Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891

Powers of Land Commissioners. 48 & 49 Vict. c. 73. 44 & 45 Vict. c. 49.

29.(1) Nothing in section seventeen of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, shall be deemed to limit the jurisdiction of any member of the Land Commission under Part V. of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, and the Acts amending the same, and anything done by any member of the Land Commission in carrying the said Acts into effect shall be as valid and effectual as if it were done by the Land Commission. . . . . Provided also that any order of the Land Commission in carrying the said Acts into effect shall, in the first instance, be made by a Commissioner sitting alone.

[Sub-s. (2) rep. 59 & 60 Vict. c. 47. s. 52.]

(3) The commissioners appointed under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, shall thereupon have the same jurisdiction as if they had then been appointed, under the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, members of the Land Commission, other than the Judicial Commissioner, notwithstanding that no order may have been made by the Lord Lieutenant under section seventeen of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885.

(4) Provided also that, if it shall appear to the Lord Lieutenant that the security for any advance under this Act sanctioned by the decision of a single commissioner is inadequate, he may require the case to be reheard by three commissioners in the manner provided by this section.

(5) The general rules and orders which shall be in force at the commencement of this Act in relation to the acquisition of land by tenants shall, until expressly varied by rules to be made as hereinafter provided, remain and be in force in all proceedings under the Land Purchase Acts, as amended by this Act, in the same manner in all respects as if they had been rules made under this Act.

(6) All rules to be made by the Land Commission for carrying into effect the Land Purchase Acts, as amended by this Act, shall be made by a majority of the commissioners, which majority shall include the Judicial Commissioner.