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LAND TRUST (POWERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1923 - SECT 1

1.(1) The Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust (in this section referred to
as "the Trust") shall have and may exercise all the powers which are necessary
to enable the Trust to carry out, as respects Northern Ireland, the purposes
of section three of the Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922
(Session 2), (which section is set out in the Schedule to this Act and is in
this section referred to as "the scheduled enactment"), whether being powers
conferred upon the Trust by the scheduled enactment or by regulations made
thereunder:

Provided that the Trust shall not have as respects Northern Ireland any power
of compulsory acquisition of land.

(2) The Ministry of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland shall have power to
acquire land otherwise than by agreement for transfer to the Trust, and shall,
for the purpose of such acquisition, have all the powers which are conferred
upon the Local Government Board for Ireland by virtue of section four of the
Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919, including power to
carry out and complete any scheme made by the said Board before the sixth day
of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, so far as respects the
compulsory acquisition of land thereunder, in like manner as if the
proceedings taken by the Board before the said date had been taken by the said
Ministry of Home Affairs in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by
this Act.

Subs. (3) spent

(4) If arrangements are made by the Trust for the exercise and performance on
behalf of the Trust of any powers or duties of the Trust by any department of
the Government of Northern Ireland or officers thereof, that department or
officers shall have and may exercise, to such extent and on such terms and
conditions as may be agreed, the powers conferred upon the Trust, as respects
Northern Ireland, by this Act and the scheduled enactment.

(5) Paragraph (d) of sub-section (4), and sub-sections (7) and (8), of section
four of the Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919, shall
not apply to the powers conferred on the said Ministry of Home Affairs by this
section, and the power of making orders adapting enactments conferred on the
Local Government Board for Ireland by sub-section (6) of the said section four
may be exercised by means of orders made by the Trust and the said Ministry of
Home Affairs jointly.. This Act may be cited as the Land Trust (Powers) Act
(Northern Ireland), 1923.

Establishment of a trust for the provision of cottages, etc., for ex-service
men in Ireland.

3.(1) For the purpose of providing in Ireland cottages, with or without plots
or gardens, for the accommodation of men who served in any of His Majesty's
naval, military, or air forces in the late war, and for other purposes
incidental thereto, a body shall be established consisting of five members, of
whom three shall be appointed by a Secretary of State, one by the President of
the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, and one by the Prime Minister
of Northern Ireland.

(2) The body so established shall be a body corporate by the name of the Irish
Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust, with perpetual succession and a common seal,
and is in this section referred to as "the Trust."

(3) For the purposes aforesaid, the Trust shall have all the powers which are
conferred upon the Local Government Board for Ireland by section four of the
Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919, including power to
carry out the schemes made under that section by that Board prior to the
passing of this Act, and such powers of management, sale, disposal and
otherwise as may be conferred on them by regulations made by the Treasury, and
all property, assets, rights and liabilities held, enjoyed or borne by the
Local Government Board for Ireland in connection with any schemes so made by
them shall be transferred to the Trust:

Provided that the provisions of the said section relating to the compulsory
acquisition of land, limiting the time within which the power to acquire land
may be exercised by the Board, and regulating the expenses and receipts and
audit of accounts of the Board shall not apply to the Trust.

(4) There shall be paid to the Trust out of moneys provided by Parliament, at
such times and in such instalments as the Treasury may direct, a sum not
exceeding one million five hundred thousand pounds, and the sum so received
and all other receipts of the Trust shall be applied by the Trust to the
purposes for which the Trust is created.

(5) The Treasury may make regulations as to the procedure of the Trust and as
to the application of the proceeds of sale, and as to the audit of the
accounts of the Trust, and generally as to the manner in which the Trust shall
carry out their powers and duties, and the Trust shall act in accordance with
those regulations.

(6) The term of office of a member of the Trust shall be such as may be
determined by the authority by whom he is appointed, but the Trust may act
notwithstanding any vacancy in their number.

(7) This section shall not come into operation until the Treasury certify that
such legislation has been passed by the Parliament of the Irish Free State and
the Parliament of Northern Ireland as is necessary to enable the Trust to
acquire and to hold land, to vest in the Trust any land and other property
which is under this section to be transferred to the Trust, and otherwise to
enable the Trust to carry out the purposes of this section.

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