Turbary (Ireland) Act 1891
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1891 c. 45 |
| Year | 1891 |
Turbary (Ireland) Act, 1891.
(54 & 55 Vict.) CHAPTER 45.
An Act to provide for and regulate the user by purchasing tenants of Rights of Turbary.
[5th August 1891]
Be it 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:
1 Purchase of bog by Land Commission.
(1)1.—(1.) Where any tenants of holdings on an estate have agreed to purchase their holdings, the Land Commission may, if the landlord agrees to sell any bog on the estate, purchase the same for the benefit of any tenants or purchasers of holdings on the estate who have been accustomed to exercise, whether as of right or by permission, any privilege of turbary over any bog on the estate, or for the benefit of any other tenants or purchasers of holdings on such estate and of other inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
(2) (2.) The amount of the purchase money and costs shall be defrayed as part of the expenses of the Land Commission, and all sums received by the land Commission in respect of bogs purchased in pursuance of this section shall, if directed by the Treasury, be applied as an appropriation in aid of money provided by Parliament for the expenses of the Land Commission, and, so far as not so directed, shall be paid into the Exchequer.
(3) (3.) The Land Commission, before purchasing any bog, shall be reasonably satisfied that they will ultimately realise by means of the bog an amount sufficient to repay the purchase money with interest at the rate of three and one eighth per centum per annum.
2 Grant of privilege of turbary.
2. Where the Land Commission purchase a bog on an estate, and any tenants or purchasers of holdings on the estate have been accustomed, whether as of right or by permission, to exercise any privilege of turbary, the Commission shall grant them that privilege, subject to the provisions herein-after contained as to payment, conditions, and regulations, and, so far as such grants shall not extend, may grant privileges of turbary to the tenants or purchasers of holdings on the estate and to other inhabitants of the neighbourhood, or any of them, and, so far as such grant shall not extend, in every case shall require such payments as the Land Commission consider will, after deducting current expenses, pay off with interest the purchase...
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