National Monuments (Amendment) Act, 1954

Transfer by local authority of guardianship or ownership of national monument to Commissioners.

2.—Section 7 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following—

“(1) Where a local authority—

(a) have been appointed by deed under this or any other Act to be the guardians of a national monument, or

(b) are the owners of a national monument,

they may, with the consent of the Commissioners and with the consent of the owner in cases where the local authority are the guardians, transfer by deed such guardianship or ownership to the Commissioners and upon such guardianship being so transferred the deed appointing such local authority to be guardians shall have effect under this Act as if it appointed the Commissioners to be the guardians of such monument.”