{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-buildings-act-1879/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-buildings-act-1879/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/42-43/36",
  "legislation_title": "Customs Buildings Act 1879",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-buildings-act-1879",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Commissioners of Works empowered to purchase lands, &c.",
  "text": "The Commissioners of Works shall, under and subject to the provisions of the Commissioners of Works Act 1852, from time to time purchase, hire, or otherwise acquire such buildings, lands, or other hereditaments as may be necessary for the service of Her Majesty’s Customs within Great Britain, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands; and for the purposes of any such purchase the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 and the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 and the Acts amending the same respectively, except so much thereof as relates to the purchase of land otherwise than by agreement, are hereby incorporated with this Act, the special Act being construed to mean this Act, and the promoters of the undertaking being construed to mean the Commissioners of Works.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1852 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1845 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1845 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/42-43/36/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:28.949552+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}