LegalizeSTATE LANDS ACT, 1924
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1 amending act · 1954-12-09, STATE PROPERTY ACT, 1954
AN ACT TO AUTHORISE THE MAKING OF LEASES AND THE GRANTING OF LICENCES IN RELATION TO LANDS WHICH BY VIRTUE OF ARTICLE 11 OF THE CONSTITUTION BELONG TO SAORSTÁT EIREANN. [5th August, 1924.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—
1 Minister for Finance may make leases or licences of State lands.
1.—(1) If in the opinion of the Minister for Finance it is in the public interest that any land which by virtue of Article 11 of the Constitution belongs to Saorstát Eireann should be granted by way of lease or licence to any person, the said Minister may by deed under his official seal either—
- (a) demise such lands or any part thereof, with the buildings, if any, thereon but without the mines and minerals therein, to such person by way of lease for such term not exceeding ninety-nine years as the said Minister shall think proper, or
- (b) grant to such person a licence to use and occupy such lands with the buildings, if any, thereon but without the mines and minerals therein, for such term not exceeding ninety-nine years as the said Minister shall think proper.
- (2) Every lease or licence made or granted under this section shall (unless the Minister for Finance is of opinion that such lease or licence should in the public interest be made or granted free of any payment) be made or granted subject to the payment to the Minister for Finance for the use of the Central Fund of such moneys whether by way of fine or other preliminary payment or by way of rent or other periodical payment or by both such ways, as the said Minister shall think proper and shall agree upon with the person to whom such lease or licence is made or granted.
- (3) Every such lease or licence as aforesaid shall be made or granted subject to and shall contain such covenants, conditions, and agreements (other than for the renewal of the lease or licence) as the Minister for Finance shall consider proper or desirable in the public interest or otherwise and shall agree upon with the person to whom such lease or licence is made or granted.
- (4) No lease or licence made or granted under this section shall relate or extend to or include any mines or minerals.
2 Statement of lease or licence to be laid before Oireachtas.
2.—(1) Where the Minister for Finance proposes to make or grant a lease or licence under this Act he shall lay before each House of the Oireachtas a statement showing the person to whom such lease or licence is proposed to be made or granted, the property proposed to be included in such lease or licence, the fine, rent, or other payments (if any) proposed to be charged for such lease or licence, and the covenants, conditions, and agreements proposed to be inserted in such lease or licence.
- (2) No lease or licence shall be made or granted under this Act until either—
- (a) each House of the Oireachtas has by resolution authorised the making or granting of such lease or licence either with or without modification of any of the proposed provisions of such lease or licence, or
- (b) the expiration of whichever of the following periods shall be the longer, that is to say:—
- (i) twenty-one days after the first day on which either House of the Oireachtas shall sit next after the statement in accordance with this section shall have been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas, or
- (ii) twelve days on which either House of the Oireachtas shall have sat after the said statement shall have been so laid before the Houses.
- (3) Where a resolution of either House of the Oireachtas authorises the making or granting of a licence under this Act subject to any modification of the proposed provisions of such lease or licence, such lease or licence shall not be granted save with and subject to such modification of its provisions.
- (4) This section shall not apply to any lease or licence which may be made or granted under this Act and within three months after the passing thereof in relation to any of the lands and buildings specified in the Schedule to this Act or to any part of those lands or buildings and in accordance with the proposals specified in the said Schedule.
3 Short title.
3.—This Act may be cited as the State Lands Act, 1924.
SCHEDULE.
| Lands and Buildings | Purpose of proposed lease or licence | Proposed lessee or licensee | Duration of proposed lease or licence | Terms of proposed lease or licence |
| 1. The lands and buildings formerly known as Richmond Barracks and now known as Keogh Barracks, situate in the City of Dublin. | Housing of the working classes. | Council of the County Borough of Dublin | 99 years | Terms to be settled by arbitration. |
| 2. The lands and buildings known as Nos. 23, 24 and 25 Pearse St., situate in the Parish of St. Mark and City of Dublin. | Commercial purposes, Premises no longer required for State purposes. | Mr. B. B. Hopkins, Tailor & Outfitter, 26 Pearse Street, Dublin. | 99 years | Payment of fine of £1625 and sub-leases for 99 years on same terms as the premises are held by the State. No. 23 is held on lease expiring in September, 1930, at a rent of £60 per annum, lessor paying rates, and from September, 1930, on lease for 900 years at a rent of £70 per annum, lessee paying rates. Nos. 24 and 25 are held on lease for 999 years from 1904, at a rent of £140 per annum, lessor paying rates. |
| 3. The lands and buildings known as No. 14 Upper Sack-ville St. (commonly called Upper O'Connell Street) situate in the Parish of St. Thomas and City of Dublin. | Commercial or other purposes. Site no longer required for State purposes. | — | Will not exceed 99 years. | — |
| 4. The lands and buildings known as No. 15 Upper Sack-ville St. (commonly called Upper O'Connell St.), situate in the Parish of St. Thomas and City of Dublin. | Commercial or other purposes. Site no longer required for State purposes. | — | Will not exceed 99 years | — |
| 5. Part of the lands of Tallaght, now or lately used as an aerodrome and known as Tallaght Aerodrome, containing nine acres or thereabouts, statute measure, situate in the Barony of Uppercross and County of Dublin. | Commercial purposes. Premises no longer required for State purposes. | Messrs. Urney Chocolates, Ltd., 14 Lr. O'Connell St., Dublin. | 99 years | Arent of £50 per annum for the land. A rent-charge of £300 a year running for 15 years, in consideration of the buildings, lessees to pay rates. Water to be supplied at rate to be agreed upon. Fencing and sewage tank to be maintained by lessees. |
| 6. The lands and buildings situate in King Street, in the town of Clonmel and South Riding of the County of Tipperary, comprising a rifle range and military drill and exercise ground, and containing eighteen acres, three roods and thirty-eight perches, or thereabouts, Statute Measure. | Housing of the working classes. | Clonmel Urban District Council. | 99 years | Terms to be settled by arbitation. |
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