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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
(2.) The approval of the Local Government Board to any scheme under this section may be given either absolutely or conditionally and after the Local Government Board have approved of any such scheme they may from time to time approve either absolutely or conditionally of any modifications in the scheme.
(3.) Every scheme under this section shall contain provisions prescribing the time within which it shall be carried out and shall require the new dwellings proposed to be provided under the scheme to be completed fit for occupation before the persons residing in the houses in respect of which the scheme is made are displaced:,
Provided that the Local Government Board may dispense with the last-mentioned requirement subject to such conditions (if any) as they may see fit.
(4.) Any provisions of any scheme under this section. or any conditions subject to which the Local Government Board may have approved of any scheme or of any modifications of any scheme or subject to which they may have dispensed with the
above mentioned requirement shall be enforceable by a writ of Mandamus to be obtained by the Local Government Board out of the High Court.
(5.) If the Corporation acquire or appropriate any house or houses under the powers by this Act granted in contravention of the foregoing provisions or displace or cause to be displaced the persons residing in any house or houses in contravention of the requirements of the scheme they shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred pounds in respect of every such house which penalty shall be recoverable by the Local Government Board by action in the High Court and shall be carried to and form part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom Provided that the court may if it think fit reduce such penalty.
(6.) For the purpose of carrying out any scheme under this section the Corporation may appropriate any lands for the time being belonging to them or which they have power to acquire :
Provided that nothing in this section shall relieve the Corporation from the necessity of obtaining the approval of the Local Government Board for such appropriation or use of their corporate land as would require such approval under the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 (as amended by section 72 of the Local Government
Act 1888) or any other general Act.
(7.) Subject to the provisions of this section the Corporation and the Local Government Board and their inspectors shall have and may exercise for any purpose in connexion with any scheme under this section all or any of the powers vested in them under the Public Health Act 1875 in the same manner in every respect as if the
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