Johnstown Castle Agricultural College (Amendment) Act, 1959

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Number 30 of 1959.


JOHNSTOWN CASTLE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1959.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definitions.

2.

Vesting of the Estate in the Institute.

3.

User of the Estate.

4.

Name of the Estate.

5.

Provisions in relation to the Gate Lodge at Rathaspick.

6.

Restrictions on demolition of Johnstown Castle, etc.

7.

Application of sections 6, 7 and 8 of the Act of 1945.

8.

Transfer of certain obligations of the Minister to the Institute.

9.

Non-application of Section 14(3) of the Agriculture (An Foras Talúntais) Act, 1958, to the Estate.

10.

Transfer of chattels on the Estate to the Institute.

11.

Exemption from stamp duties.

12.

Repeals.

13.

Expenses of the Minister.

14.

Short title and commencement.

SCHEDULE.

Enactments Repealed.


Acts Referred to

Johnstown Castle Agricultural College Act, 1945

1945, No. 33

Agriculture (An Foras Talúntais) Act, 1958

1958, No. 1

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Number 30 of 1959.


JOHNSTOWN CASTLE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1959.


AN ACT TO ENABLE THE JOHNSTOWN CASTLE ESTATE TO BE VESTED IN AN FORAS TALUNTAIS, TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN CONDITIONS ON WHICH THAT ESTATE IS TO BE HELD BY AN FORAS TALUNTAIS, TO AMEND THE JOHNSTOWN CASTLE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ACT, 1945 , AND TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [24th November, 1959.]

WHEREAS by an indenture made on the 28th day of November, 1944, between Dorothy Violet Jefferies of the first part Maurice Victor Lakin of the second part and the Minister for Agriculture of the third part and registered in the Registry of Deeds on the 22nd day of November, 1945, in Book 43, No. 86, after reciting that the said Dorothy Violet Jefferies and Maurice Victor Lakin were desirous of presenting the property described in the Schedule thereto to the Nation as a free gift, and reciting that the Government had duly intimated their willingness to accept the said gift on behalf of the Nation and that it was agreed that the said property should be conveyed by the said Dorothy Violet Jefferies and Maurice Victor Lakin to the Minister for Agriculture to be held subject to the provisions and conditions thereinafter contained, it was witnessed that the said property was conveyed and assigned to the Minister for Agriculture subject to the provisions therein contained, including a provision that the said property should be used by the State exclusively for the purpose of a lay agricultural college and for no other purpose whatever and subject also to the condition that the presents now in recital were conditional upon acceptance of the said intended gift by the Oireachtas and the enactment of legislation to give effect to same:

AND WHEREAS by section 2 of the Johnstown Castle Agricultural College Act, 1945 , the generous gift by the said Dorothy Violet Jefferies and Maurice Victor Lakin of the said property to the Nation for the purposes of a lay agricultural college was gratefully accepted, and the Minister for Agriculture was authorised to execute the said indenture and to take and hold in accordance with the said Act, the estate conveyed to him by the said indenture:

AND WHEREAS An Foras Talúntais was established by the Agriculture (An Foras Talúntais) Act, 1958 , as an institute for agricultural research:

AND WHEREAS the transfer of the said property to An Foras Talúntais and the extension of the purposes for which it might be used so as to include agricultural research would tend to the advancement of agricultural science and would increase the usefulness of the property:

AND WHEREAS the said Dorothy Violet Jefferies and Maurice Victor Lakin have generously consented to such transfer and extension subject to the conditions specified in this Act:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACÍHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—