IRISH LAND ACT 1903 - SECT 13 Provision with respect to sporting rights and minerals.

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IRISH LAND ACT 1903 - SECT 13

Provision with respect to sporting rights and minerals.

13.(1) Where, at the time of sale of any land to the Land Commission or to
tenants or others, the vendor has, subject to the provisions of the Ground
Game Act, 1880, sporting rights, exclusive of the tenant, those rights may by
agreement between the vendor and purchaser, be either conveyed to the
purchaser or be expressly reserved to the vendor, and in the absence of such
agreement those rights shall be vested in the Land Commission, and the Land
Commission may deal with the same, subject to regulations to be made by the
Lord Lieutenant.

(2) The expression "sporting rights" includes any right of hunting, shooting,
fishing and taking game or fish on any land, and the expression "game" has the
same meaning as in section five of the Act of 1881, and also includes deer.

(3) On the sale under the Land Purchase Acts of any land by the Land
Commission, or of any land comprised in an estate by the owner of the estate,
there shall be reserved, in the prescribed manner, to the Commission the
exclusive right of mining and taking minerals and digging and searching for
minerals, on or under that land, and the said right shall be disposed of by
the Commission in manner hereafter to be provided by Parliament:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply

(a)to any demesne or other land resold in pursuance of section three of
this Act; or

(b)to any such right which constitutes a superior interest, or which is vested
in the Crown; or

(c)to any stone, gravel, sand or clay:

Provided also that, where any such right reserved to the Land Commission under
this subsection is at any time hereafter let, leased, sold or demised by them,
the vendor (or the person who would have been entitled thereto if the lands
had not been sold) shall be entitled to receive twenty-five per cent. of any
rent, purchase-money or other net profit received by the Land Commission in
respect of same, unless the Land Commission shall have purchased from the
person entitled to such percentage his interest therein, and the Land
Commission may purchase such interest at any time, on such terms as may be
sanctioned by the Treasury.

(4) Where any right mentioned in this section is so reserved, there shall be
attached thereto a right to enter upon the land in respect of which the
first-mentioned right may be exercised, and to authorise any persons so to do;
but any person entering upon land in pursuance of this subsection shall be
liable to make reasonable amends and satisfaction for any damage done or
occasioned thereby.

(5) Any person authorised, by or in pursuance of the last preceding
subsection, to enter upon land for the purpose of exercising a sporting right
shall have the same authority to prosecute for trespass in pursuit of game or
fish as if he were the occupier of that land.

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IRISH LAND ACT 1903 - SECT 13