SEANAD IN COMMITTEE. - LAND LAW (COMMISSION) BILL, 1923—(THIRD STAGE).
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires:—
The expression "the Congested Districts Board" means the Congested Districts Board for Ireland;
The expression "the transfer date" means the date on which the administration of public services relating to land purchase was transferred as repects Saorstát Eireann to the Executive Council of Saorstát Eireann;
The expression "the Land Law Acts" means the Land Law Acts as defined by the Irish Land Act, 1909, together with Part V. of that Act;
The expression "the Land Purchase Acts" means the Land Purchase Acts as defined by the Irish Land Act, 1909, together with Parts I., II., and IV. of that Act;
The expression "the Congested District Board (Ireland) Acts" shall have the same meaning as in the Irish Land Act, 1909, but shall include Part III. of that Act.
I beg to move:—To delete in lines 22 and 23, the words "together with Part V. of that Act."
The object of the deletion is because the lines are unnecessary, inasmuch as the definition is contained in the Land Purchase Act of 1909, Section 66. It is purely a drafting amendment.
The Minister for Agriculture asked me to say that he accepted that amendment, as also the other amendments standing in the name of Senator the Earl of Wicklow.
Amendment put and agreed to.
I beg to move:—
To delete in line 26 the words "Parts I., II., and IV., of that Act," and to insert in lieu thereof the words "any subsequent Act now in force which is by its terms to be construed as one with the Land Purchase Acts."
This is exactly for the same purpose.
Amendment put and agreed.
Motion made and question put:
"That Section 1, as amended, stand part of the Bill."
Agreed.
Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 put and agreed to.
SECTION 7, SUB-SECTION 1.
Immediately upon the passing of this Act all lands, tenements and hereditaments situate in Saorstát Eireann which were vested in the Congested Districts Board immediately before the passing of this Act shall, without any conveyance thereof, become and be vested in the Irish Land Commission for all the estate and interest for which the same lands, tenements and hereditaments were respectively held by the Congested Districts Board.
I beg to move "To add after the word ‘in' the words ‘or held in trust for.'" Originally the Congested Districts Board were not supposed to hold any property outside their own districts and any such property which belonged to them was held in trust for them, and it is in order to bring that property in that it is desired to insert this amendment. It really relates to the Board's offices in Parnell Square which were held, being outside the Congested Districts, in trust in the names of Sir Henry Doran and Mr. W. L. Micks, and one other small trust in the West of Irealnd in the names of the same gentlemen. It is for the purpose of bringing these into the purview of this Act that these words have been inserted.
Amendment agreed to.
Amendment by theEARL of WICKLOW:—
"To add after the word ‘by' the words ‘or for.'" Agreed to.
Sub-section 1, as amended, agreed to.
Motion made and question put:
"That Section 7, as amended, stand part of the Bill."
Agreed.
Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 agreed to.
Motion made and question put:
"That the Preamble stand part of the Bill."
Agreed.
Motion made and question put:
"That the Bill, as amended, be reported to the Seanad."
Agreed.
