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Post Office Act 1953

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46Holding of land by Postmaster-General

(1)For the purpose of acquiring and holding land the Postmaster-General for the time being shall be a corporation sole by the name of Her Majesty's Postmaster-General, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and an official seal.

(2)All land vested in the Postmaster-General shall be held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of the Post Office.

(3)In this and the three next following sections the expression " land " -includes any estate or interest in or over land and in the application of the said sections to Scotland—

(a)any reference to the acquisition or disposal of land includes a reference to the acquisition or disposal of land by feu;

(b)any reference to exchange includes a reference to excamb or excambion;

(c)for any reference to an easement there shall be substituted a reference to a servitude.

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