What the official record says
This Act is the Public Works (Offer Back of and Compensation for Acquired Land) Amendment Act . This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. This Act amends the Public Works Act 1981. The purposes of this Act are to— ensure that former owners of land who have been deprived of that land by the Crown for the purposes of a public work are given the first right of refusal to purchase that land where the Crown no longer requires it for the particular public work for which it was originally acquired; and provide for payments for former owners of land deprived of their land for public works purposes for which the land was never actually used; and provide for the descendants of the former owners to exercise the rights set out in of this section, where