PART II.

Miscellaneous Amendments of the Principal Act and the Act of 1946.

5. —The expression “State aircraft”, where it occurs in the Principal Act or the Act of 1946, shall, in lieu of the meaning assigned to that expression by subsection (1) of section 2 of the Principal Act, mean aircraft of any country used in military, customs and police services.

6. —(1) Section 36 of the Principal Act shall be construed as if there were inserted therein the following new paragraph—

“(c) any purpose related to the development of civil aviation where such development affects an aerodrome which the Minister or a local authority has established or is about to establish or affects any land adjacent to such aerodrome.”

(2) For the avoidance of doubts it is hereby declared that the purposes of Part V of the Principal Act for which land may be acquired by agreement or compulsorily include and always included the establishment of an aerodrome.

7. —Section 37 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion, after the word “approaches” of the words “water supply works and watermains, sewers and sewage disposal works, electric lines, lights, signs”.

8. —(1) In this section the expression “water right” means a right of impounding, diverting or abstracting water.

(2) At any time after the Minister becomes entitled under subsection (1) of section 41 of the Principal Act to acquire compulsorily any land or any water right or to use compulsorily any water right and before conveyance or ascertainment of compensation, the Minister may, subject to the subsequent provisions of this section, enter on and take possession of that land or exercise that water right.

(3) Where the Minister exercises any power conferred on him by subsection (2) of this section in relation to any land or water right, then—

(a) subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection, the Minister shall pay to the person, who is the occupier of that land or the owner of that water right, interest on the amount of the compensation payable to such person at the rate of three per cent. per annum from the date on which such power was exercised until payment of such compensation,

(b) if—

(i) the Minister has made an unconditional offer in writing of any sum as such compensation to such person, and

(ii) the offer is not accepted by such person, and

(iii) the sum awarded as compensation by the official arbitrator to such person does not exceed the sum so offered,

no interest shall be payable on such compensation in respect of any period after the date of the offer.

(4) The Minister shall not—

(a) enter on or take possession of any land under subsection (2) of this section without giving to the occupier thereof at least one month's or, in the case of an occupied dwelling-house, three months' previous notice in writing of his intention to do so, or

(b) exercise any water right under subsection (2) of this section without giving the owner thereof at least one month's previous notice in writing of his intention to do so.

(5) A notice under subsection (4) of this section may be given to any person by sending it by prepaid post in an envelope addressed to that person at his usual or last known address.

(6) Where, for any reason, the envelope mentioned in subsection (5) of this section cannot be addressed in the manner provided by that subsection, it may be addressed to the person for whom it is intended in either or both of the following ways—

(a) by the description “the occupier” or “the owner” (as the case may be) without stating his name,

(b) at the land or the situation of the property to which the notice contained in the envelope relates.

9. —In Part II of the Act of 1946, references to the Chicago Convention shall be construed as including references to any Annex to the Chicago Convention relating to international standards and recommended practices (being an Annex adopted in accordance with the Chicago Convention) and any amendment of any such Annex made in accordance with the Chicago Convention.