When any lands are vested in any person being a member of a university or college in trust or for the benefit of the university or college, or the head or any other member thereof, it shall be lawful for such person F1... to convey and transfer such lands in such manner as that the same may be vested in the university or college in its corporate capacity, upon the trusts nevertheless affecting the same lands respectively.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 40 omitted (19.5.2025) by virtue of Charities Act 2022 (c. 6), ss. 24(4), 41(4); S.I. 2024/265, reg. 4, Sch. 2 para. 2
(1)The powers and provisions of this Act relating to land belonging to a university or college shall extend and be applicable not only to land vested in the university or college, or in any body constituted for holding land belonging to the university or college, and held as the property or for the general purposes of the university or college, but also to land so vested which may be held upon any trusts, or for any special endowment or other purposes, connected with the university or college.
(2)The power conferred by this Act on a university or college may as respects each particular university or college be exercised by such body and in such manner as may be provided by the statutes regulating that university or college.
Nothing in this Act contained shall restrain a university or college, or other body constituted for holding land belonging to a university or college, from exercising any powers of sale, exchange, purchase, or borrowing, or from granting any leases or making any grants, whether by way of renewal or otherwise, which the university or college might have exercised or granted under the provisions of any Act of Parliament, whether public general or local or private, or under any other authority, or in any other manner whatsoever, in case this Act had not been passedF2...
Textual Amendments
F2Words in s. 42 omitted (19.5.2025) by virtue of Charities Act 2022 (c. 6), ss. 24(5), 41(4); S.I. 2024/265, reg. 4, Sch. 2 para. 2
In this Act F3...:—
F4(i). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F5(ii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(iii)“Hereditaments” mean real property which on an intestacy might before the commencement of the M1Law of Property Act 1922, have devolved on an heir;
(iv)“Land” includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether the division is horizontal, vertical or otherwise) and all other corporeal hereditaments; also a manor, an advowson, and a rent and all other incorporeal hereditaments, and an easement, right, privilege, or benefit in, over, or derived from land [F6, but not an undivided share in land];
(v)“Lease” includes an agreement for a lease;
(vi)“Manor” includes lordship, and reputed manor or lordship; and “manorial incidents” has the same meaning as in the M2Law of Property Act 1922;
(vii)“Mines and minerals” mean mines and minerals whether already opened or in work or not, and include all minerals and substances in, on, or under the land, obtainable by underground or by surface working; and “mining purposes” include the sinking and searching for, winning, working, getting, making merchantable, smelting or otherwise converting or working for the purposes of any manufacture, carrying away, and disposing of mines and minerals, in or under [F7any] land, and the erection of buildings, and the execution of engineering and other works suitable for those purposes; and a “mining lease” is a lease for any mining purposes or purposes connected therewith, and includes a grant or licence for any mining purposes;
F8(viii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(ix)“Rent” includes yearly or other rent, and toll, duty, royalty, or other reservation, by the acre, or the ton, or otherwise; and, in relation to rent, “payment” includes delivery; and “fine” includes premium or fore-gift, and any payment, consideration, or benefit in the nature of a fine, premium, or fore-gift;
F9(x). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F3Words in s. 43 omitted (19.5.2025) by virtue of Charities Act 2022 (c. 6), ss. 24(6)(a), 41(4); S.I. 2024/265, reg. 4, Sch. 2 para. 2
F4S. 43(i) omitted (19.5.2025) by virtue of Charities Act 2022 (c. 6), ss. 24(6)(b), 41(4); S.I. 2024/265, reg. 4, Sch. 2 para. 2
F5S. 43(ii) omitted (19.5.2025) by virtue of Charities Act 2022 (c. 6), ss. 24(6)(b), 41(4); S.I. 2024/265, reg. 4, Sch. 2 para. 2
F6Words in s. 43(iv) repealed (E.W.) (1.1.1997) by 1996 c. 47, s. 25(2), Sch. 4 (with ss. 24(2), 25(4)(5)); S.I. 1996/2974, art.2
F7Words substituted by Universities and College Estates Act 1964 (c. 51), Sch. 3 Pt. II
F8S. 43(viii) omitted (19.5.2025) by virtue of Charities Act 2022 (c. 6), ss. 24(6)(b), 41(4); S.I. 2024/265, reg. 4, Sch. 2 para. 2
F9S. 43(x) omitted (19.5.2025) by virtue of Charities Act 2022 (c. 6), ss. 24(6)(b), 41(4); S.I. 2024/265, reg. 4, Sch. 2 para. 2
Marginal Citations
(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10 nothing in this repeal shall affect the validity of anything done before the commencement of this Act, or shall affect any consent, order, authority, or direction given under any enactment so repealed; but any such consent, order, authority, or direction shall have effect as if made under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
(2)References in any document to any enactment repealed by this Act shall be construed as references to this Act or the corresponding provisions of this Act.
Textual Amendments
F10Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6), Sch. 1
(1)This Act may be cited as the Universities and College Estates Act 1925.
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11
Textual Amendments
F11S. 45(2), Sch. 2 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6), Sch. 1