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DUBLIN SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUM ACT, 1884
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CHAPTER 6.
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An Act to confer further powers upon the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland of acquiring lands in Dublin for all or any of the purposes of the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, 1877. [28th April 1884.]
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40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxiv.
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WHEREAS by the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, 1877, (in this Act referred to as “the Act of 1877,”) the lands of the Royal Dublin Society therein mentioned were vested in the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland (in this Act referred to as the Commissioners) and the Commissioners were authorised to acquire other lands for the purpose of the erection of a science and art museum in Dublin, and the establishment of a national library in Dublin, and for the other purposes of that Act:
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And whereas the Commissioners require further powers of acquiring lands for the purposes of the Act of 1877:
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And whereas duplicate plans showing the lands which may be required by the Commissioners for the purposes of the Act of 1877 (in this Act referred to as the prescribed lands) and also a book of reference to such plans containing the names of the owners and lessees, or reputed owners and lessees, and of the occupiers of the said lands, and describing the said lands, have been duly deposited with the respective clerks of the peace for the county of the city of Dublin and for the county of Dublin:
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And whereas the prescribed lands cannot be acquired without the authority of Parliament:
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Be it therefore 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:
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, 1884, and this Act and the Act of 1877 may be cited together as the Dublin Science and Art Museum Acts, 1877 and 1884.
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Power to take land.
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2. (1.) The Commissioners may purchase, take, and use for the purposes of the Act of 1877, all or any of the prescribed lands, and may remove the buildings thereon, and sell or dispose of the materials thereof.
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(2.) For the purpose of such purchase there shall be incorporated with this Act the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as amended by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860, the Railways Act (Ireland), 1851, the Railways Act (Ireland), l860, the Railways Act (Ireland), 1864, and the Railways Traverse Act, subject as follows:
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(a.) There shall not be incorporated with this Act sections one hundred and twenty-seven to one hundred and thirty-two, both inclusive, of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, with respect to the sale of superfluous land, nor sections one hundred and fifty and one hundred and fifty-one relating to access to the special Act.
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(b.) In the construction of the said Acts for the purposes of this Act, “the promoters of the undertaking” and “the company” shall respectively be construed to mean the Commissioners, and the Act of 1877, as amended by this Act, shall be deemed to be the special Act, but the date for the period of compulsory purchase shall run from the passing of this Act.
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(c.) Any arbitrator who under the said Acts would be appointed by the Commissioners shall be appointed by the Board of Trade, by order in writing under the hand of the President or one of the secretaries of the Board, and the said Acts shall apply as if in the provisions relating to the arbitrator the Board of Trade were therein mentioned in lieu of the Commissioners.
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General provisions as to purchase of lands by Commissioners.
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3. (1.) All lands taken or acquired by the Commissioners under the authority of this Act shall be held by the Commissioners in trust for Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, for the purposes of the Act of 1877.
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(2.) The Commissioners may from time to time, sell, exchange, or lease all or any of the lands taken or acquired by them under the authority of this Act, which may not be required for the purposes of the Act of 1877.
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(3.) Any purchase, sale, exchange, or lease of land, in pursuance of this Act, shall not be made or granted, except with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, but it shall not be necessary for the person who sells or purchases any such land, or takes the same in exchange or on lease, to ascertain that the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury has been given to such sale, purchase, exchange, or lease.
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(4.) All moneys paid to the Commissioners in respect of any materials, or lands sold by them under the authority of this Act, shall be paid into the Exchequer, and all expenses of the Commissioners under this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.
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