Irish Land Act, 1909

Trustees for the purposes of turbary, pasture, &c.

18.(1) It shall be lawful for the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, or the council of any county or of any rural district, to purchase any parcel of an estate under section four of the Act of 1903 for any of the purposes mentioned in that section, and the said Department or any such council, or any other body corporate having power to acquire land, may act as trustees for those purposes, and may obtain advances for the purchase.

(2) Where any land is purchased by the said Department or a county council or rural district council under this section, the scheme for the user of the land mentioned in section twenty of the Act of 1903 shall be framed or approved of by the Department, and the requirements of that section with regard to the framing or approval of the scheme by the Lord Lieutenant shall not apply.

(3) Where land is purchased by a county council or rural district council under this section, the amounts required for payment of the instalments of the purchase annuity shall be raised in the case of the county council as a county at large charge, and in the case of the rural district council as a district charge.

(4) It is hereby declared that the provisions of section four and of section twenty of the Act of 1903, as amended by this section, apply as well in the case of the sale of an estate to the Congested Districts Board as in the case of the sale of an estate to persons other than the Congested Districts Board.