Land Act, 1953

Limited administrators and nominated representatives.

18.—(1) In addition to the persons referred to in subsection (4) of section 54 of the Land Act, 1939 , that section shall also apply to every person who is—

(a) the tenant of a holding comprised in a list of vested holdings published under section 9 of the Land Act, 1931 , or deemed to have been comprised in a list of congested districts holdings by virtue of section 16 of this Act, or the tenant of a retained holding, or

(b) the owner or occupier of a parcel of untenanted land the subject matter of an application under section 44 of the Land Act, 1931 , or section 37 of the Land Act, 1936 , or under either of those sections as amended or extended by any enactment.

(2) The Land Commission shall be entitled to revoke or cancel the appointment of an administrator or the nomination of any person to represent a person dead, absent or under a disability made (whether before or after the passing of this Act) by the Land Commission and, from time to time as occasion may require, to appoint or nominate under section 54 of the Land Act, 1939 , some other person in lieu of any person appointed or nominated by the Land Commission who has died or whose appointment or nomination is revoked or cancelled by the Land Commission.

(3) No nomination shall be made after the passing of this Act under section 67 of the Land Act, 1923 , and no appointment shall be made after such passing under subsection (11) of section 42 of the Land Act, 1933 .

(4) It is hereby declared that any person appointed as administrator or nominated to represent a person dead, absent or under a disability by the Land Commission (whether so appointed or nominated before or after the passing of this Act) has and always had full power to transfer or otherwise deal with, for the purposes of proceedings under the Land Purchase Acts (including this Act), land registered under the Registration of Title Acts, 1891 and 1942, notwithstanding anything contained in those Acts.