In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(1)The expression " estate " in Part One of this Act means any lands which the Estates Commissioners may declare fit to be regarded as a separate estate for the purposes of this Act, and the said expression in Part Two of this Act has the same meaning, with the substitution) of the Congested Districts Board for the Estates-Commissioners :
The expression " prescribed, " in any case not otherwise provided for, means prescribed by rules made by the Land Commission in the manner directed by subsection six of section twenty-nine of the Act of 1891 :
The expression " demesne " includes any mansion house or .other buildings thereon:
The expression " vesting order " includes fiat:
The expressions " Registry of Deeds " and " Registry of Judgments " have the same meanings respectively as in the [54 & 55 Vict. c. 66.] Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891 :
The expression " the Land Purchase Acts " includes Part Three of the Act of 1896, the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1901, the [1 Edw. 7. c. 30.] Purchase of Land (Ireland) No. 2, Act, 1901, and Part One of this Act:
The expression " the Land Law Acts " means the Land Law Acts as defined by the Act of 1896 and Part One; of that Act:
The expression " the Act of 1881 " means the [44 7amp; 45 Vict. c. 49.] Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881 ;
The expression " the Act of 1885 " means the [48 & 49 Vict.c. 73.] Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885 :
The expression " the Act of 1887 " means the [50 & 51 Vict. c. 33.] Land Law (Ireland) Act 1887:
The expression " the Act of 1891 " means the [54 & 55 Vict. c. 41.] Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891 ; and
The expression " the Act of 1896 " means the [59 & 60 Vict. c. 47.] Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1896:
The expression " the Public Works Acts " means the Drainage and Navigation (Ireland) Acts, 1842 to 1857 ; the Drainage and Improvement (Ireland) Acts, 1863 to 1892 ; the Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1846 ; the Landed Property and Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1847, and any Act or enactment extending, amending, applying, or incorporating the said Acts or any of them or any part thereof ; and the Drainage Maintenance Act, 1866.
(2)The expression " superior interest, " in the Land Purchase Acts, shall include any reversion or estate expectant on the determination of an estate tail or a base fee, whether such reversion or estate is or is not vested in the Crown.
Nothing in this Act shall affect—
(a)Any sporting rights, mineral rights, or water rights which are not in the possession or enjoyment of the vendor at the time of sale;
(b)Any mine or quarry which is being worked or developed by the vendor at the time of sale; or
(c)Any right to water power in actual use by the vendor at the time of sale.
(1)Part One of this Act shall be construed as one with the Land Purchase Acts and may be cited with those Acts.
(2)Part Two of this Act shall be construed as one with the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Acts and may be cited with those Acts.
(3)Part Three of this Act shall be construed as one with the Land Law Acts and may be cited with those Acts.
(4)Part Four of this Act shall be construed as one with the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883 to 1896, and may be cited with those Acts.
This Act may be cited as the Irish Land Act, 1903.
This Act shall come into operation on the first day of November nineteen hundred and three.
The Acts specified in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule,