Clause 151

Any authority may, by its officers, employees, agents or contractors, enter upon any land adjoining to or being within the distance of one hundred yards of any works by this Ordinance authorised to be made, for the purpose of depositing upon such land any soil, gravel, sand, lime, brick, stone or other materials or for any other purposes connected with the formation of the said works without making any previous payment, tender or deposit, doing as little damage as may be in the exercise of the several powers hereby granted and making compensation for such temporary occupation or temporary damage of the said land to the owner and occupier thereof from time to time and as often as any such temporary occupation is taken or any such temporary damage done and making compensation to the owner also for the permanent injury, if any, to such land.

If any dispute arises touching the amount or apportionment of such compensation, the same shall be settled in the manner provided by section 154 of this Ordinance.

Before any authority makes any such temporary use as aforesaid of the land adjoining or lying near to the said works, it shall give seven days’ notice of its intention to the owners and occupiers of such land and shall set apart by sufficient fences so much of the land as is required to be used as aforesaid from the other land adjoining thereto.