Glebe Lands Leasing Powers (Ireland) Act 1857

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Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regina, Vicesimo & Vicesimo Primo. An Act to enable Ecclesiastical Persons inIreland to grant Building Leases of Glebe Lands in certain Cases.

(20 & 21 Vict.) C A P. XLVII.

[17th August 1857]

'WHEREAS it would be for the public Advantage that Ecclesiastical Persons inIreland should be empowered in certain Cases to demise a Portion of their Glebe Lands for Building Purposes:' 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:

S-I Short Title.

I Short Title.

I. In citing this Act for any Purpose it shall be sufficient to use the Expression ‘TheGlebe Lands Leasing Powers (Ireland ) Act, 1857.’

S-II Interpretation of certain Terms.

II Interpretation of certain Terms.

II. In the Construction of this Act the Words ‘Lord Lieutenant’ shall include any Chief Governor or Governors ofIreland ; the Words ‘Successors in Estate’ shall mean the Persons entitled for the Time being, after the Lessor, to the Receipt of the Rents of the Lands comprised in any Lease made under this Act; the Word ‘Lessee’ shall include the personal Representative of any Lessee and his lawful Assigns; the Word ‘Lessor’ shall include the Successors in Estate of any Lessor; the Words ‘Ecclesiastical Person’ shall include Archbishops, Bishops, and all other Ecclesiastical Corporations, sole or aggregate; the Word ‘Town’ shall mean any Borough or Town Corporate in Ireland , and any Town in which a Board of Municipal Commissioners shall have been elected under the Provisions of an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and eight, or in which Town Commissioners shall have been appointed under the Provisions of an Act of the Ninth Year of King, George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-two, or an Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and three, or any Act amending the same.

S-III Ecclesiastical Persons may grant Building Leases.

III Ecclesiastical Persons may grant Building Leases.

III. It shall be lawful for any Ecclesiastical Person inIreland entitled to any Glebe Lands situate within the Limits of any City or Town in Ireland , or within Two Miles thereof, from Time to Time to make Leases of any Part of such Lands for building thereon, either together or in Parcels, for any Term of Years not exceeding Ninety-nine Years, to take effect in possession and not in reversion, or by way of future Interest, subject to the Provisions in this Act contained.

S-IV Best improved Rent to be reserved in Leases.

IV Best improved Rent to be reserved in Leases.

IV. The Rent reserved in any such Lease shall be the best improved yearly Rent that, at the Time of making such Lease, can be obtained or reasonably expected from a solvent Tenant, without taking any Fine or other Consideration of any Kind, and so that no such Lessee be made dispunishable for Waste: Provided always, that it shall be lawful to reserve a reduced Rent for the First Three Years of the Term.

S-V Restrictions on leasing Lands under this Act.

V Restrictions on leasing Lands under this Act.

V. No such Lease shall include the Glebe House, Mansion House, or Place of Residence of any Ecclesiastical Person, or the Demesne, Lands, Garden, or Pleasure Grounds and Appurtenances belonging to or usually occupied therewith, or which may be necessary...

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