercisable under the preceding provisions of this Act by that other Minister or that authority,

as if paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one thereof (which refers to the compulsory purchase of land by the Minister of Transport under certain enactments) included a reference to any compulsory purchase of land by the designated Minister under this subsection;

as if this Act had been in force immediately before the commencement of that Act; and

as if references in that Act to the confirming authority were references to the designated Minister.

the powers conferred by this subsection shall be exercisable subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed by regulations to be made by the designated Minister, and to such provisions as to compensation as may be so prescribed; and

in no event shall the said powers be exercised unless the designated Minister or local authority, as the case may be, is or are satisfied that the shelter will not so obstruct the highwayroad as substantially to diminish the utility of the highwayroad to the public.

shall, if so required, produce some duly authenticated document showing his authority;

shall not demand admission as of right to any land which is occupied unless twenty-four hours’ notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier.

any person who, in compliance with the provisions of this section, is admitted into a factory or workplace, discloses, otherwise than in the performance of his duty, to any person any information obtained by him in the factory or workplace with regard to any manufacturing process or trade secret; or

any person to whom, by reason of his official position, any information obtained as aforesaid is disclosed, discloses, otherwise than in the performance of his duty, that information to any person,

for the references to the M3Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946, and to subsection (1) of section eight thereof, there shall respectively be substituted references to the M4Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947, and to subsection (1) of section seven thereof; and

in subsection (5), for the words from “section 9” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words F4“section 10 of the M5Police (Scotland) Act 1967 on police authorities to acquire compulsorily land required for the purposes of their functions under that Act”.