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LAND TRUST (POWERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1923

LAND TRUST (POWERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1923 - LONG TITLE

An Act to enable the Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust to
carry out in Northern Ireland the purposes for which it has been
established by law.{1}
[22nd June 1923]
1922 c.2

Provisions with respect to powers of Trust in Northern Ireland.

LAND TRUST (POWERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1923 - SECT 1

1.(1) The Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust (in this section
referred to as "the Trust") shall have and may exercise all the
powers which are necessary to enable the Trust to carry out, as
respects Northern Ireland, the purposes of section three of the
Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922 (Session 2),
(which section is set out in the Schedule to this Act and is in
this section referred to as "the scheduled enactment"), whether being
powers conferred upon the Trust by the scheduled enactment or by
regulations made thereunder:

Provided that the Trust shall not have as respects Northern Ireland
any power of compulsory acquisition of land.

(2) The Ministry of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland shall have
power to acquire land otherwise than by agreement for transfer to
the Trust, and shall, for the purpose of such acquisition, have all
the powers which are 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 the Board before the said date had been taken
by the said Ministry of Home Affairs in the exercise of the powers
conferred upon it by this Act.

Subs. (3) spent

(4) If arrangements are made by the Trust for the exercise and
performance on behalf of the Trust of any powers or duties of the
Trust by any department of the Government of Northern Ireland or
officers thereof, that 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 Northern
Ireland, by this Act and the scheduled enactment.

(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
said Ministry of Home Affairs 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 four may
be exercised by means of orders made by the Trust and the said
Ministry of Home Affairs jointly.. This Act may be cited as the
Land Trust (Powers) Act (Northern Ireland), 1923.

Establishment of a trust for the provision of cottages, etc., for
ex-service men in Ireland.

3.(1) For the purpose of providing in Ireland cottages, with or
without plots or gardens, for the accommodation of men who served
in any of His Majesty's naval, military, or air forces in the late
war, and for other purposes incidental thereto, a body shall be
established consisting of five members, of whom three shall be
appointed by a Secretary of State, one by the President of the
Executive Council of the Irish Free State, and one by the Prime
Minister of Northern Ireland.

(2) The body so established shall be a body corporate by the name
of the Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust, with perpetual
succession and a common seal, and is in this section referred to
as "the Trust."

(3) For the purposes aforesaid, the Trust shall have all the powers
which are conferred upon the Local Government Board for Ireland by
section four of the Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers)
Act, 1919, including power to carry out the schemes made under that
section by that Board prior to the passing of this Act, and such
powers of management, sale, disposal and otherwise as may be
conferred on them by regulations made by the Treasury, and all
property, assets, rights and liabilities held, enjoyed or borne by
the Local Government Board for Ireland in connection with any
schemes so made by them shall be transferred to the Trust:

Provided that the provisions of the said section relating to the
compulsory acquisition of land, limiting the time within which the
power to acquire land may be exercised by the Board, and regulating
the expenses and receipts and audit of accounts of the Board shall
not apply to the Trust.

(4) There shall be paid to the Trust out of moneys provided by
Parliament, at such times and in such instalments as the Treasury
may direct, a sum not exceeding one million five hundred thousand
pounds, and the sum so received and all other receipts of the
Trust shall be applied by the Trust to the purposes for which the
Trust is created.

(5) The Treasury may make regulations as to the procedure of the
Trust and as to the application of the proceeds of sale, and as
to the audit of the accounts of the Trust, and generally as to
the manner in which the Trust shall carry out their powers and
duties, and the Trust shall act in accordance with those
regulations.

(6) The term of office of a member of the Trust shall be such as
may be determined by the authority by whom he is appointed, but
the Trust may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their number.

(7) This section shall not come into operation until the Treasury
certify that such legislation has been passed by the Parliament of
the Irish Free State and the Parliament of Northern Ireland as is
necessary to enable the Trust to acquire and to hold land, to vest
in the Trust any land and other property which is under this
section to be transferred to the Trust, and otherwise to enable the
Trust to carry out the purposes of this section.