82.—(1) Whenever the Minister compulsorily acquires permanently any land under the powers in that behalf conferred on him by the Shannon Electricity Act, 1925 (No. 26 of 1925), the Minister may, if the person who was the occupier of such land immediately before such acquisition so agrees, provide for such occupier alternative accommodation in land in lieu and stead of the price or compensation or part thereof payable by the Minister to such occupier under the said Act.

(2) The acquisition of land by the Minister for the purpose of providing alternative accommodation under this section shall, for the purposes of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Shannon Electricity Act, 1925 be deemed to be authorised by that Act and accordingly land may be acquired for that purpose by the Minister under the said section 4 and land so acquired shall be deemed to be acquired under the said Act and the said Act shall apply accordingly.

(3) Whenever the Minister provides alternative accommodation under this section for an occupier of land such alternative accommodation shall be vested in such occupier subject to the trusts, charges, liabilities, and encumbrances to which the land compulsorily acquired from such occupier was subject immediately before its acquisition by the Minister.

(4) For the purpose of the application of this section to the provision of alternative accommodation in the case of land held by a local authority for the purposes of the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883 to 1919, which is compulsorily acquired permanently by the Minister under the powers in that behalf conferred on him by the Shannon Electricity Act, 1925, such local authority shall be deemed to be the occupier of such land, and the Minister may erect on the land provided as alternative accommodation for such local authority under this section cottages similar so far as may be practicable in structure and in all other respects to the cottages erected on the land held by such local authority for the purposes aforesaid and so compulsorily acquired as aforesaid by the Minister, and the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883 to 1919, shall apply to the land so provided as alternative accommodation under this section in like manner in all respects as they applied to the land so compulsorily acquired by the Minister immediately before such acquisition.