Duchy of Lancaster Act 1808

XXIII Rent to be reserved in Cases where Houses are to be rebuilt or newly erected upon demised Land, whereon are other Houses not intended to be rebuilt.

And whereas by the said recited Act of the Thirty-fourth Year aforesaid, certain Rules are laid down for the Reservation of Rent, in Cafes where there are substantial Buildings upon Ground to be demised, or the Buildings thereupon shall not require or be intended or agreed to be rebuilt and also in Cafes where there are no substantial Buildings upon the Grounds to be demised, or the Buildings thereupon require, or shall be intended and agreed to be rebuilt, or other new Buildings erected upon such Land or Ground; but no Rule is laid down for Cafes where upon the Ground to be demised there is some substantial Building not required or intended or agreed to be rebuilt, and either some other Building required or intended or agreed to be rebuilt, or some new Building is proposed to be erected thereon; be it therefore enacted, That in all Cafes where upon the Ground to be demised there is some substantial Building not required or intended or agreed to be rebuilt, and either some other Building thereon requiring or intended or agreed to be rebuilt, or some new Building is in tended or agreed to be erected thereon, it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury to direct what Rent shall be reserved and paid annually, and whether any and what Fine shall be taken upon such Demise, regard being had to the Value of the Buildings on the Ground to be demised not intended to be rebuilt, and the Proportion it bears to the Value of the whole Property intended to be demised.