Wildlife Act, 1976

Extinguishment of easements.

61.—(1) Where any land held by the Minister for the purposes of this Act, or partly for those purposes and partly for the purposes of the Act of 1946, is subject to any easements, the Minister may apply to the Lay Commissioners for an extinguishment order extinguishing such easements or any one or more of them.

(2) The provisions of subsections (2) to (12) of section 19 of the Act of 1946 shall apply in relation to an application, made by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, for an extinguishment order in the same manner as if the application were made under subsection (1) of the said section 19, and section 3 of the Act of 1946 shall apply in relation to the application.

(3) In this section “extinguishment order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 19 of the Act of 1946.