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COMMISSIONERS OF WORKS ACT 1852

COMMISSIONERS OF WORKS ACT 1852 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Crown Lands Act, 1851.{1}
[17th June 1852]
Commissioners of Works incorporated for the purpose of holding lands
under this Act, &c.

COMMISSIONERS OF WORKS ACT 1852 - SECT 1

1. The persons who for the time being, under the provisions of the
Crown Lands Act, 1851, shall be the Commissioners of Works shall be
and they are hereby constituted a corporation, by the name and
style of "The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public
Buildings," and by that name shall and may have perpetual
succession, and use a common seal, to be by them from time to
time altered as they shall think fit, for the purpose of taking
and holding all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever,
of every tenure, by this Act vested in them, or hereafter to be
vested in or purchased by them under or by virtue of the
provisions of this Act, and of conveying, assigning, leasing,
underleasing, or otherwise disposing of the same lands, tenements,
and hereditaments, and of entering into any covenants or agreements
respecting any such hereditaments vested or to be purchased, taken,
or disposed of as aforesaid, but not for any other purpose.Acts
under this Act may be done and exercised by the First Commissioner
or any two commissioners.

COMMISSIONERS OF WORKS ACT 1852 - SECT 2
Commissioners may purchase lands for public service, and may sell
the same, &c.

2. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Works to purchase,
take, or accept any hereditaments, of what tenure soever, necessary
for the public service, and to sell or exchange the same, and give
a good discharge for the purchase money thereof to any purchaser or
other person, and to grant any lease or leases, underlease or
underleases of any such hereditaments so taken as aforesaid, and to
enter into any agreements for such sale, exchange, lease, or
underlease; so nevertheless that all such hereditaments shall be
purchased, taken, exchanged, sold, or leased, and the produce and
income thereof applied, [with the consent of the Treasury which may
be given either generally for any class of case, or for any
particular transaction], and so as every conveyance of any freehold
hereditaments in... Ireland, made to or by the said Commissioners of
Works under the authority of this Act, be enrolled amongst the
records of the Court of Exchequer in... Ireland,...; and all acts
by this Act authorized to be done by the Commissioners of Works...
may be executed and done by the First Commissioner for the time
being of Works or by any two of the said commissioners.

S.3 rep. by SL(R) 1977

COMMISSIONERS OF WORKS ACT 1852 - SECT 5
Commissioners may sell, exchange, &c. lands and buildings not
required for their original purpose.

5. As regards such of the said lands, buildings, or other heritages
so hereby vested in the said commissioners as may not have been or
shall not be required for the purposes for which they were
acquired, the said commissioners may from time to time grant, sell,
exchange, or convey the same, and lease or agree to lease the same
till sold, exchanged, or conveyed; and the monies arising from any
such sale or lease shall be paid to the Consolidated Fund of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, but the receipts of
the said commissioners shall be sufficient discharges to any
purchaser or lessee paying any monies to them; and the said
commissioners may complete or carry into effect any contract for
sale, grant, exchange, or lease of any part of the said lands,
buildings, and heritages herein-before entered into by any trustees
of the same, or by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods,
Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, or any person or
persons on their behalf.

COMMISSIONERS OF WORKS ACT 1852 - SECT 6
No sale, &c. without consent of Treasury.

6. Provided, nevertheless, that no such sale, grant, exchange or
lease shall be made except with the consent of the Treasury.






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