Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act 1919
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1919 c. 82 |
| Year | 1919 |
Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919
(9 & 10 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 82.
An Act to facilitate the provision of land in Ireland for men who have served in the Naval, Military, or Air Forces of the Crown in the present war, and for other purposes incidental thereto.
[23rd December 1919]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with 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 Provision of holdings for sailors and soldiers under the Land Purchase Acts.
(1) Advances under the Land Purchase Acts for the purchase of parcels of estates or untenanted land vested in the Land Commission may be made to any men who have served in any of His Majesty's naval, military, or air forces in the the present war, and who satisfy the Estates Commissioners as to their fitness and suitability, in like manner as if they were tenants or proprietors of holdings not exceeding ten pounds in rateable value.
(2) Where the Estates Commissioners certify to the Lord Lieutenant that any land not being land vested in the Land Commission is required by the Estates Commissioners wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing holdings for any such men, then—
(a ) If the land is or forms part of an estate or untenanted land agreed to be sold to the Land Commission or Congested Districts Board under the Land Purchase Acts, the Lord Lieutenant may cause the sale to be expedited in accordance with regulations to be made for the purpose under section four of the Irish Land Act, 1909 , and also in the case of an estate or untenanted land agreed to be sold to the Board, may, after consultation with the Board, direct that the sale, either as respects the whole of the estate or untenanted land, or as respects any part or parts thereof, shall be transferred from the Board to the Commission, and in that event the sale, as so transferred, shall be carried out and completed by the Commission in the prescribed manner; and
(b ) If the land is land vested in the Congested Districts Board, the Lord Lieutenant may, after consultation with the Board, require the Board to sell, and the Land Commission to purchase the same or any part thereof on such terms as may be agreed upon with the approval of the Treasury or, in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Lord Lieutenant with the approval of the Treasury, and the land so purchased shall be transferred accordingly from the Board to the Commission in the prescribed manner; and
(c ) If the land is land which is not vested in the Congested Districts Board and is not the subject of an agreement for sale under the Land Purchase Acts, the Lord Lieutenant may (whether the land is or is not situated in a congested districts county, but, in the case of land so situated, after consultation with the Congested Districts Board), authorise the Land Commission to purchase the same, and thereupon the provisions of those Acts as to the purchase of estates by the Land Commission shall apply as respects the land in like manner as if it were a congested estate, the purchase of which is required for the purpose of relieving congestion, and as if the certificate under this section were a certificate under subsection (4) of section six of the Irish Land Act., 1903 :
Provided that, in any case where the price of the land is fixed by the Judicial Commissioner under section sixty-three of the Irish Land Act, 1909, the Land Commission may, if they think fit, on serving such notice within such time as may be prescribed, withdraw from the purchase.
(3) Section fifty-eight of the Irish Land Act, 1909, shall not apply to any purchase of land which is directed or authorised by the Lord Lieutenant under this section.
(4) Pending the resale of any land which the Land Commission propose to re-sell to such men as aforesaid, the Commission shall have power to manage and let the land in such manner as they think advisable.
(5) Section ninety-one of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 , is hereby incorporated with this section, and in construing the said section as so incorporated this Act shall be deemed to be the special Act, and the Estates Commissioners shall be deemed to be the promoters of the undertaking.
(6) The Judicial Commissioner and Estates Commissioners may make rules for carrying into effect...
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