Landlord and Tenant Act 1927

Section 24.

SECOND SCHEDULE

PART I Application to Crown and Duchy Land

1 (a) With respect to any land belonging to His Majesty in right of the Crown, or to a Government department, for the purposes of this Act, the Commissioners of Crown Lands, or other the proper officer or body having charge of the land for the time being, or, in case there is no such officer or body, then such person as His Majesty may appoint in writing under the Royal Sign Manual, shall represent His Majesty, and shall be deemed to be the landlord.

(b) The power given to the Treasury by section fifteen of the [17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 23.] Crown Lands Act, 1927 (being a power to direct the cost of certain improvements to be charged to capital and repaid out of income), shall extend to any compensation under Part I. of this Act payable by the Commissioners of Crown Lands.

2 (a) With respect to land belonging to His Majesty in right of the Duchy of Lancaster, for the purposes of this Act, the Chancellor of the Duchy shall represent His Majesty, and shall be deemed to be the landlord.

(b) The amount of any compensation under Part I. of this Act payable by the Chancellor of the Duchy shall be raised and paid as an expense incurred in improvement of land belonging to His Majesty in right of the Duchy within section twenty-five of the Act of the fifty-seventh year of King George the Third, chapter ninety-seven.

3 (a) With respect to land belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall, for the purposes of this Act, such person as the Duke of Cornwall, or the possessor for the time being of the Duchy of Cornwall appoints, shall represent the Duke of Cornwall or other the possessor aforesaid, and be deemed to be the landlord, and may do any act or thing under this Act which a landlord is authorised or required to do thereunder.

(b) Any compensation under Part I. of this Act payable by the Duke of Cornwall, or other the possessor aforesaid, shall be paid, and advances therefor made, in the manner and subject to the provisions of section eight of the [26 & 27 Vict. c. 49.] Duchy of Cornwall Management Act, 1863, with respect to improvements of land mentioned in that section.

PART II Application to Ecclesiastical and Charity Land

1 (a) Where lands are assigned or secured as the endowment of a see, the powers by this Act conferred on a landlord in respect of charging land shall not be exercised by the bishop in respect of those lands, except with the previous approval in writing of the Estates Committee of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

(b) Where a landlord is incumbent of an ecclesiastical benefice, the powers by this Act conferred on a landlord in respect of charging land shall not be exercised by him in respect of the glebe land or other land belonging to the benefice, except with the previous approval in writing of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

(c) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners may, if they think fit, on behalf of an ecclesiastical corporation, out of any money in their hands, pay to the tenant the amount of compensation due to him under Part I. of this Act, and thereupon they may, instead of the corporation obtain from the minister a charge on the holding in respect thereof in favour of themselves, and every such charge shall where the landlord is the incumbent of a benefice be effectual notwithstanding any change of the incumbent.

2 The powers by this Act conferred on a landlord in respect of charging land shall not be exercised by trustees for ecclesiastical or charitable purposes, except with the approval in writing of the Charity Commissioners or the Board of Education, as the case may require.