Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930

Transfer of property of abolished bodies.

4.—(1) All property, whether real or personal (including choses-in-action) which immediately before the appointed day is vested in or belongs to or is held in trust for any of the abolished bodies and all rights, powers, and privileges relating to or connected with any such property shall, on the appointed day and without any conveyance or assignment but subject where necessary to transfer in the books of any bank, corporation, or company, become and be vested in or the property of or held in trust for (as the case may require) the successor of such abolished body for all the estate, term, or interest for which the same immediately before the appointed day was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust for such abolished body, but subject to all trusts and equities affecting the same and then subsisting and capable of being performed.

(2) All property transferred by this section which, immediately before the appointed day, is standing in the books of any bank or is registered in the books of any bank, corporation, or company in the name of any of the abolished bodies shall, upon the request of the successor of such abolished body made on or at any time after the appointed day, be transferred in such books by such bank, corporation, or company into the name of such successor.

(3) On and after the appointed day every chose-in-action transferred by this section from an abolished body to the successor of such abolished body may be sued upon, recovered, or enforced by such successor in its own name and it shall not be necessary for such successor to give notice to the person bound by such chose-in-action of the transfer effected by this section.