A.D. 1927. Power to pay for improve ments out of capital. Amendments of 10 Geo. 4. c. 50. (2) All money, not being rent, received on the exercise by the Commissioners of Crown Lands of the powers conferred by this section, shall, unless the Treasury otherwise directs, be carried to the account of the capital of the land revenues of the Crown. Powers as to Improvements. 5 14. The Treasury may by any general or special directions given by them authorise the Commissioners of Crown Lands to charge as a principal sum to the account of the capital of the land revenues of the Crown 10 the costs, charges and expenses incurred by them in the making or execution of, or in connection with and for the benefit of Crown lands of any of the works mentioned in the Third Schedule to the Settled Land Act, 1925, or of any works for any of the purposes mentioned 15 in that schedule, and any operation incident to or necessary or proper in the execution of any of those works, or necessary or proper for carrying into effect any of those purposes, or for securing the full benefit of any of those works or purposes; and the Treasury may 20 if they think fit direct that any sums paid out of capital in accordance with such authorisation as aforesaid shall be repaid out of the income of the land revenues of the Crown within such time and by such instalments as they may direct. Amendments of Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1894. 25 15.-(1) Section seventy-seven of the Crown Lands Act, 1829, and so much of any other enactment as confers an exemption from stamp duty in respect of any instrument or other document whatsoever made or executed by or with 30 the Commissioners of Crown Lands, shall cease to have effect. (2) Section eighty of the Crown Lands Act, 1829 (which requires any person appointed to be a receiver of the issue, revenues and profits of the possessions 35 and land revenues of the Crown to be by profession a surveyor of lands or land steward, and accustomed to act as such, or otherwise skilled in the management and cultivation of lands and to reside in the district for which he is appointed), and section eighty-five of 40 the said Act (which requires any person appointed to A.D. 1927. be a receiver as aforesaid to give security) shall cease to have effect. & 15 Vict. c. 42. 16. (1) So much of section seven of the Crown Amend5 Lands Act, 1851, as requires officers appointed after the ments of 14 commencement of that Act for the Department of the Commissioners of Crown Lands to be appointed by the Treasury, shall cease to have effect, and all such officers may subject to the consent of the Treasury be appointed 10 by the Commissioners of Crown Lands. (2) For the purpose of removing doubts, it is hereby declared that the powers of management conferred upon the Commissioners of Crown Lands by section twenty-three of the Crown Lands Act, 1851, with 15 respect to all such houses, gardens and portions of ground within any of the Royal Parks referred to in that section and mentioned in the foregoing provisions of that Act as were at the date of the passing of that Act leased or agreed to be leased, shall be deemed 20 always to have included power, notwithstanding anything in section twenty-five of the Crown Lands Act, 1829, to grant from time to time upon the termination of any lease a new lease of any such house, garden or portion of ground as aforesaid. 25 s. 5. 17. For the purpose of removing doubts it is hereby Explanation declared that the power conferred by section five of the of 15 & 16 Vict. c. 62. Crown Lands Act, 1852, on the Commissioners of Crown Lands to make a sale, exchange, or other conveyance of Crown lands subject to conditions includes power to 30 make any such conveyance subject to a condition of re-entry exerciseable for any reason, and any right arising from a breach of such a condition may, notwithstanding anything in any Act, be exercised either before or after the expiration of the period authorised by the rule 35 relating to perpetuities. Vict. c. 43. 8. 5. 18. The power conferred on the Commissioners of Amendment Crown Lands by section five of the Crown Lands Act, of 57 & 58 1894, to make, with the consent of the Treasury, out of the income of the land revenues of the Crown, donations 40 of money for any religious or educational purposes connected with land under the management of the Commissioners, or for the purposes of any hospital, infirmary, A.D. 1927. or cemetery, shall be extended so as to permit the making, with the like consent, of such donations for any charitable or other purposes tending to the benefit of persons residing or employed on land under the management of the Commissioners. Transfer to London Fund of investments Miscellaneous. 5 19. Whereas in accordance with section nine of the Public Offices Site Act, 1882, certain investments and moneys are now held in the names of the Commissioners of Crown Lands, and the said Commissioners may under 10 and moneys that section with the consent of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese of London, from time to time apply the said investments and moneys in or towards the cost of providing a church or chapel or of enlarging a church or chapel in the said diocese only after having 15 regard to the advantage which any lessees or tenants of the Crown, their servants and dependants may derive or be likely to derive from the proximity of the church or chapel to Crown property: held by Commissioners of Crown Lands under 45 & 46 Vict. c. 32. s. 9. Transfer to Diocesan Finance of trust funds held by Commissioners of Crown Lands and Bishop of Gloucester under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 65. And whereas it is no longer necessary that regard 20 should be had to such matters as aforesaid, and it is expedient that the said investments and moneys should be transferred to the London Diocesan Fund: Be it therefore enacted that the whole or any part of the said investments and moneys may be transferred 25 by the Commissioners of Crown Lands to the said London Diocesan Fund for the purpose of being applied in the erection or repair of churches in any part of the said diocese. 20. Whereas under an Act passed in the fifth and 30 sixth years of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Victoria intituled an Act to divide the Forest of Dean in the County of Gloucester into Ecclesiastical districts, a sum of one thousand three hundred and thirty-three pounds six shillings and eight pence two and a half per 35 cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities is held by the Commissioners of Crown Lands and the Bishop of Gloucester upon trust to apply the dividends thereof as a fund for the maintaining and repairing of the fabrics of the chapels of Christ Church, Holy Trinity, Saint Paul, and 40 of a chapel at Cinderford, in the respective Ecclesiastical districts in that Act mentioned: And whereas it is expedient that the said investments A.D. 1927. should be transferred to the Gloucester Diocesan Board of Finance: Be it therefore enacted as follows: (1) The Commissioners of Crown Lands and Provided that the said Board may at any (2) A request in writing addressed to the Bank General. tion. 21.-(1) No purchase or sale, except a purchase or Treasury sale where the purchase money does not exceed one authorisa thousand pounds, and no exchange, lease or grant (not 30 being a sale excepted as aforesaid) shall be made by the Commissioners of Crown Lands under any of the powers conferred on them by the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1906, or this Act, without the authority of the Treasury. (2) For the purposes of this section the authority of 35 the Treasury may be given either generally for any class of case or for any particular purchase, sale, exchange, lease or grant, and may be signified under the hand of a secretary to the Treasury or of some person authorised in that behalf by the Treasury. A D. 1927. Interpretation. 66 22.-(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say :Building purposes include the erecting and the improving of, and the adding to, and the 5 repairing of buildings; and a building lease " is a lease for any building purposes or purposes connected therewith; 66 66 "Crown land" means the possessions and land "Lease" includes an agreement for a lease; or lordship; and "manorial incident" has the 30 in "Mines and minerals " mean mines and minerals |