Osborne Estate Act 1902
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1902 c. 37 |
| Year | 1902 |
Osborne Estate Act, 1902
(2 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 37.
An Act to make provision with respect to the disposition and management of His Majesty's Osborne Estate in the Isle of Wight.
[18th December 1902]
W HEREAS the Osborne estate in the Isle of Wight is, under the will of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, vested in His Majesty the King for his life, with remainder to the Prince of Wales for his life, with remainder to his first and other sons according to seniority in tail general, with divers remainders over, and with an ultimate remainder to His Majesty the King, His heirs and assigns for ever:
And whereas His Majesty has, with the concurrence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, signified His gracious pleasure that, on the occasion of His Coronation, the Osborne estate should be handed over so as to become part of the public property of the Sovereign, and that provision should be made for the use of Osborne House and grounds, as a memorial to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, in manner provided by this Act:
And whereas duplicate plans describing the Osborne estate (herein-after referred to as ‘the deposited plans’) have been deposited with the Clerk of the Parliaments and with the Clerk of the House of Commons:
Be it therefore 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:
1 Osborne estate to be part of the hereditary revenues of the Crown.
(1) The estate described on the deposited plans, and in this Act referred to as the Osborne estate, shall, by virtue of this Act, become vested in His Majesty in right of the Crown, and shall cease to be part of the private estates of the Sovereign.
(2) Section one of the Civil List Act, 1901 (which relates to the payment of the hereditary revenues to the Exchequer), shall apply to the Osborne estate.
(3) The Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1894, shall apply to the Osborne estate, but the part of the estate, coloured blue on the deposited plans (being Osborne House and grounds adjacent thereto) and the part of the estate coloured yellow on the deposited plan (being, Barton House and grounds) shall be under the management of the Commissioners of Works as if it had been committed to their management under section twenty-two of the Crown Lands Act, 1851; and arrangements may at...
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