Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust Act 1952

1952 CHAPTER 58

An Act to extend the powers of the Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust to sell cottages provided for the purposes of the Trust.

[30th October 1952]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Extension of Trust's powers of sale.

(1) The Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust shall have power, subject to and in accordance with Treasury regulations, to sell any cottage provided for the purposes of the Trust (with or without any plot or garden provided with it)—

(a) to any of the men for whose benefit the Trust was established, including a man in occupation of the cottage to be sold or of some other cottage so provided; or

(b) to the widow of any such man dying before or within six months after the commencement of this Act, if—

(i) they were residing in the cottage together at the time of his death, and she has remained in occupation of it since; and

(ii) he or she has, within the said six months, given the Trust notice of a desire to buy the cottage.

(2) The powers conferred by this Act shall be in addition to any powers of sale which are or may be conferred on the Trust by subsection (5) of section four of the [9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 82.] Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919 (which relates to land no longer required for the accommodation of ex-servicemen), or by Treasury regulations.

(3) In this Act the expression " Treasury regulations " means regulations made by the Treasury under section three of the Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922 (Session 2).

2 Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust Act, 1952.