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IRISH LAND ACT 1903 - SECT 52

Public trustee.

52.(1) For the purpose of the Land Purchase Acts there shall be a public
trustee.

Subs.(2) (3) rep. by SLR 1950

(4) The public trustee shall, out of money provided by Parliament, be paid
such salary as the Treasury may sanction.

(5) The public trustee may employ such officers and persons as, subject to the
sanction of the Treasury, he may find necessary for the purposes of this Act,
and those officers and persons shall be remunerated at such rates and in such
manner as the Treasury may sanction, and the expenses of and incidental to the
office of public trustee shall be paid as part of the expenses of the Land
Commission.

(6) No fees shall be payable to the public trustee for any services rendered
by him under this Act.

(7) The public trustee shall not incur any liability by reason of any act or
thing done by him, in good faith, in pursuance of the provisions of this Act.

(8) The public trustee may hold property jointly with any persons or
corporation aggregate or sole, and under that name may be entered in the books
of any company or person as holder, either alone or jointly with any person,
of stock, shares or securities entered in such books.

(9) The order of the public trustee, given under his seal, shall be a
necessary and sufficient authority to any such company or person for the
transfer of any such stock, shares and securities, so far as respects the
interest of the public trustee.

(10) Where any settled land has been purchased by means of an advance under
the Land Purchase Acts and there is no trustee of the settlement, the public
trustee may be appointed by the Land Commission to be trustee of the
settlement.

(11) Where the trustees of any such settlement refuse or neglect to invest the
purchase money in any securities authorised in pursuance of the last preceding
section, the tenant for life may apply to the Land Commission to substitute
the public trustee for those trustees, and the Land Commission may by order
make such substitution accordingly.

(12) The trustees of any such settlement may apply to the Land Commission to
be discharged from their trust and that the public trustee be appointed in
their place, and the Land Commission may, if they think fit, make an order
accordingly.

(13) Where the public trustee is appointed trustee of any settlement under the
provisions of this section, the Land Commission may make such further or other
orders as may be necessary for the purpose of vesting the trust funds in him,
or otherwise as the circumstances of the case may require.

(14) The powers conferred on the Land Commission, by the foregoing provisions of this section, may be exercised by the   Land Judge in any case where the purchase money of land,  sold under the Land Purchase Acts, is distributable or has been  distributed by him, and those provisions shall apply accordingly  with the substitution of the Land Judge for the Land Commission.


(15) Rules may be made by the Land Judge and the Land Commission, with the
approval of the Lord Lieutenant, for the purpose of carrying this section into
effect and for regulating the exercise of the powers and duties of the public
trustee, and in particular may provide that the trustee shall, on the request
of any person proposing to sell an estate, give an estimate of the probable
financial effect of such sale.

S.53 rep. by SLR 1950

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