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CHAP. 34.

Irish Land Act, 1904.

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Amendment

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Amendment of 3 Edw. 7. c. 37. s. 48. as to untenanted land.

2. As to payment and application of percentage.

3. Special provisions as to tenants for life, persons under disability, &c.'
4. Construction and citation.

5. Short title.

An Act to explain and amend Section
forty-eight of the Irish Land Act,
1903, with respect to the payment
and application of the percentage
provided by the said section.

[15th August 1904.]

Be it enacted by the King'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. Any land wholly or partly untenanted of 3 Edw. 7. sold to the Land Commission or the Congested Districts Board may be regarded as an estate for the purpose of the payment of any percentage under section forty-eight of the Irish Land Act, 1903.

c. 37. s. 48. as to untenanted land.

As to payment and application of percentage.

2. The percentage mentioned in the said
section forty-eight may, subject to the enact-
ments contained in the proviso to subsection
one and in subsection four thereof, be paid to
any vendor, other than the Congested Districts
Board, whether such vendor is a person
entitled to a beneficial interest in the land sold,
or is a trustee or other person not so entitled,
and, save as hereinafter provided, shall be held
by him on the trusts (if any) affecting the pur-
chase money.

Special pro- 3.-(1) Where the vendor is a tenant for
visions as to life or a person having the powers of a tenant
tenants for
life, persons for life under the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to
1890, the percentage shall, subject to those
enactments of the said section forty-eight

under disability, &c.

mentioned in the last preceding section, be
retained by him as his own proper moneys for
his own use and benefit, free and discharged
from all claims upon the lands sold, or the
purchase money thereof, and from any trust
affecting the same.

Provided that where the vendor is a person
exercising any power of sale on behalf of a
lunatic person of unsound mind or infant, or
where the vendor is a lunatic or person of un-
sound mind selling pursuant to any order
made by the Lord Chancellor, the percentage
shall be held for the use and benefit of the
same persons, or upon the same trusts, as the
case may be, as if the lunatic, person of un-
sound mind, or infant, as the case may be,
were not under any disability.

Provided also that where the vendors are husband and wife exercising together the powers of a tenant for life under section sixtyone of the Settled Land Act, 1882, the 45 & 46 Vict. percentage shall be retained by them jointly c. 38. for their own use and benefit, free and discharged from all claims and trusts as aforesaid.

(2) The expression "lunatic" in this section has the same meaning as in the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871.

34 & 35 Vict. c. 22.

tion and 4. This Act shall be construed as one with Construccitation. the Irish Land Act, 1903, and may be cited with the Land Purchase Acts, and the said 3 Edw. 7. Act of 1903 shall be construed and shall take c. 37. effect from the date of its passing as if this Act had then formed part thereof.

5. This Act may be cited as the Irish Land Short title. Act, 1904.

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prisons to be ordinary prisons.

CHAP. 35.

Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1904.

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. General prisons to be ordinary prisons.
2. Short title.

An Act to amend the Law relating to prisons in Scotland by abolishing the distinction between general prisons and ordinary prisons.

[15th August 1904.]

Be it enacted by the King'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.-(1) All existing general prisons in Scotland shall be ordinary prisons within the meaning of the Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1877, and any reference in any Act to an ordinary

prison shall be deemed to include a reference to an existing general prison.

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(2) The words "other than the General "Prison at Perth or any prison which may "hereafter be declared by Her Majesty in "Council to be a general prison" occurring in section seventy-one of the Prisons (Scotland) 40 & 41 Vict. Act, 1877, and the words "which prison may c. 53. "be declared by Her Majesty in Council to "be a general prison in terms of the pro"vision of the said Act" occurring in sec

tion twenty-three of the Peterhead Harbour of 49 & 50 Viet. Refuge Act, 1886, are hereby repealed.

c. 49.

2. This Act may be cited as the Prisons Short title. (Scotland) Act, 1904, and this Act and the Prisons (Scotland) Acts, 1860 to 1887, may be cited as the Prisons (Scotland) Acts, 1860 to 1904.

CHAP. 36.

Public Works Loans Act, 1904.

Grants for public works.

1. Grants for public works.

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

2. Certain debts not to be reckoned as assets of local loans fund.

3. Power to apply excess income of Local Loans Fund to meet deficiencies in capital account.
4. Remission of a sum due by way of interest from the guardians of the Belmullet Union.
5. Short title.

SCHEDULE.

An Act to grant Money for the purpose of certain Local Loans out of the Local Loans Fund, and for other purposes relating to Local Loans.

[15th August 1904.]

BE it enacted by the King'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.-(1) For the purpose of local loans there VOL. LXXXIV.-LAW JOUR. STAT.

may be issued by the National Debt Commissioners the following suins, namely:(a) For the purpose of loans by the Public Works Loan Commissioners any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of four million five hundred thousand pounds;

(b) For the purpose of loans by the Com. missioners of Public Works in Ireland any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of nine hundred thousand pounds. (2) The sums so issued shall be issued during a period ending on the day on which a further Act granting money for the purposes

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4. Whereas the guardians of the union of Remission Belmullet in the county of Mayo by not repay- by way of ing when due the instalments of a loan made interest to them under the Seed Supply and Potato Spraying (Ireland) Act, 1898, have become of the liable to pay under the provisions of the Public Belmullet Works Loans Act, 1897, interest to the amount 61 & 62 Vict. of sixty-six pounds six shillings and one penny, c. 50. and it is expedient to remit the said sum; therefore the said sum is hereby remitted.

Union.

5. This Act may be cited as the Public Short title. Works Loans Act, 1904.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

LOANS BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS, IRELAND.

(1) LOANS UNDER THE LANDED PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT (IRELAND) ACT, 1847 (10 Vict. c. 32).

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(2.) LOANS UNDER THE LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 49. s. 31).

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PART II.

LOAN BY THE IRISH LAND COMMISSIONERS.

LOAN UNDER THE PURCHASE OF LAND (IRELAND) ACT, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 73 s. 2).

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LOANS BY THE FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.

LOANS UNDER THE CROFTERS' HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 29).

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INDEX

TO THE

PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES,

4 EDWARD VII., A.D. 1904.

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NOTE. The capital letters placed after the chapter have the following signification :

E. that the Act relates to England (and Wales, if it so extend).

Scotland exclusively.

Ireland exclusively.

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Great Britain and Ireland (and Colonies, if it so extend).
India specially.

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The Colonies specially, or any of them.

Several Public Acts of a Local Character, which have been placed among the Local Acts,
are entered in this Index, with a reference to the Table in which they will be found.

A.

ABERDEEN CITY IMPROVEMENTS ORDER CONFIRMATION

ABERDEEN JOINT PASSENGER STATION ORDER CONFIRMATION

See Table 1V., Class XVI. (13).

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. See EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE ACT (c. 29).

ADDINGTON, Application of surplus arising from sale of. See BISHOPRICS OF SOUTHWARK AND
BIRMINGHAM ACT (c. 30, Sch. I.).

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. See

HALL-MARKING OF FOREIGN PLATE ACT
(c. 6).

LICENSING ACT (c. 23).

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ACT
(c. 15).

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS (IRELAND) ACT
(c. 9).

SHOP HOURS ACT (c. 31, s. 5).
WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT (c. 4).
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT (c. 24).

ADMIRALTY. See WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT (c. 24, s. 1).

AIRDRIE CORPORATION GAS ORDER CONFIRMATION. See Table IV., Class XVI. (13).

AMALGAMATION OF TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANKS. See SAVINGS BANKS ACT (c. 8, s. 5).

ANGLO-FRENCH CONVENTION; for approving and carrying into Effect a Convention between
His Majesty and the President of the French Republic. Ch. 33, U.K.

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