Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1924

Heirlooms.

20 (1) The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (1) of section thirty-seven of the Act of 1882 :—

“(1) Where personal chattels are settled so as to devolve with settled land, or to devolve therewith as nearly as may be in accordance with the law or practice in force at the date of the settlement, or are settled together with land, or upon trusts declared by reference to the trusts affecting land, a tenant for life of the land may sell the chattels or any of them.”

(2) Any reference in any enactment to personal chattels settled as heirlooms shall extend to any chattels to which subsection (1) of section thirty-seven of the Act of 1882, as amended, applies.