Agricultural Research Station Act (Northern Ireland) 1927 (repealed)

1927 Chapter 1

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1Incorporation of Agricultural Research Institute.

The Trustees named in the scheduled agreement and new trustees to be appointed in pursuance of the provisions thereof shall be a body corporate called by the name of “the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland” with perpetual succession and a common seal and with power to acquire and hold land …F2.

2Confirmation of agreement.

The scheduled agreement is hereby confirmed and shall have effect as if enacted in this Act and shall bind the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland as if the said Institute were substituted as a party for and had executed the scheduled agreement in place of the Trustees.

3Payments out of moneys provided by Parliament, and exemption of agreement from stamp duty.

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There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament such sums as may under the scheduled agreement become payable by the Ministry of Finance to the said Institute for the purposes of the Capital Fund, the Endowment Fund, and the interim payment therein mentioned, not exceeding the respective amounts therein specified.

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No stamp duty shall be charged on the scheduled agreement.

4Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Research Station Act (Northern Ireland), 1927.

SCHEDULE

The Schedule sets out the terms of the Agreement dated 28th October, 1926 between the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Trustees of the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland whereby the Ministry of Finance undertook to permit the Institute to use and occupy land forming part of the Great Park, Hillsborough, County Down for the purposes of the Institute.