Land Act, 1929

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR No. 31/1929
• Year: 1929

Number 31 of 1929.
LAND ACT, 1929.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section 1. Appointment of limited administrators. 2. Standard purchase annuity of holdings subject to non-judicial rents. 3. Amendment of Land Act, 1923, in respect of fisheries and fishing rights. 4. Further provisions in respect of fisheries and fishing rights. 5. Purchase of certain fisheries and fishing rights by Land Commission. 6. Power to make rules. 7. Short title, citation and construction.
Acts Referred to Land Act, 1923 No. 42 of 1923 Land Act, 1927 No. 19 of 1927 Land Bond Act, 1925 No. 25 of 1925
Number 31 of 1929.
LAND ACT, 1929.
AN ACT TO GIVE TO THE IRISH LAND COMMISSION POWER IN CERTAIN CASES TO APPOINT LIMITED ADMINISTRATORS TO DECEASED PERSONS, TO FIX THE STANDARD PURCHASE ANNUITY IN RESPECT OF HOLDINGS SUBJECT TO RENTS OTHER THAN JUDICIAL RENTS, TO EXPLAIN AND AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE LAND ACT, 1923 , IN RELATION TO FISHERIES AND FISHING RIGHTS, AND TO GIVE TO THE IRISH LAND COMMISSION POWER TO PURCHASE CERTAIN FISHERIES AND FISHING RIGHTS. [24th July, 1929.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—
	Appointment of limited administrators.	1.—Whenever, in any proceedings under the Land Purchase Acts for the exchange or consolidation of a holding or parcel of land for or with other land, the owner of such holding or parcel is dead and there is no legal personal representative of such deceased owner or the services of his legal personal representative are not conveniently available for carrying out such exchange or consolidation, the Land Commission may, on such terms and conditions (if any) as they may think fit, appoint some proper person to be administrator of the personal estate of such deceased owner limited to the said proceedings for such exchange or consolidation (as the case may be), and thereupon such limited administrator shall for the purposes of the said proceedings represent the said deceased owner in the same manner as if such owner had died intestate and letters of administration of all his personal estate and effects had been duly granted to the said limited administrator.
	Standard purchase annuity of holdings subject to non-judicial rents.	2.—(1) In the case of every holding to which Part II . of the First Schedule to the Land Act, 1923 (No. 42 of 1923), applies and in respect of which the standard purchase annuity has not been agreed upon or fixed under the said Schedule before the passing of this Act, the standard purchase annuity shall (save as is hereinafter otherwise provided) be an annuity of an amount equivalent to sixty-five per cent. of the rent payable in respect of the holding.
	(2) The landlord or the tenant of a holding to which the foregoing sub-section applies may object in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed time to the standard purchase annuity in respect of such holding being fixed in accordance with the said sub-section, and where such objection is duly so made the standard purchase annuity in respect of such holding shall be agreed upon or fixed (as the case may require) under Part II . of the First Schedule to the Land Act, 1923 , as amended by section 25 of the Land Act, 1927 (No. 19 of 1927), as if this section had not been passed.
	Amendment of Land Act, 1923, in respect of fisheries and fishing rights.	3.—(1) In the construction and application of section 45 of the Land Act, 1923 (No. 42 of 1923), the...