The Dublin Cemeteries Committee Act, 1970

Transfer of property.

25.—(1) All property, whether real or personal (including choses-in-action) which immediately before the establishment date was vested in or belonged to the 1846 Committee or was held in trust for the 1846 Committee and all rights, powers, and privileges relating to or connected with any such property shall, on the establishment date and without any conveyance or assignment but subject where necessary to transfer in the books or registers of any bank, company, corporation or the Land Registry become and be vested in or the property of or held in trust for the Committee for all the estate, term, or interest for which the same immediately before the establishment date was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust for the 1846 Committee subject to all incumbrances, charges, superior interests and other rights (if any) affecting the same on the establishment date.

(2) Every debt and other liability (including unliquidated liabilities arising from torts or breaches of contract) which immediately before the establishment date was owing and unpaid or had been incurred and was undischarged by the 1846 Committee, shall, on the establishment date, become and be the debt or liability of the Committee and shall be paid or discharged by and may be recovered from or enforced against the Committee.

(3) Every chose-in-action transferred by this section may be sued upon, recovered or enforced by the Committee, in its own name, and it shall not be necessary for the Committee to give notice to the person bound by such chose-in-action of the transfer effected by this section.

(4) All property transferred by this section, which immediately before the establishment date was registered in the books or registers of any bank, company, corporation or the Land Registry shall upon the request of the Committee made on or at any time after the establishment date be transferred in such books or registers by such bank, company, corporation or the Registrar of Titles into the name of the Committee.