Limited Owners Residences Act 1870
1870 c.56
An Act to enable the owners of Settled Estates in England and Ireland to charge such estates, within certain limits, with the expense of building mansions as residences for themselves.
F1C1C2C3C4C5C6Whereas by The Entail Improvement Act, 1770, heirs of entail in Scotland are enabled to charge their estates with sums of money laid out by them in building mansions as residences for themselves:
And whereas such enactment having been found beneficial in that part of the United Kingdom, it is expedient to enable limited owners in other parts of the United Kingdom to build mansions on their estates as residences for themselves:
Act: functions transferred (1.7.1999) by virtue of S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1
Act extended (S.) by Improvement of Land Act 1899 (c. 46), s. 2, Sch. 1
Functions of Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales now exercisable by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (E.W.) and by Secretary of State (S.): Settled Land Act 1882 (c. 38), s. 48(1), Board of Agriculture Act 1889 (c. 30), ss. 2(1)(b), 10, Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), s. 4, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 (c. 91), s. 1, Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 1, Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1 and S. I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200)
Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)
Entail Improvement Act 1770 cited or referred to by its short title under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14), s. 3
Certain functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under this enactment transferred by S.I. 1978/272, art. 2, Sch. 1
Act repealed (S.) (prosp.) by 2000 asp 5, ss. 76(2), 77(a)(d), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75)