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{{rh|264|{{sc|Ch.}} 23.|Public Offices {Westminster) Site Act, 1896||59 &60 {{sc|Vict}}}}{{sidenotes begin}} provisions of this Act, be incorporated with this Act, with the following exceptions and modifications: —

(a.) The provisions relating to the sale of superfluous land and access to the special Act and section one hundred and thirty-three of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (relating to land tax and poor rate) shall not be incorporated with this Act:

(b.) In the construction of this Act, and of the incorporated Acts, this Act shall be deemed to be the "special Act," and the Commissioners shall be deemed to be the " promoters of the undertaking:"

(c.) The bond required by section eighty-five of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be under the common seal of the Commissioners, and shall be sufficient without the addition of the sureties mentioned in that section:

(d.) All claims for compensation made upon the Commissioners under this Act, or any Act incorporated herewith, shall, if the person claiming has no greater interest in the land in respect of which compensation is claimed, than as tenant from year to year, or as a leaseholder for any term of which not more than eighteen months remain unexpired at the time at which the claim is made, be determined in manner provided by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845.

(2.) The powers of the Commissioners for the compulsory purchase of land under this Act shall cease after the expiration of three years from the passing of this Act.

3. So much of the land delineated on the deposited plans and described in the deposited book of reference as is at the passing of this Act vested in the Commissioners for the purposes of the Westminster Bridge Act, 1853, and shall be required by the Commissioners for the purposes of this Act, shall by virtue of this Act, vest in the Commissioners for the purposes of this Act.

4. Any of the land acquired by or vested in the Commissioners under this Act which is subject to land tax at the time it is acquired or vested shall continue so subject.

Provided that if the Commissioners redeem the land tax on land which is acquired or vested under this Act and is made a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large, no sum shall be assessed or charged in respect of land tax on any land which is acquired or vested under this Act, and is at the time of the acquisition or vesting a highway so repairable.

5.—(1.) All rights of way, rights of laying down or of continuing any pipes, sewers, or drains, on, through, or under any of the land acquired by or vested in the Commissioners under the provisions of this Act, and all other rights and easements in or relating to that land, shall be extinguished, and all the soil of those ways, and the property in the pipes, sewers, and drains, shall vest in the Commissioners.