{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inland-navigation-act-northern-ireland-1954/section-3",
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  "legislation": "apni/1954/1",
  "legislation_title": "Inland Navigation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inland-navigation-act-northern-ireland-1954",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Acquisition of land, etc., by the Ministry under s.2.",
  "text": "(1) The Ministry, where it desires to acquire otherwise than by agreement any land or any such right or interest as is referred to in paragraph ( b) of sub-section (2) of the last preceding section, shall have power to make an order (in this Act referred to as a “vesting order” ) vesting such land, right or interest in the Ministry.\n[(2 For the purposes of this section, paragraphs (3) and (4) of Article 10 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Drainage (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 1973 NI 1 shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1973 NI 1"
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  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1954/1/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:39.566389+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."
}