Settled Land Acts (Amendment) Act 1887
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1887 c. 30 |
| Year | 1887 |
Settled Land Acts (Amendment) Act, 1887
(50 & 51 Vict.) CHAPTER 30.
An Act to amend the Settled Land Act (1882).
[23rd August 1887]
W HEREAS by the twenty-first section of the Settled Land Act, 1882(in this Act referred to as the Act of 1882), it is provided that capital money arising under that Act may be applied in payment for any improvement by that Act authorised:
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 the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Amendment of sec. 21 of the Settled Land Act, 1882.
1. Where any improvement of a kind authorised by the Act of 1882 has been or may be made either before or after the passing of this Act, and a rentcharge, whether temporary or perpetual, has been or may be created in pursuance of any Act of Parliament, with the object of paying off any moneys advanced for the purpose of defraying the expenses of such improvement, any capital money expended in redeeming such rentcharge, or otherwise providing for the payment thereof, shall be deemed to be applied in payment for an improvement authorised by the Act of 1882.
2 Section 28 of Settled Land Act, 1882, to apply to improvements within preceding section.
2. Any improvement in payment for which capital money is applied or deemed to be applied under the provisions of the preceding section shall be deemed to be an improvement within the meaning of section twenty-eight of the Act of 1882, and the provisions of such last-mentioned section shall, so far as applicable, be deemed to apply to such improvement.
3 Short title.
3. This Act shall be construed as one with the Settled Land Act, 1882, and the Settled Land Act, 1884, and may be cited together with those Acts as the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1887, and separately as theSettled Land Acts (Amendment) Act, 1887.
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