FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 2 Powers of Ministry, subject to approval of Ministry of Finance.

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FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 2

Powers of Ministry, subject to approval of Ministry of Finance.

2.(1) The Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance

(a)purchase or take on lease or otherwise acquire by agreement any land which
in the opinion of the Ministry

(i)is suitable for forestry; or

(ii)is needed for purposes connected with forestry or with the management of
any wood or forest; or

<(iii)must necessarily be acquired as being ancillary or supplemental to any land acquired for any of the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph;


(b)sell or let any land acquired under or by virtue of this Act or any
enactment repealed by this Act, or exchange any such land for any other land
and (where requisite on any such exchange) pay or receive money for equality
of exchange, or grant rights on or over any such land;

(c)erect such buildings and execute such works as the Ministry may consider
necessary for purposes connected with forestry on any land acquired by the
Ministry;

(d)purchase or take on lease, or otherwise acquire by agreement the right to
possession of, any buildings or works required for any function of the
Ministry under this Act, and sell or let or otherwise part with the possession
of any buildings or works no longer required for any of those purposes;

(e)make, on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Ministry may
think fit, grants to any persons in respect of the afforestation (including
the clearing, draining, fencing, planting or replanting, and maintenance) of
land owned by those persons;

(f)establish and carry on or aid in the establishment and carrying on of
woodland industries;

(g)promote and develop instruction and training in forestry by establishing or
aiding schools or other educational institutions or in such other manner as
the Ministry may think fit.

(2) For the purpose of making grants under paragraph (e) of the preceding
sub-section the Ministry may treat any person who appears to the Ministry to
have a substantial estate or interest in any land as the owner of that land.

Subs. (3) spent

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