Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1924

Compromises and licences.

8 (1) The following provision shall be inserted at the end of subsection (7) of section forty-five of the principal Act:—

“And in any case where section seventy-eight aforesaid has effect as amended and re-enacted by Part II of the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act, 1923, a tenant for life may make any agreement authorised by section eighty-five a of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as enacted in the said Part II.”

(2) The following subsection shall be inserted at the end of section forty-five of the principal Act:—

“(10) Where land is or has been disposed of subject to any covenant requiring the licence, consent, or approval of the covenantee or his successors in title as to—

(a) the user of the land in any manner; or

(b) the erection construction or alteration of or addition to buildings or works of any description on the land; or

(c) the plans or elevations of any proposed buildings or other works on the land; or

(d) any other act, matter, or thing relating to the land, or any buildings or works thereon; or

(e) any assignment, underletting or parting with the possession of all or any part of the property comprised in any lease affecting the settled land;

and the covenant enures for the benefit of settled land (including, where the disposition is a lease, the reversion expectant on the determination thereof) the licence, consent or approval may be given by the tenant for life of the settled land affected.”