This Act may be cited as the Public Works Amendment Act 1964, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Public Works Act 1928 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Subsection (2) of section 104 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 6 of the Public Works Amendment Act 1962) is hereby amended by omitting the words “any claim”, and substituting the words “and except where, before the taking of the land, an agreement fixing the amount of the compensation has been made under section 32 of this Act with the persons having the freehold interest in the land, any agreement fixing the amount of the compensation or any claim for compensation”.