Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845.

This Act makes provision for compulsory purchase of private land by " promoters of the undertaking”, which shall mean the parties, whether company, undertakers, commissioners, trustees, corporations, or private persons, by a special Act empowered to execute an undertaking prescribed by such Act. It concerns, among other things: power to purchase lands by agreement, procedures for purchase, authority to sell and repurchase such lands, arbitration, etc.