Camps Act 1939 (c. 22)

(1) With a view to promoting the construction, maintenance and management of camps of a permanent character, payments may, with the consent of the Treasury, be made out of moneys provided by Parliament to each of two companies recognised for the purposes of this section, one for England and Wales and one for Scotland, being companies not trading for profit the objects of which include the construction, maintenance and management of such camps; and the companies so recognised are hereinafter referred to as recognised companies. (2) The said companies shall be recognised, and such payments as aforesaid shall be made to them, by the appropriate Minister. (3) Payments made under this section may be by way of grant or loan and shall be made upon such terms and conditions as may be determined by the appropriate Minister with the consent of the Treasury: Provided that the sum of the grants made under this section and of the amounts outstanding in respect of the principal of any loans made thereunder shall not at any time exceed in the aggregate one million two hundred thousand pounds. (4) In this section the expression “the appropriate Minister”, . . . F1 , in relation to the company recognised for Scotland and payments made to that company, means the [ F2 Secretary of State ] . (5) All sums received in repayment of the principal of any loan made under this section or in respect of any interest on any such loan shall be paid into the Exchequer. Textual Amendments F1 Words spent F2 Words substituted by virtue of Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20) , s. 1(6)(b)

(1) A recognised company may be authorised . . . F3 by the [ F4 Secretary of State ] (hereinafter referred to as “ the Minister ”) to purchase land compulsorily for the purposes of their functions in connection with the construction, maintenance and management of camps and also any land reasonably necessary for the preservation of the amenities of any land acquired or proposed to be acquired for such purposes. [ F5 (2) The M1 Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Scotland Act 1947, shall have effect as if any reference therein to a local authority (except the references thereto in subsection (2) of section one, in section two and in paragraph 9 of the First Schedule) included a reference to a recognised company. ] (4) Where a recognised company are authorised by an order confirmed under this section to purchase land compulsorily, then, at any time after notice to treat has been served, the company may, after giving to the owner and to the occupier of the land not less than fourteen days’ notice, enter on and take possession of the land or such part thereof as is specified in the notice, without previous consent or compliance with sections [ F6 eighty-three to eighty-eight of the M2 Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 ] , but subject to the payment of the like compensation for the land of which possession is taken, and interest on the compensation awarded, as would have been payable if those provisions had been complied with. (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7 Textual Amendments F3 Words repealed by Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 53) , Sch. 8 F4 Words substituted by virtue of s. 7(a) of this Act and Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20) , s. 1(6)(b) F5 s. 2(2) substituted for s. 2(2)(3) by s. 7(b) of this Act and Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 53) , Sch. 8 F6 Words substituted by virtue of s. 7(a) of this Act F7 S. 2(5) repealed by Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963 (c. 51) , Sch. 4 Marginal Citations M1 1947 c. 42 . M2 1845 c. 19 .