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STORMONT REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)
1933

STORMONT REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)
1933 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision with respect to the regulation of the
Stormont Estate and the purchase and disposal of land for the
public services.
[28th March 1933]
Power to make regulations as to Stormont Estate.

STORMONT REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)
1933 - SECT 1

1.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act the Ministry of Finance
may make such regulations with respect to the Stormont Estate as
the said Ministry may consider necessary for all or any of the
following purposes:

(a)for the admission of the public to the Stormont Estate, at such
times, and upon such conditions, as may be specified in the
regulations; and

(b)for specifying the parts of the Stormont Estate to which the
public may be admitted or to which any such regulations apply; and

(c)for securing the proper supervision of the Stormont Estate, or
any specified part thereof, and the preservation of order and
prevention of abuses therein.

(2) Any person who fails to comply with, or acts in contravention
of, any regulations made under this section shall be liable on
conviction to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

(3) Copies of regulations made under this section shall be displayed
at the Stormont Estate in such manner as the Ministry may consider
best adapted for giving information to persons affected by the
regulations.

(4) All regulations made under this section shall, so soon as may
be after they are made, be laid before each House of Parliament.
If either House of Parliament, within the statutory period next
after any regulation made as aforesaid has been laid before such
House, resolves that the regulation shall be annulled, the regulation
shall, after the date of the resolution, be void, but without
prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or
to the making of a new regulation.

STORMONT REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)
1933 - SECT 2
Powers and duties of rangers and police.

2.(1) Any person appointed by the Ministry of Finance to secure the
observance of the regulations made under the foregoing provisions of
this Act and in force with respect to the Stormont Estate (in this
Act referred to as a "ranger") shall, in such part of the Estate
as may be specified in the regulations, have all such powers,
privileges and immunities, be liable to perform such duties, and be
subject to such responsibilities, as if such ranger were a constable
of the Royal Ulster Constabulary on duty.

A ranger shall obey such lawful commands as he may from time to
time receive from the Ministry of Finance in respect of his conduct
in the execution of his office.

(2) A ranger in uniform, and any persons whom such ranger may call
to his assistance, may take into custody, without a warrant, any
person who in such part of the Stormont Estate as aforesaid within
the view of such ranger fails to comply with or acts in
contravention of any regulation made by the Ministry of Finance
under this Act, in any case where the name and residence of the
person offending is unknown to, and cannot be ascertained by, such
ranger. A person so taken into custody may be handed over to, and
kept in custody by, an officer or constable of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary; and the ranger by whom a person has been so handed
over shall, as soon as may be, take such steps as may be proper
to have that person dealt with according to law.

(3) Where any person offending as aforesaid, on being required by a
ranger or by an officer or constable of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary to give his name and address, gives a false name or
false address, such person shall on conviction be liable to a
penalty not exceeding five pounds.

(4) Where any person is convicted by a court of summary
jurisdiction of an assault upon a ranger when in the execution of
his duty, such person shall be liable in the discretion of the
court either

(a)to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds and in default of
payment to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months; or

(b)to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months.

(5) Arrangements may be made between the Ministry of Finance and
the Ministry of Home Affairs whereby officers and constables of the
Royal Ulster Constabulary shall have the powers and duties of a
ranger within the Stormont Estate; and, if such arrangements are
made, the provisions of this section shall have effect accordingly.

STORMONT REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)
1933 - SECT 3
Prosecutions and application of penalties.

3.(1) All offences against this Act or any regulations made under
this Act shall be prosecuted, and all penalties under this Act
shall be recovered, in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction
(Ireland) Acts;...

(2) Proceedings in respect of an offence against this Act or any
regulations made under this Act may, without prejudice to any other
manner of proceeding authorised by the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland)
Acts, be brought before and determined by any court of summary
jurisdiction within the jurisdiction of which any part of the
Stormont Estate is situate.

Subs.(3) rep. by 1954 c.9 (NI) s.29 sch.7

STORMONT REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)
1933 - SECT 4
Savings as to certain powers and rights.

4.(1) The powers conferred by the foregoing provisions of this Act
shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any powers
exercisable by the Ministry of Finance or any officer or servant of
the said Ministry apart from this Act; and the last-mentioned powers
may be exercised as if this Act had not been passed.

(2) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Act, or in any
regulations made thereunder, shall be deemed to confer upon the
public

(a)any right of access to or user of the Stormont Estate, or

(b)any right of way over, or other right whatever in relation to,
the Stormont Estate.

STORMONT REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)
1933 - SECT 5
Provisions as to taking and disposal of land for the public
services.

5.(1) The Ministry of Finance may purchase by agreement or take on
lease any land, where the same is required for the purpose of any
powers or duties of the said Ministry or for the administration of
any public service in Northern Ireland.

(2) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained in this section,
the Ministry of Finance may sell, exchange, lease or surrender on
any terms any land for the time being vested in that Ministry, and
on any such exchange may give or receive any money for equality of
exchange; and that Ministry may sell either by public auction or by
private contract, and may make any stipulations, as to title or
otherwise, in any conditions of sale or contract for sale or
exchange.

(3) On any sale, exchange, lease or surrender, the Ministry of
Finance may stipulate for, create or reserve all such rights or
easements as may be deemed proper.

(4) With the consent of the Ministry of Finance, any other Ministry
of Northern Ireland may exercise, with respect to land for the time
being vested in such other Ministry for the purpose of its powers
or duties, the like powers as are conferred on the Ministry of
Finance by sub-sections (2) and (3) of this section.

(5) A sale, exchange, lease, or surrender of land under this
section shall be at the best price or for the best rent or
otherwise on the best terms which, in the opinion of the Ministry
of Finance, can reasonably be obtained:

Provided that a nominal price or rent, or a price or rent or
terms other than the best that can reasonably be obtained, may be
accepted by the Ministry of Finance, or, with the consent of that
Ministry, by any other Ministry, in a case where

(i)the land is to be sold, leased, or otherwise transferred to a
local authority, or to a body or persons not trading for profit
and authorised by or under any enactment to carry on a public
undertaking; and

(ii)the Ministry of Finance is satisfied that such sale, lease or
transfer will result in the development, improvement or general
benefit of any land held by a Ministry of Northern Ireland.

(6) .... any moneys received by a Ministry in respect of any
transaction carried out by such Ministry in the exercise of any
power conferred upon it by this section shall be paid to the
Exchequer of Northern Ireland....

(7) The provisions of this section shall not have effect

(a)so as to enable the hereditaments described in the Schedule to
this Act to be sold, exchanged, leased or surrendered;

(b)so as to affect the power of any Ministry of Northern Ireland
to purchase, take on lease, sell, exchange, lease or surrender any
land for the purposes of any instrument under which such Ministry
acts as trustee;

(c)so as to apply to the purchase, taking on lease, sale, exchange,
lease or surrender of land by a Ministry of Northern Ireland in
any case where power in that behalf is conferred on such Ministry
by any enactments other than this section.

STORMONT REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)
1933 - SECT 6
Interpretation.

6.(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the
following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that
is to say:

"Land" includes buildings and water and any interests in land or
water and any easement or right in, to or over land or water:

"Lease" includes the granting of land at a rent for a term of
years or in perpetuity, and with or without the payment of a fine:

"Statutory period" means ...

definition in 1954 c.33 (NI) s.41(2) substituted by 1979 NI12 art.10

"Stormont Estate" means the Stormont Castle Demesne including all
land at Stormont for the time being held for the public purposes
of the Parliament and Government of Northern Ireland.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1954 c.33 (NI) s.48(1) sch.

STORMONT REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND)
1933 - SECT 7
Short title.

7. This Act may be cited as the Stormont Regulation and Government
Property Act (Northern Ireland), 1933.

1. The lands, buildings and premises at Stormont in the Townlands
of Ballymiscaw, Killeen and Ballycloughan, in the Barony of
Castlereagh Lower and County of Down, described in an Indenture made
the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-one, between Arthur Charles Stewart Cleland of the first part,
Colonel Sir Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith, Bart., K.C.M.G., and Andrew
Leyland Hillyar Cleland of the second part, and the Commissioners of
His Majesty's Works and Public Buildings of the third part, and
intended to be conveyed by the said Commissioners to the Ministry
of Finance for Northern Ireland.

Para.2 rep. by 1955 c.2 (NI) s.1(3)