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LEASING POWERS ACT FOR RELIGIOUS WORSHIP IN IRELAND 1855 - SECT 3

Power to persons entitled in possession to certain interests in lands in Ireland empowered to make leases.

3. Every person herein-after described entitled in possession to any estate or
interest herein-after named in lands in Ireland, or to the receipt of any
rents and profits thereof, whether or not such estate shall be subject to any
mortgage or other incumbrance (provided the incumbrancer shall not be in
possession) shall have power to make leases of any part of the said lands,
(other than the mansion house, and demesne lands or parks, plantations,
gardens, orchards, or pleasure grounds, and appurtenances, belonging to or
usually occupied with such mansion house,) and not exceeding in the whole five
acres, for the purposes and periods of time, and subject to the rents, rights
of apportionment of rent, covenants, and conditions, herein stated: (that is
to say,)

(1)Her Majesty the Queen; the Commissioners of Woods in respect of lands
situate in Ireland:

(2)Tenants in fee simple or fee farm, or seised of any other perpetual estate,
subject to any mortgage or incumbrance:

(3)Tenants in tail... of an estate of inheritance...:

(4)Tenants for the term of their own lives, not being jointresses or for the
life or lives of any other person or persons, or for so many years as they may
live, or any partial owner for an unexpired term of years, not being less than
sixty years in its inception, and whether absolute or determinable on a life,
created out of an estate of inheritance or perpetual interest by any
settlement, and not in consideration of or subject to any rent reserved
thereby:

Para.(5) rep. by 1937 c.9 (NI) s.13(2) sch.2; SLR 1973; SLR 1976; paras.(6)(7)
rep. by 1937 c.9 (NI) s.13(2) sch.2

(9)Corporations lay, eleemosynary, and collegiate, whether aggregate or sole:
Provided, that no lease made by any municipal corporation or board of
guardians of the poor shall be valid without the licence in writing, in the
case of a municipal corporation, of the Treasury, and in the case of such
board of guardians of the poor, of the Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland,
such licence to be written on or annexed to the said lease:

<(10)Trustees... of charitable uses of a public nature, and seised or possessed of an estate in fee simple, fee farm, or other perpetual interest:


<(11)Trustees under any will or settlement entitled in fee simple or for a perpetual interest or to any estate specified in number (4), and having a power to sell the same: Provided, however, that when such power is to be exercised with the consent of any person, no such lease shall be valid without such consent.


And with respect to cases of disability of parties otherwise entitled to make
leases:


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