An Act to confirm and give effect to an agreement relating to the Agricultural Research Station for Northern Ireland.
[22nd December 1931]
WHEREAS an agreement dated the second day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty, was made between the Ministry of Finance of the first part, the Ministry of Agriculture of the second part and the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland (in this Act referred to as “the Institute”) of the third part, supplemental to an indenture (in this Act referred to as “the principal indenture”) dated the twenty-eighth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and made between the Ministry of Finance of the first part, the Ministry of Agriculture of the second part and James Scott Gordon, James Pimlott, Josias Cunningham, George Scott Robertson, Robert Rae, William Robert Morrow, Alexander John McDonnell Pilkington, John Martin Mark and Harold Adrian Milne Barbour of the third part, which said agreement is set forth in the Schedule to this Act, and is in this Act referred to as “the scheduled agreement” :
And whereas by the scheduled agreement it was agreed that the principal indenture should be varied so as to permit the Institute to use and occupy another part of the lands referred to in the scheduled agreement as “the Great Park” in place of part of the lands which the Institute was permitted to use and occupy under the principal indenture:
And whereas the provisions of the scheduled agreement cannot take effect without the authority of Parliament:
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(1)The scheduled agreement is hereby confirmed and shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.
(2)No stamp duty shall be charged on the scheduled agreement.
This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Research Station Act (Northern Ireland), 1931, and shall be construed as one with the Agricultural Research Station Act (Northern Ireland), 1927 M1, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Agricultural Research Station Acts (Northern Ireland), 1927 and 1931.
The Schedule sets out the terms of the Agreement dated 2nd December 1930 between the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland whereby the Institute surrendered to the Ministry of Finance an area of some 9 acres forming part of the Great Park, Hillsborough, County Down which it was entitled to use and occupy under the terms of an Agreement dated 28th October 1926 between the same parties (see 1927 c.1 (NI)). The Ministry of Finance agreed to permit the Institute to use and occupy another area of some 15 acres of the Great Park and also agreed that the Ministry might from time to time after consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture permit the Institute to use and occupy a further limited area of the Great Park.