# Housing Act 1957, Section 96: Power of local authority to acquire land for provision of accommodation


A local authority shall have power under this Part of this Act—
(a) to acquire any land, including any houses or buildings thereon, as a site for the erection of houses,
(b) to acquire houses, or buildings which may be made suitable as houses, together with any lands occupied with the houses or buildings, or any estate or interest in houses or in buildings which may be made suitable as houses,
(c) to acquire land (including houses or other buildings) proposed to be used for any purpose authorised by sections ninety-three or ninety-five of this Act, whether or not the land forms part of a site for the erection of houses,
(d) to acquire land for the purpose of the carrying out thereon by them of works for the purpose of, or connected with, the alteration, enlarging, repair or improvement of an adjoining house,
(e) to acquire land for the purpose of the sale or lease of the land under the powers conferred by paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and by subsection (2) of section one hundred and five of this Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/56/section/96 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1957/section-96
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