before reporting or advising shall, if they see fit, give public notice and permit any persons affected or- likely to be affected and any authority or body of persons authorised to make applications under this Act to place their views before them, either in writing or orally.
(4) Any order of the Minister under this section shall be complied with by any railway company to which the order relates, and in the event of noncompliance shall (subject as herein before provided) be enforceable by order of the Railway and Canal Commission on the application of the Minister in any of the ways referred to in section three of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854[1], or section six of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1873[2].
Power to make orders as to acquiston of land, &c.
17. For enabling railway companies to effect alterations, extensions, and improvements of existing works in pursuance of an order of the Railway and Canal Commission or the Minister under this Part of this Act, the Minister may make any such order authorising the acquisition of land or easements and the construction of works as could have been made under paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section three of the Ministry of Transport Act, 1919, for the purposes specified in that paragraph, and that paragraph and section twenty-nine of the same Act, other than the proviso to subsection (3) of that section and the rules made under that section, and the regulations contained in the Second Schedule to the same Act shall, so far as they relate to railways, apply accordingly.
Power to confirm agreements for the purchase, lease or working of railways.
18. Where an agreement has been or may hereafter be entered into for the purchase, lease, or working by agreements one railway company of any part of the system of for the purchase, lease, another railway company, the Minister may, by order, or working confirm the agreement, and where any such agreement of railways. has been so confirmed it shall be lawful for the companies to carry the agreement into effect:
Provided that, before confirming any such agreement, the Minister shall comply with the provisions of section twenty-nine of, and the Second Schedule to, the Ministry of Transport Act, 1919, including any rules made under the said section; and the said section, schedule, and rules shall apply to the confirmation of any such agreement in like manner as they apply to the making of an order under
