Government Buildings Act,1899
Act No : 4
Section : EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS FROM MUNICIPAL LAWS TO REGULATE THE ERECTION, ETC., OF BUILDINGS WITHIN MUNICIPALITIES
SECTION 03: EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS FROM MUNICIPAL LAWS TO REGULATE THE ERECTION, ETC., OF BUILDINGS WITHIN MUNICIPALITIES
Nothing contained in any law or enactment for the time being in force to regulate the erection, re-erection, alteration or maintenance of buildings within the limits of any municipality shall apply to any building used or required for the public service or for any public purpose,, which is the property, or in the occupation, of4[the Government], or which is to be erected on land which is the property, or in the occupation, of4[the Government]:
Provided that, where the erection, re-erection, construction or material structural alteration of any such building as aforesaid (not being a building connected with5[* * *] defence; or a building the plan or construction of which ought, in the opinion of6[the Government concerned], to be treated as confidential or secret) is contemplated, reasonable notice of the proposed work shall be given to the municipal authority before it is commenced.
"We have, by means of an alteration in clause 3, confined the operation of the Bill to buildings used or required "for the public service or for any public purpose"; and, in adopting this phrase, we have followed the language of Section 194 of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897(60 and 61 Vict., C. 38). A further amendment has here been made with the object of requiring notice to be given only in the case of material structural alterations; this probably would have been the construction put on the provision as originally drawn, but we think it better to make the point clear. Finally, the latter part of the clause seems to us to go too far, in that it contemplates the giving of notice in the case of all building operations undertaken by the Government. It is clearly necessary that buildings connected with imperial defence, and buildings, the plans or construction of which are of a confidential or secret character should be excluded from the purview of the provision and we have inserted words to effect that purpose."- S.C.R.
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