Labourers Act, 1936

Registration under the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, of ownership of cottages the subject of vesting orders.

19.—(1) Where by a vesting order under this Act a cottage is vested in the tenant thereof and the registration of the ownership of such cottage is not on the vesting day compulsory by virtue of any provision either of the Act of 1891 or of the Land Purchase Acts, on and after the vesting day the registration of the ownership of such cottage shall be compulsory and such cottage shall be deemed to be registered land within the meaning of the said Acts.

(2) Whenever a board of health makes under this Act a vesting order vesting a cottage in the tenant thereof, such board of health shall forthwith, in order that such tenant may be registered under the Act of 1891 as owner of such cottage, transmit to the registering authority under the Act of 1891—

(a) a copy of such vesting order, and

(b) a map showing the situation of such cottage, and

(c) the fee prescribed for such registration.

(3) When the registering authority under the Act of 1891 receives from a board of health a copy of a vesting order made in relation to any cottage together with the map and fee mentioned in the next preceding sub-section the said authority shall, subject to the provisions of the Act of 1891, register the tenant of such cottage as owner thereof either on the vesting day or as soon thereafter as shall be possible.

(4) The provisions of Part IV of the Act of 1891 shall have effect in relation to any cottage which is purchased by the tenant thereof under this Act as if such cottage were freehold registered land to which the said Part IV applies.

(5) Section 47 of the Act of 1891 shall have effect as if the purchase annuity payable in respect of a cottage registered under the said Act and the statutory conditions were added to and included in the burdens mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (i) of that section.

(6) Every regulation prescribing the fees to be paid in respect of the registration under this section of the tenants of cottages as owners of such cottages shall be made with the consent of the Minister for Finance.