To provide and carry out advisory policy, and regulatory activities, undertakings, and services:

To operate a successful business enterprise:

To undertake the performance of all such other functions as are necessary for the due and proper administration of this Act, and the enactments specified in the Seventh Schedule to this Act.

To investigate, design, establish, construct, manage, operate, and maintain any activity or undertaking in relation to any public work or any matter which is ancillary to any public work:

To prepare reports, tender advice or recommendations, and provide consultancy services in relation to any public work or any matter which is ancillary to any public work:

To prepare reports and tender advice or recommendations to, and provide consultancy services for, the Minister or other Government agencies or any other person in terms of the functions of the Ministry:

To enter any activity or undertaking related to the efficient and orderly development and use of natural resources, including a consideration of conservation requirements, cost effectiveness, and such other matters as may be relevant:

To promote the purposes of the Town and Country Planning Act 1977 and to provide technical, advisory, research, and administrative services as required in relation thereto:

To provide technical, advisory, research, and administrative services to the National Water and Soil Conservation Authority, the National Roads Board, and any committees appointed by the Minister under section 11 of this Act:

To assemble, consider, report on, and disseminate information on the activities of the building and construction industry:

To promote and conduct research and development relevant or ancillary to the functions of the Ministry or to acquire intellectual property and copyright and to formulate, implement, and review policies and procedures in relation to such activities and generally to deal in intellectual property and copyright to the best advantage of the Ministry.

“For any person, organisation, or government; and

For valuable consideration—

To carry out inspections appropriate to the functions of the Ministry and ensure compliance with any legal requirements or standards appropriate to any such inspection:

To investigate, co-ordinate, and provide assistance to any local authority or person for district, regional, or maritime planning and to take such action as may be necessary to achieve or promote the objectives of the Town and Country Planning Act 1977:

To assemble information relating to the activities of the building and construction industry as a whole and to consider and report on the demands being made on the industry and the relation of such demands to available and potential resources:

To direct any activity or undertaking, whether a public work or not, in relation to the orderly and efficient use or development of natural resources:

To lodge tenders and enter into any contracts or arrangements with any person on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon to facilitate the functions of the Ministry:

To carry out any activity or undertaking jointly with any other person, body corporate, firm, partnership, or joint venture:

To acquire any land, buildings, or structures required to carry out any of the functions specified in section 6 of this Act and to administer, develop, improve, transfer, or dispose of such property:

To acquire or hire personal property, including plant, stores, and equipment necessary to the performance of any activity or undertaking, and dispose of such property when no longer required or when commercially practicable:

With the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, to subscribe for, purchase, or otherwise acquire, and sell or otherwise dispose of, shares, stocks, or interests, and otherwise participate in, any body corporate, firm, partnership, or joint venture having power to engage in any activity or undertaking which is the same as or similar to or ancillary to the functions specified in section 6 of this Act:

To exercise all of the rights and powers of the Crown as the holder of any snares, stocks, and interests in any undertaking specified in paragraph (i) of this subsection:

To acquire, dispose of, make application for registered protection in respect of, or otherwise deal in, intellectual property and copyright (whether Crown copyright or not) and whether arising from research and development within the Ministry or otherwise howsoever.”

The Minister or the local authority has issued a notice under section 18(1)(a) of this Act in respect of the land; or

The execution has been completed of every portion of the work which will affect the amount of the land of that person which will have to be taken for the work or which will injuriously affect or damage the land of that person; or

The Minister or local authority and the owner of the land to be taken for any work have agreed to the land being taken and to the compensation being assessed in accordance with this Part of this Act.

The Minister or local authority has not indicated in writing the intention to proceed with the acquisition of the claimant’s land; or

The notice given under section 18(1)(a) of this Act has not been withdrawn or has not lapsed,—

An agreement by the claimant to the claimant’s estate or interest in that land being taken, subject to subsection (7) of this section and subject to the compensation to be paid being left to be determined under this Part of this Act; or

A withdrawal of the notice given in respect of the claimant’s land under section 18(1)(a) of this Act.

Operate to automatically withdraw any objection made by the claimant under section 23 of this Act to the taking of the same land; and

Prevent the commencement or prosecution of any proceedings by or on behalf of the claimant to prevent or delay the execution of the work or the taking of the land which is the subject of the requirement or claim made under this section.

It was devised or developed in the course of the duties of the officer or employee; or

It was devised or developed wholly or principally by or through the use of resources provided by the Crown—