Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945

Powers and duties where acquired land is subject to a land purchase annuity, etc.

35.—Whenever the Board acquires permanently under this Act any land which is subject, either alone or in conjunction with other land, to a land purchase annuity, payment in lieu of rent, or other annual sum (not being merely rent under a contract of tenancy) payable to the Irish Land Commission or to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, the Board shall, as from the date on which the Board enters on and takes possession of the land so acquired—

(a) become and be liable for the payment to the Irish Land Commission or the said Commissioners (as the case may be) of such annual sum, or such portion thereof as shall be apportioned by the Irish Land Commission or the said Commissioners (as the case may be) on such land, as if such land had been transferred to the Board by the owner thereof on that date, and

(b) be entitled, if the Board so thinks fit, to redeem such annual sum or such portion thereof as aforesaid, and

(c) be obliged, if required by the Irish Land Commission or the said Commissioners (as the case may be) so to do, to redeem such annual sum or such portion thereof as aforesaid.