Crown Lands Act 1943

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1943 c. 7


Crown Lands Act, 1943

(6 & 7 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 7.

An Act to make the Secretary of State for Scotland a Commissioner of Crown Lands.

[4th February 1943]

Be it enacted by the King'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:—

S-1 Secretary of State for Scotland to be additional Commissioner of Crown Lands.

1 Secretary of State for Scotland to be additional Commissioner of Crown Lands.

1. The Secretary of State for Scotland for the time being shall, by virtue of his office, be a Commissioner of Crown Lands under the Crown Lands Act, 1851, in addition to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Commissioners whom His Majesty has power to appoint under that Act, and any reference to those Commissioners in the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1936, and in any other Act, shall be construed accordingly, but nothing in those Acts shall authorise the payment of a salary to the said Secretary of State in his capacity of Commissioner of Crown Lands, or render him incapable of being elected or of sitting or voting as a member of the House of Commons.

S-2 Short title, citation and construction.

2 Short title, citation and construction.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Crown Lands Act, 1943 .

(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1936, and this Act and those Acts may be cited together as the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1943.

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