Land Trust Powers Act, 1923
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Provisions as to powers for the execution of the purposes of the Trust in Saorstát Eireann. |
1.—(1) The Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust (in this Act referred to as the “Trust”) shall have power to acquire and hold land in Saorstát Eireann and such other powers as may be necessary to enable the Trust to carry out in Saorstát Eireann the purposes of Section Three of the Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922: | |
Provided that nothing in the foregoing provision shall be taken as empowering the Trust to acquire land compulsorily in Saorstát Eireann. | ||
(2) The Minister for Local Government may, if he thinks fit, at the request of the Trust acquire land otherwise than by agreement for transfer to the Trust, and shall, for the purpose of such acquisition, have all the powers which were conferred upon the Local Government Board for Ireland by virtue of Section Four of the Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919 , including power to carry out and complete any scheme made by the said Board before the sixth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, so far as respects the compulsory acquisition of land thereunder, in like manner as if the proceedings taken by that Board before that date had been taken by the Minister for Local Government in the exercise of the powers conferred upon the Minister by this Act. | ||
(3) Any land, property or rights acquired by the Local Government Board for Ireland under Section Four of the Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919 , or by the Minister for Local Government under the powers conferred on him by this section, shall be transferred to and vest in the Trust on such respective dates as may be specified in Orders made by the said Minister without the necessity of any transfer, assignment or other instrument, but subject to any liabilities mentioned in the respective Orders. | ||
(4) If arrangements are made by the Trust with any Department of the Government of Saorstát Eireann for the exercise and performance on behalf of the Trust of any powers or duties of the Trust by that Department or officers thereof, such Department or officers shall have and may exercise to such extent and on such terms and conditions as may be agreed, the powers conferred upon the Trust as respects Saorstát Eireann by this Act and the said Section Three of the Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922. | ||
(5) Paragraph (d) of sub-section (4) and sub-sections (7) and (8) of Section Four of the Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919 , shall not apply to the powers conferred on the Minister for Local Government by this section, and the power of making Orders adapting enactments conferred on the Local Government Board for Ireland by sub-section (6) of the said section may be exercised by means of Orders made by the Minister for Local Government and the Trust jointly. |