Royal Military Asylum Chelsea (Transfer) Act 1884
| Year | 1884 |
Royal Military Asylum Chelsea (Transfer) Act, 1884.
(47 & 48 Vict.) CHAPTER 32.
An Act for transferring the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings.
[28th July 1884]
W HEREAS the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea and the lands and buildings connected therewith and described in the Schedule to this Act are now under the management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues (herein-after termed the Commissioners of Woods), and it is expedient that the same be vested in and placed under the management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings (herein-after termed the Commissioners of Works):
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theRoyal Military Asylum Chelsea (Transfer) Act, 1884.
2 2.
2. From and after the passing of this Act the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea, with the lands and buildings thereon described in the Schedule to this Act, shall by virtue of this Act be vested, free and discharged from the leasehold interest in any part thereof of any one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in the Commissioners of Works and their successors as incorporated by the Works and Public Buildings Act, 1874, for the estate or interest and purposes, and upon the trusts, and subject to the leases (save as aforesaid) rights of way and other rights (if any), for upon and subject to which the said Asylum and premises or any of them were respectively vested in the Crown or any person or persons on behalf of the Crown immediately before the passing of this Act; and the Commissioners of Works shall have the management of the said Asylum and premises, and shall in relation thereto exercise and perform all powers and duties and be subject to all liabilities which would have been exercised and performed by the Commissioners of Woods, or any other person or persons on behalf of the Crown, or to which the Commissioners of Woods, or any other person or persons on behalf of the Crown, would have been subject if this Act had not passed.
3 General saving.
3. Saving always to all persons, bodies politic or...
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