14 Injurious affection connected with certain land held by local authorities and acquired by agreement before 1st April 1974

14  Injurious affection connected with certain land held by local authorities and acquired by agreement before 1st April 1974

(1)     Where an interest in land is held by a local authority for a purpose for which the authority can by virtue of an enactment be authorised to acquire land compulsorily and—

(a)     the interest was acquired by agreement by the authority or another body before 1st April 1974 and, where it was acquired by another body, has not since the acquisition been transferred otherwise than by an Act or an order made under an Act; and

(b)     provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts or the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 apply to the acquisition but those provisions do not include section 68 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (under which there is among other things a right to compensation in respect of land injuriously affected by certain works) or section 10 of the said Act of 1965 (which re-enacts the said section 68),

the authority may by resolution provide that, on and after the date when the resolution comes into force, the said section 68 or as the case may be the said section 10 shall be included among the provisions

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