Derelict Sites Act, 1961

Form and effect of vesting orders and registration of title acquired thereunder under the Registration of Title Acts, 1891 and 1942.

10.—(1) Every vesting order by which a local authority acquire any land shall be in the prescribed form and shall be expressed and shall operate to vest the land in the local authority in fee simple free from incumbrances and all estates, rights, titles, and interests of whatsoever kind on a specified date not earlier than seven days after the making of the order.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (1) of this section, where a local authority have acquired by a vesting order land which is subject, either alone or in conjunction with other land, to a purchase annuity, payment in lieu of rent, or other annual sum (not being merely a rent under a contract of tenancy) payable to the Irish Land Commission or to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, the local authority shall become and be liable, as from the date on which the land is vested in them by the vesting order, for the payment to the Irish Land Commission or to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, as the case may be, of the purchase annuity, payment in lieu of rent or annual sum or such portion thereof as shall be apportioned by the Irish Land Commission or by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, as the case may be, on the land as if the land had been transferred to the local authority by the owner thereof on that date.

(3) When a local authority make a vesting order in relation to any land, they shall send the order to the registering authority under the Registration of Title Acts, 1891 and 1942, and thereupon the registering authority shall cause the local authority to be registered under those Acts as owner of the land in accordance with the order.