Explanatory note

Section 49 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 empowers the Minister of Transport for development purposes by order to authorise the stopping up or diversion of any highway and the provision or improvement of any other highway. The section also enables the Minister or a local highway authority to be authorised to acquire land for the purposes of such an order. These Regulations make provision for enabling the proceedings relating to the compulsory acquisition of the land to be taken concurrently with the proceedings required to be taken for the purpose of the order under Section 49.