Lands for Public Purposes Acquisition Act 1914.
An Act to provide for the acquisition by the Crown of lands for public purposes, and for purposes consequent thereon and incidental thereto.
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This Act provides for the acquisition of lands for public purposes, meaning any purpose declared by the Governor to be a public purpose. Public purposes include: the providing of offices and other buildings and premises for carrying on the Government of the said State or any Department or Departments of the Government of the said State; any work or undertaking which the Government of the said State are by any Act or law empowered to carry out, but for which there is no power (except this Act) to acquire land and any purpose which both Houses of Parliament, during the same or different sessions of any Parliament, resolve shall be a public purpose within the meaning of this Act.
