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Uimhir 2 de 1965.
AN tACHT TALÚN, 1965
[An tiontú oifigiúil]
Mínithe.
1.—San Acht seo, ach amháin mar a n-éilíonn an comhthéacs a mhalairt,—
tá le “limistéar cúng” an bhrí a thugtar dó le fo-alt (1) d'alt 4;
ciallaíonn “an tAire” an tAire Tailte;
ciallaíonn an briathar “forordú” forordú leis na rialacha nó na rialacháin iomchuí dá dtagraítear in alt 2;
ciallaíonn “oibreacha” oibreacha ar bith agus folaíonn sé aon abhainn, sruthán, sruthchúrsa aiceanta nó saorga, canáil, draein, linn, loch nó limistéar eile faoi uisce, agus aon phort nó claífort, aiceanta nó saorga;
déanfar gach tagairt do ghabháltas nó do thalamh a fhorléiriú mar thagairt a fholaíonn tagairt do chuid nó do chodanna de ghabháltas nó de thalamh agus do dháileacht talún ina hiomláine nó i bpáirt agus d'oidhreachtán neamhchorprach ina iomláine nó i bpáirt;
déanfar gach tagairt d'airgead ceannaigh a fhorléiriú mar thagairt a fholaíonn tagairt d'aon phraghas fuascailte uasleasa, d'aon phraghas atógála, d'aon chúiteamh nó d'aon chiste, agus d'aon iarmhar den phraghas fuascailte sin, den phraghas atógála sin, den chúiteamh nó den chiste sin, agus d'aon scair sa phraghas fuascailte sin, sa phraghas atógála sin, sa chúiteamh nó sa chiste sin, agus d'aon iarmhar den scair sin.
Rialacha agus rialacháin.
2.—(1) An chumhacht chun rialacha a dhéanamh a thugtar le fo-ailt (1) agus (2) d'alt 3 den Acht Talmhan, 1933, beidh réim aici i gcás rialacha chun forálacha an Achta seo (seachas forálacha a bhaineann le hairgeadas talamh-cheannaigh) a chur i gcrích agus beidh sí infheidhmithe chun na rialacha sin a dhéanamh.
(2) Féadfaidh an tAire Airgeadais rialacha agus rialacháin a dhéanamh chun forálacha an Achta seo maidir le hairgeadas talamh-cheannaigh a chur i gcrích agus féadfaidh sé leis na rialacha agus na rialacháin sin aon fhorálacha maidir le hairgeadas talamh-cheannaigh atá in aon Acht a ritheadh roimh an Acht seo a oiriúnú do riachtanas an Achta seo.
Íocaíochtaí agus caiteachais.
3.—Íocfar as airgead a sholáthróidh an tOireachtas, a mhéid a cheadóidh an tAire Airgeadais é, na híocaíochtaí a dhéanfaidh, agus na caiteachais faoina rachaidh, an tAire agus Coimisiún na Talún ag tabhairt éifeacht don Acht seo agus á riaradh.
Ordú á dhearbhú go bhfuil limistéar ina limistéar cúng.
4.—(1) Is limistéar cúng gach limistéar acu seo a leanas chun críocha an Achta seo—
(a) contae nó cuid de chontae a shonraítear sa Dara Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Acht seo;
(b) cibé limistéar eile a dhearbhófar ó am go ham le hordú ón Aire a bheith ina limistéar cúng.
(2) Nuair a bheidh ordú á dhéanamh ag an Aire faoi fho-alt (1) den alt seo, tabharfaidh sé aird ar mhéid na ngabháltas, ar mhianach na talún agus ar an gcineál nó na cineálacha feirmeoireachta a bhíonn ar siúl sa limistéar a dhearbhófar a bheith ina limistéar cúng.
(3) Féadfaidh an tAire, le hordú, ordú faoi fho-alt (1) den alt seo a leasú nó a chúlghairm.
Airleacain do dhaoine i limistéir chúnga chun talamh a cheannach.
5.—(1) Féadfaidh Coimisiún na Talún, de réir rialachán faoin alt seo, airleacan a thabhairt do dhuine cáilithe i ndáil le ceannach talún aige.
(2) (a) Féadfaidh an tAire, le toiliú an Aire Airgeadais, rialacháin a dhéanamh chun éifeacht a thabhairt don alt seo, agus féadfaidh cibé forálacha forlíontacha nó fo-ghabhálacha is fóirsteanach leis an Aire a bheith in aon rialacháin den sórt sin.
(b) Féadfaidh rialacháin faoi alt seo, go sonrach ach gan dochar do ghinearáltacht mhír (a) den fho-alt seo, foráil a dhéanamh maidir le gach ní nó aon ní acu seo a leanas—
(i) an t-airleacan a mhuirearú ar an talamh, cibé acu trí ordú muirir arna dhéanamh ag Coimisiún na Talún nó ar dhóigh eile é;
(ii) Coimisiún na Talún d'fháil urrúis, cibé acu trí mhuirear nó ar dhóigh eile é, i leith airleacain faoin alt seo;
(iii) méid aon airleacain faoin alt seo;
(iv) modh aisíoctha airleacain faoin alt seo;
(v) ús a íoc ar airleacan faoin alt seo;
(vi) íoc táille nó táillí ag duine cáilithe le Coimisiún na Talún as iniúchadh nó iniúchtaí a mheasfaidh Coimisiún na Talún a bheith riachtanach maidir le hiarratas ar airleacan faoin alt seo;
(vii) feidhmiú cibé forálacha sna hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh nó san Acht um Míntíriú Talún, 1949, a mheasfaidh an tAire a bheith riachtanach, maidir le dílsiú talún agus le cionroinnt, comhdhlúthú, muirearú agus gnóthú airleacan faoin alt seo, agus oiriúnú tagairtí sna forálacha sin nuair is gá é.
(3) (a) Ní bheidh dleacht stampa inmhuirir ar aon ionstraim a dhéanfar chun críche an ailt seo.
(b) Ní dhéanfaidh Clárlann na nGníomhas aon táille ná íocaíocht eile a mhuirearú ná a fhorchur maidir le haon doiciméad is gá le haghaidh nó i leith airleacain faoin alt seo.
(4) San alt seo—
ciallaíonn “duine cáilithe” duine (lena n-áirítear comhúinéir nó tionónta i gcoiteannas) ar chóir, i dtuairim Choimisiún na Talún, airleacan a thabhairt dó, agus is tionónta nó dílseánach ar ghabháltas—
(a) atá i limistéar cúng,
(b) atá oiriúnach, i dtuairim Choimisiún na Talún, chun críocha talamh a shocrú, agus
(c) a gcomhaontófar é a dhíol le Coimisiún na Talún laistigh de cibé tréimhse a bheidh sonraithe i rialacháin faoin alt seo.
Blianacht saoil a dheonú faoin Acht seo.
6.—(1) Aon uair a dhéanfaidh duine (dá ngairtear an díoltóir san alt seo) atá sean, éagumasaithe nó dall, leas i dtalamh a dhíol dá dheoin féin le Coimisiún na Talún (cibé acu go leithleach, i gcomhpháirt, nó i gcoiteannas atá an leas sin á theachtadh), féadfaidh Coimisiún na Talún, de rogha an díoltóra, agus in ionad iomlán an phraghais cheannaigh nó cuid de a íoc in airgead, blianacht saoil a dheonú don díoltóir de réir rialachán faoin alt seo.
(2) Is é luach a bheidh ar bhlianacht saoil faoin alt seo cibé luach a bheidh, ar an dáta a chríochnófar díol an leasa, comhionann go hachtúireach (de réir cibé táblaí a bheidh ar an dáta sin arna gceadú ag an Aire Airgeadais chun críocha an ailt seo) leis an iomlán nó le cuid den phraghas ceannaigh ar in ionad a íoctha a dheonaítear an bhlianacht saoil.
(3) I gcás díoltóra a bheidh pósta ar an dáta a chríochnófar an díol, má bhíonn céile an díoltóra sin (gan leas a bheith ag an gcéile sin i gcomhpháirt ná i gcoiteannas sa talamh) beo ar an dáta sin, ríomhfar blianacht faoin Acht seo ar dhóigh go gcuirfidh sí ar fáil—
(a) blianacht (dá ngairtear blianacht phríomha san Acht seo agus in aon rialacháin faoin alt seo) is míoctha go dtí go bhfaighidh an díoltóir, nó céile an díoltóra, bás, agus
(b) blianacht (dá ngairtear blianacht thánaisteach san Acht seo agus in aon rialacháin faoin alt seo) de mhéid is ionann agus leath na blianachta príomha is iníoctha ón dáta a gheobhaidh an díoltóir, nó céile an díoltóra, bás go dtí go bhfaighidh an céile marthanach bás.
(4) Féadfaidh díoltóir a bheidh, ar an dáta a chríochnófar an díol, gan pósadh nó ina bhaintreach fir nó ina baintreach duine is cleithiúnaí ar an díoltóir a ainmniú, agus, má aontaíonn Coimisiún na Talún leis an ainmniú sin, beidh feidhm ag fo-alt (3) den alt seo maidir leis an díoltóir agus leis an gcleithiúnaí ionann is dá mba chéile an díoltóra an cleithiúnaí.
(5) (a) Féadfaidh an tAire, le toiliú an Aire Airgeadais, rialacháin a dhéanamh chun éifeacht a thabhairt don alt seo agus féadfaidh cibé forálacha forlíontacha nó fo-ghabhálacha is fóirsteanach leis an Aire a bheith in aon rialacháin den sórt sin.
(b) Féadfaidh rialacháin faoin alt seo, go sonrach ach gan dochar do ghinearáltacht mhír (a) den fho-alt seo, foráil a dhéanamh maidir le gach ní nó aon ní acu seo a leanas—
(i) an aicme nó na haicmí daoine a shonrú a mheasfar chun críocha an ailt seo a bheith sean, éagumasaithe nó dall;
(ii) Coimisiún na Talún d'íoc na gcostas agus na gcaiteachas faoina ndeachaigh an díoltóir maidir le díol an leasa le Coimisiún na Talún;
(iii) an praghas ceannaigh íosta nó an chuid íosta de phraghas ceannaigh a bhféadfaidh an díoltóir an rogha a luaitear i bhfo-alt (1) den alt seo a fheidhmiú ina leith;
(iv) an tréimhse ar laistigh di a fheidhmeoidh an díoltóir an rogha sin (más ann);
(v) Coimisiún na Talún do dheonú ceart cónaithe i dteach cónaithe ar an talamh don díoltóir ar feadh saol an díoltóra agus ina dhiaidh sin do chéile nó cleithiúnaí marthanach (más ann) an díoltóra ar feadh saol an chéile nó an chleithiúnaí sin;
(vi) na coinníollacha (más ann dóibh) a bhainfidh leis an gceart cónaithe sin.
(c) Gach rialachán a dhéanfar faoin alt seo leagfar é faoi bhráid gach Tí den Oireachtas a luaithe is féidir tar éis a dhéanta.
(6) San alt seo—
ciallaíonn “cleithiúnaí”, maidir le díoltóir, duine de theaghlach an díoltóra a bheidh, ar an dáta a chríochnófar an díol, go hiomlán nó go páirteach i gcleithiúnas ar thuilleamh an díoltóra;
ciallaíonn “duine den teaghlach” athair, máthair, leasathair, leasmháthair, mac, iníon, ua, banua, leasmhac, leasiníon, deartháir, deirfiúr, deartháir leasghaolmhar, deirfiúr leasghaolmhar, uncail, aintín, nia, neacht, col ceathar, cliamhain nó banchliamhain agus, i gcás bandíoltóra, a leanbh neamhdhlisteanach.
(7) Chun aon ghaol a rianú chun críocha an ailt seo, measfar gur sliocht dlisteanach an uchtóra nó na n-uchtóirí duine ar a ndearnadh uchtáil faoi na hAchtanna Uchtála, 1952 agus 1964.
Blianachtaí ceannaigh, etc., áirithe a íoc go hiomlán.
7.—(1) Aon uair a thiocfaidh íocaíocht lena mbaineann an t-alt seo chun bheith dlite do Choimisiún na Talún, beidh an íocaíocht sin, d'ainneoin aon ní i gCuid III den Acht Talmhan, 1933, nó in alt 42 den Acht Talmhan, 1939, iníoctha go hiomlán ag an duine nó ag na daoine a dhlífidh ó am go ham an íocaíocht sin a dhéanamh.
(2) Beidh feidhm ag an alt seo maidir le cíos, suim bhliantúil agus suim bhreise, blianacht cheannaigh, airgead ceannaigh ina airgead réidh, ús ar airgead ceannaigh agus aon íocaíocht eile is iníoctha le Coimisiún na Talún i leith talún, nó oidhreachtáin neamhchorpraigh, nach bhfuil i limistéar cúng, a dhíolfaidh Coimisiún na Talún ar ceant poiblí nó trí chonradh príobháideach nó a leithroinnfear faoi scéim a bheidh ceadaithe ag Coimisiún na Talún tar éis dáta an Achta seo a rith le duine dá dtagraítear i mír (a) nó i mír (f) d'fho-alt (1) d'alt 31 den Acht Talmhan, 1923; ar choinníoll, áfach, i gcás ina ndéanfar, tar éis dáta an Achta seo a rith, dearbhú, le hordú ón Aire faoi fho-alt (1) d'alt 4 den Acht seo, gur limistéar cúng an limistéar ina bhfuil an talamh sin, nach mbeidh feidhm maidir leis an talamh sin ag an alt seo amhail ar an gcéad lá gála tar éis an t-ordú a dhéanamh agus ón lá sin amach, agus ar choinníoll nach mbeidh feidhm ag an alt seo maidir le híocaíocht i leith talún nó oidhreachtáin neamhchorpraigh a mbeidh Coimisiún na Talún (mar gheall ar mhainneachtain in íoc aon airgid, ar shárú coinníll, nó ar aon mhainneachtain eile) tar éis a chur faoi deara é a dhíol nó tar éis é a thógáil chucu nó seilbh a fháil air, agus a bhfuil an bhlianacht cheannaigh nó an íocaíocht eile ina leith athscrúdaithe faoi Chuid III den Acht Talmhan, 1933.
(3) Aon deimhniú a thabharfar faoi ghnáthshéala Choimisiún na Talún á dheimhniú i dtaobh íocaíochta gurb íocaíochtaí i leith talún, nó oidhreachtáin neamhchorpraigh, a luaitear i bhfo-alt (2) den alt seo, is fianaise prima facie é ar an bhfíoras a dheimhneofar amhlaidh.
(4) Chun aon íocaíocht dá dtagraítear san alt seo a ghnóthú beidh ag Coimisiún na Talún na leigheasanna céanna atá acu chun tráthchodanna neamhíoctha de bhlianachtaí ceannaigh a ghnóthú.
Cumhacht na gCoimisinéirí Tuata chun finnéithe a thoghairm.
8.—(1) Chun deireadh a chur le hamhras, achtaítear leis seo go bhféadfaidh na Coimisinéirí Tuata, chun críocha cibé feidhmeanna dá gcuid ar gá éisteacht ina leith, gach ní nó aon ní acu seo a leanas a dhéanamh—
(a) finnéithe a thoghairm chun teacht os a gcomhair,
(b) finnéithe a thiocfaidh os a gcomhair a cheistiú faoi mhionn (agus údaraítear leis seo d'aon Choimisinéir Tuata daoine a chur faoin mionn),
(c) a cheangal ar aon fhinné den sórt sin aon doiciméad faoina chumhacht nó faoina urláimh a thabhairt ar aird dóibh.
(2) Aon fhinné a thiocfaidh os comhair na gCoimisinéirí Tuata ag éisteacht den sórt sin beidh sé i dteideal na ndíolúintí agus na bpribhléidí céanna agus a bheadh dá mba fhinné os comhair na hArd-Chúirte é.
(3) Beidh toghairm arna síniú ag Coimisinéir Tuata amháin ar a laghad.
(4) Más rud é—
(a) ar aon duine a thoghairm go cuí mar fhinné os comhair na gCoimisinéirí Tuata ag éisteacht den sórt sin nach dtiocfaidh an duine sin i láthair, nó
(b) ar aon duine a bheith i láthair mar fhinné ag éisteacht den sórt sin go ndiúltóidh sé mionn a ghlacadh a cheanglóidh na Coimisinéirí Tuata go dlíthiúil air a ghlacadh, nó aon doiciméid faoina chumhacht nó faoina urláimh a thabhairt ar aird a cheanglóidh na Coimisinéirí Tuata go dlíthiúil air a thabhairt ar aird, nó aon cheist a fhreagairt a bhféadfaidh Coimisinéir Tuata a cheangal air go dlíthiúil freagra a thabhairt uirthi, nó
(c) go ndéanfaidh aon duine rud ar bith eile a bheadh, dá mba chúirt dlí na Coimisinéirí Tuata le cumhacht chun duine a chimiú mar gheall ar dhíspeagadh cúirte, ina dhíspeagadh ar an gcúirt sin,
féadfaidh na Coimisinéirí Tuata cion an duine sin a dheimhniú don Ard-Chúirt faoi ghnáthshéala Choimisiún na Talún agus féadfaidh an Ard-Chúirt, tar éis cibé fiosrúchán is cuí léi a dhéanamh, an duine sin a phionósú nó bearta a dhéanamh chun é a phionósú ionann is dá mbeadh sé ciontach i ndíspeagadh na hArd-Chúirte.
Cumhacht údaráis áitiúil chun ranníoc a dhéanamh i leith costas oibreacha áirithe ag Coimisiún na Talún.
9.—(1) Chun deireadh a chur le hamhras, dearbhaítear leis seo go bhfuil, agus go raibh riamh, cumhacht ag údarás áitiúil íocaíocht a dhéanamh le Coimisiún na Talún mar ranníoc i leith costas oibreacha a rinne Coimisiún na Talún nó a bheartaigh siad a dhéanamh agus, ar na hoibreacha a bheith críochnaithe, a bhfuair, nó ar dóigh go bhfaighidh, an t-údarás áitiúil tairbhe astu.
(2) San alt seo ciallaíonn “údarás áitiúil” comhairle contae, bardas contae-bhuirge nó buirge eile, comhairle ceantair uirbigh, nó aon chomhlacht reachtúil eile a mbeadh baint leis ag na hoibreacha a luaitear i bhfo-alt (1) den alt seo.
An tAire Tailte agus Coimisiún na Talún a shaoradh ó oibleagáidí agus dliteanais áirithe.
1869, c. 42.
1881, c. 71.
10.—(1) Chun deireadh a chur le hamhras, agus faoi réir fho-alt (2) den alt seo, dearbhaítear leis seo nach n-oibreoidh, agus nach measfar gur oibrigh riamh, aon ní sna hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh nó in aon achtachán eile nó in aon riail dlí nó in aon chonradh intuigthe, ná aon ní a rinneadh faoin gcéanna, chun aon oibleagáid nó dliteanas acu seo a leanas a chur ar an Aire Tailte nó ar Choimisiún na Talún—
(a) aon oibleagáid chun aon oibreacha a ghlanadh, a chothabháil, a dheisiú nó a athchóiriú, nó
(b) aon dliteanas i leith gnímh nó neamhghnímh ag oifigeach, seirbhíseach nó gníomhaire don Aire nó do Choimisiún na Talún (nach gníomh nó neamhghníomh faillíoch) maidir le haon oibreacha a dhéanamh, a ghlanadh, a chothabháil, a dheisiú nó a athchóiriú, ar gníomh nó neamhghníomh é ba thort ar aon talamh nó maidir le haon talamh a ceannaíodh nó ar comhaontaíodh é a cheannach faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh nó ar déileáladh leis faoin Irish Church Act, 1869, nó faoin Irish Church Act Amendment Act, 1881, nó faoi na hAchtanna um Bord na gCeantar Cúng (Éire), nó ar aon talamh nó maidir le haon talamh atá tadhlach leis an talamh céadluaite sin.
(2) I gcás talamh a bheith á áitiú go haonarach agus go heisiatach ag Coimisiún na Talún i gcaitheamh aon tréimhse, ní oibreoidh fo-alt (1) den alt seo chun Coimisiún na Talún a fhuascailt i gcaitheamh na tréimhse sin—
(a) ó aon oibleagáid (cibé mar a forchuireadh í nó a d'éirigh sí) chun aon oibreacha ar an talamh sin a ghlanadh, a chothabháil nó a athchóiriú, nó
(b) ó aon dliteanas i leith aon ghnímh a rinneadh, nó aon neamhghnímh a tharla, le linn aon oibreacha a bheith á ndéanamh, á nglanadh, á gcothabháil, á ndeisiú nó a n-athchóiriú, ar gníomh nó neamhghníomh é ba thort ar an talamh sin nó maidir leis an talamh sin nó ar aon talamh nó maidir le haon talamh atá tadhlach leis an talamh céadluaite sin.
(3) Más rud é go mbeidh Coiimsiún na Talún tar éis aon oibreacha a dhéanamh, a ghlanadh, a chothabháil, a dheisiú nó a athchóiriú aon tráth nó tráthanna, ní oibreoidh sé sin, ná ní mheasfar gur oibrigh sé riamh, ann féin, chun dliteanas a chur ar Choimisiún na Talún na hoibreacha sin a ghlanadh, a chothabháil, a dheisiú nó a athchóiriú.
Coimisiún na Talún a dhíolmhú ó dhliteanas i leith rátaí áirithe.
11.—(1) Más rud é, maidir le haon oidhreachtán nach oidhreachtán arb é atá ann talamh gan foirgneamh nó foirgnimh air—
(a) go ngearrfar ar Choimisiún na Talún an ráta contae nó an ráta bardasach in aghaidh na bliana airgeadais áitiúil ina rithfear an tAcht seo nó in aghaidh aon bhliain airgeadais áitiúil ina dhiaidh sin, agus
(b) go ndeimhneoidh Coimisiún na Talún faoina ngnáthshéala go raibh an foirgneamh nó na foirgnimh atá ar áireamh san oidhreachtán gan áitiú ar dháta an ráta sin a ghearradh,
ní bheidh na rátaí iomchuí iníoctha ag Coimisiún na Talún ná ag áititheoir a áiteoidh an t-oidhreachtán ina dhiaidh sin.
(2) Más rud é, tar éis dáta an ráta contae nó an ráta bhardasaigh a ghearradh, go mbeidh an foirgneamh nó na foirgnimh a bheidh ar áireamh in oidhreachtán den sórt sin ar áitiú ag áititheoir seachas Coimisiún na Talún i gcaitheamh aon tréimhse sa bhliain airgeadais áitiúil ina rithfear an tAcht seo nó in aon bhliain airgeadais áitiúil ina dhiaidh sin, beidh cuid de na rátaí iomcuí don bhliain airgeadais áitiúil sin a mbeidh idir í agus iomlán na rátaí iomchuí sin an cothrom céanna a bheidh idir an tréimhse sin agus bliain iníoctha ag an áititheoir sin agus beidh sí inghnóthaithe ionann is dá mba rud é go ndearnadh an t-áititheoir sin a rátú i gcéaduair i leith an fhoirgnimh nó na bhfoirgneamh sin, agus mura n-íocfaidh sé í beidh sí iníoctha ag aon áititheoir a áiteoidh an foirgneamh nó na foirgnimh ina dhiaidh sin agus beidh sí inghnóthaithe ón áititheoir sin.
(3) San alt seo ciallaíonn “rátaí iomchuí” na rátaí (cibé acu i leith ráta contae nó ráta bardasaigh) is iníoctha maidir le haon fhoirgneamh nó foirgnimh atá ar áireamh in oidhreachtán a mbeidh Coimisiún na Talún tar éis a dheimhniú ina leith, de bhun fho-alt (1) den alt seo, go raibh an foirgneamh nó na foirgnimh neamháitithe ar dháta an ráta contae nó an ráta bhardasaigh a ghearradh i leith an oidhreachtáin.
Toirmeasc ar ghabháltais áirithe a ligean, a fholigean nó a fhoroinnt gan toiliú ó Choimisiún na Talún.
12.—(1) Ní dhéanfar gabháltas talmhaíochta a ligean, a fholigean ná a fhoroinnt gan toiliú i scríbhinn ó Choimisiún na Talún, agus féadfaidh an toiliú sin a bheith ginearálta nó sonrach agus féadfaidh sé a bheith faoi réir cibé coinníollacha (más ann) is cuí le Coimisiún na Talún.
(2) Ní fheidhmeofar cumhacht Choimisiún na Talún chun a dtoiliú a dhiúltú faoin alt seo ach amháin d'fhonn cosc a chur le gabháltais a bhunú nó a choinneáil ar bun nach gabháltais eacnamaíocha iad i dtuairim Choimisiún na Talún.
(3) Aon ligean, foligean nó foroinnt a dtabharfar iarracht nó a n-airbheartófar é a dhéanamh contrártha don alt seo, beidh sé ar neamhní amhail in aghaidh gach uile dhuine; ar choinníoll, áfach, in aon chás ina dtabharfar toiliú Choimisiún na Talún faoin Acht seo tar éis an ligin, an fholigin nó na foroinnte ar tugadh iarracht nó ar airbheartaíodh é a dhéanamh, go n-oibreoidh an toiliú sin, má ordaíonn Coimisiún na Talún amhlaidh, chun bailíocht a thabhairt le héifeacht siarghabhálach don ligean, don fholigean nó don fhoroinnt sin ar tugadh iarracht nó ar airbheartaíodh é a dhéanamh.
(4) Ní bhainfidh fo-alt (1) den alt seo le haon ghabháltas nach bhfuil faoi réir blianachta ceannaigh nó íocaíochta eile is iníoctha le Coimisiún na Talún, agus
(a) a bhfuil iomlán an ghabháltais sin laistigh de theorainn aon chontae-bhuirge, buirge, ceantair uirbigh nó baile, nó
(b) a ndeimhneoidh Coimisiún na Talún faoina ngnáthshéala gurb é a dtuairim go bhfuil an gabháltas sin ag teastáil le haghaidh forbairt uirbeach mar gheall ar a chóngaracht do chontae-bhuirg, do bhuirg, do cheantar uirbeach nó do bhaile.
(5) An tagairt atá i bhfo-alt (2) d'alt (3) den Acht Talmhan, 1927, do thoiliú Choimisiún na Talún le foroinnt faoin alt sin, forléireofar í mar thagairt do thoiliú Choimisiún na Talún faoin Acht seo.
(6) I gcás ina dtarlódh murach an t-alt seo go bhfaighfí teideal de dhroim seilbhe chun cuid nó codanna de ghabháltas, is gá toiliú Choimisiún na Talún faoin alt seo chun an teideal sin a fháil; ar choinníoll nach gá an toiliú sin i gcás ar bith ina bhfuarthas nó ina bhfaighfear an teideal sin (cibé acu roimh dháta an Achta seo a rith nó dá éis sin é) de dhroim seilbhe nó trí sheilbh arbh ann di go hiomlán roimh dháta an Achta seo a rith.
(7) Gach coinníoll i gconradh chun talamh a dhíol trína gcoisctear ar an gceannaitheoir foréilimh a dhéanamh maidir le ligean, foligean nó foroinnt gabháltais talmhaíochta, beidh sé ar neamhní.
(8) San alt seo—
ciallaíonn “talmhaíochta”, maidir le gabháltas, gabháltas talmhaíochta nó féaraigh go substaintiúil, nó gabháltas talmhaíochta agus féaraigh go substaintiúil, de réir cineáil;
ciallaíonn “gabháltas,” maidir le tionónta nó dílseánach áirithe, an talamh go léir a bheidh ar teachtadh aige, ar dháta, nó tar éis dáta, an Achta seo a rith, faoi fhorléasadh singil nó a bhfuair sé teideal chuige de dhroim seilbhe, cibé acu feo simplí, deontas feofheirme, léasacht nó ó bhliain go bliain é (cibé acu faoi choinníollacha reachtúla é nó nach ea), agus cibé acu a bheidh sé ar teachtadh i gcomhpháirt nó i gcoiteannas nó ina aonar nó ar leithleacht, agus cibé acu a ceannaíodh nó nár ceannaíodh é faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh nó a bheidh nó nach mbeidh sé cláraithe, nó a meastar nó nach meastar é a bheith cláraithe, faoi na hAchtanna um Chlárú Teidil, 1891 agus 1942, nó faoin Acht um Chlárú Teidil, 1964; ar choinníoll, i gcás ina mbeidh dhá ghabháltas nó níos mó den sórt sin arna gcomhdhlúthú, go measfar gurb aon ghabháltas amháin iad agus, i gcás dhá mhaoin chláraithe nó níos mó a bheith cláraithe san úinéireacht chéanna agus iad gan comhdhlúthú ag Coimisiún na Talún, go measfar gur gabháltais ar leithligh iad chun críocha an ailt seo;
folaíonn “foroinnt” éileamh ar bith ar theideal chun cuid nó codanna de ghabháltas, cibé acu trí dhiúscairt chun duine amháin nó níos mó é.
Toirmeasc ar thailte áirithe a dhíol, a aistriú, a ligean nó a fholigean gan toiliú ó Choimisiún na Talún.
13.—(1) I gcás ina bhfoilseofar liosta sealadach faoi fho-alt (2) d'alt 40 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, tar éis dáta an Achta seo a rith, ní dhéanfar, go dtí go bhfoirceannfar imeachtaí faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh chun na tailte a fháil, na tailte (ná aon chuid díobh) a luafar sa liosta sealadach a dhíol, a aistriú, a ligean, a fholigean ná a fhoroinnt gan toiliú i scríbhinn ó Choimisiún na Talún.
(2) I gcás ina seirbheálfar fógra faoi fho-alt (6) (arna leasú le halt 29 den Acht seo) d'alt 40 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, tar éis dáta an Achta seo a rith, ní dhéanfar, sa tréimhse trí mhí dar tosach dáta an fhógra a sheirbheáil, na tailte (ná aon chuid díobh) a luafar san fhógra a dhíol, a aistriú, a ligean, a fholigean ná a fhoroinnt gan toiliú i scríbhinn ó Choimisiún na Talún; ar choinníoll, áfach, go bhféadfaidh na Coimisinéirí Tuata, le hordú (a bheidh ina ábhar eiscthe chun críocha alt 12 den Acht Talún, 1950), an tréimhse sin a fhadú trí mhí eile agus go ndéanfaidh Coimisiún na Talún freisin fógra i dtaobh an ordaithe sin a sheirbheáil ar an modh forordaithe.
(3) I gcás ina mbeidh fógra tugtha faoi mhír (a) d'fho-alt (2) d'alt 39 den Acht Talmhan, 1939, á rá go bhfuil Coimisiún na Talún á bheartú cead a iarraidh chun gabháltas a atógáil, ní dhéanfar, go dtí go bhfoirceannfar imeachtaí faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh chun an gabháltas a atógáil, an gabháltas a luafar san fhógra a dhíol, a aistriú, a ligean, a fholigean ná a fhoroinnt, ina iomláine ná i bpáirt, gan toiliú i scríbhinn ó Choimisiún na Talún.
(4) Aon díol, aistriú, ligean, foligean nó foroinnt a dtabharfar iarracht nó a n-airbheartófar é a dhéanamh contrártha don alt seo, beidh sé ar neamhní amhail in aghaidh gach uile dhuine; ar choinníoll, áfach, in aon chás ina dtabharfar toiliú Choimisiún na Talún faoin Acht seo tar éis an díola, an aistrithe, an ligin, an fholigin nó na foroinnte, ar tugadh iarracht nó ar airbheartaíodh é a dhéanamh, go n-oibreoidh an toiliú sin, má ordaíonn Coimisiún na Talún amhlaidh, chun bailíocht a thabhairt le héifeacht siarghabhálach don díol, don aistriú, don ligean, don fholigean nó don fhoroinnt sin ar tugadh iarracht nó ar airbheartaíodh é a dhéanamh.
(5) Aon uair a fhoilseofar nó a sheirbheálfar liosta sealadach nó fógra dá dtagraítear san alt seo agus a bhainfidh le talamh cláraithe, tabharfaidh Coimisiún na Talún cóip den liosta nó den fhógra do Chláraitheoir na dTeideal agus déanfaidh seisean, ar an gcóip sin a fháil dó, cibé taifid is dóigh leis is gá a chur sa chlár iomchuí agus, a luaithe is féidir tar éis deireadh na tréimhse iomchuí nó tar éis dó fógra a fháil ó Choimisiún na Talún gur foirceannadh na himeachtaí dá dtagraítear san alt seo, cealóidh sé na taifid sin.
Ainmnithigh Choimisiún na Talún a cheapadh.
14.—(1) Más rud é, in aon imeachtaí faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh, go measfaidh Coimisiún na Talún gur gá nó gur fóirsteanach é sin a dhéanamh chun a gcumhachtaí faoi na hAchtanna sin a fheidhmiú, féadfaidh siad, le hordú, tar éis fo-alt (2) den alt seo a chomhlíonadh, aon duine nó daoine a bhfeicfear dóibh cíosanna agus brabúis a bheith á bhfáil aige nó acu, nó urlámhas agus bainistíocht a bheith aige nó acu, i gcás aon talún (dá ngairtear an talamh san alt seo) nó, mura bhfuil aon duine nó daoine den sórt sin ann nó má tá an duine sin nó aon duine ar leith de na daoine sin faoi éagumas, féadfaidh siad duine éigin eile, a cheapadh ina ainmnitheach, chun críocha na n-imeachtaí sin agus sin an méid, do na daoine uile a bhfuil leas acu sa talamh, agus féadfaidh siad, nuair is gá sin, an talamh, nó (i gcás aon mhalartú talún faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh) talamh eile, a dhílsiú don duine sin.
(2) Sula ndéanfar ordú faoi fho-alt (1) den alt seo, tabharfaidh Coimisiún na Talún don duine a bheartófar a cheapadh ina ainmnitheach fógra san fhoirm fhorordaithe go bhfuil ar intinn acu an t-ordú a dhéanamh.
(3) D'ainneoin aon achtacháin nó riail dlí, feidhmeoidh ainmnitheach a cheapfar faoin alt seo go hiomlán agus go héifeachtúil ar son na ndaoine go léir a mbeidh leas acu sa talamh chun críocha na n-imeachtaí ar maidir leo a rinneadh an ceapachán (lena n-áirítear seirbheáil doiciméad, ach dáileadh airgid cheannaigh a fhágáil as áireamh), ach ní chun aon chríche eile ná ar aon dóigh eile, agus féadfaidh sé gach gníomh a dhéanamh is gá chun na himeachtaí sin a thabhairt chun críche, lena n-áirítear an talamh a aistriú, cibé acu is talamh chláraithe é nó nach ea.
(4) Féadfaidh Coimisiún na Talún le hordú—
(a) ceapachán faoi fho-alt (1) den alt seo a fhoirceannadh, agus
(b) duine a cheapadh seachas an duine ar foirceannadh a cheapachán amhlaidh chun bheith ina ainmnitheach sna imeachtaí céanna, agus nuair is gá é an talamh a dhílsiú don duine eile sin.
(5) Aon uair a dhéanfar ordú faoin alt seo a bhainfidh le talamh chláraithe, tabharfaidh Coimisiún na Talún cóip den ordú do Chláraithaoir na dTeideal agus déanfaidh seisean, ar an gcóip den ordú a fháil dó, cibé athruithe is dóigh leis is gá sa chlár iomchuí.
(6) I gcás ina ndílseoidh Coimisiún na Talún talamh d'ainmnitheach faoin alt seo, beidh an leas a dhílseofar amhlaidh ina ghreamacht ar leas na ndaoine go léir a mbeidh an t-ainmnitheach ag feidhmiú ar a son.
(7) Duine a cheapfar chun bheith ina ainmnitheach faoin alt seo, ní bheidh sé, de bhíthin an cheapacháin sin amháin, ina iontaobhaí chun críocha Reacht na dTréimhsí, 1957.
(8) Féadfar an teideal Ainmnitheach Choimisiún na Talún a thabhairt ar dhuine a cheapfar ina ainmnitheach faoin alt seo agus is leor de thuairisc air é sin.
(9) Ní dhéanfar aon cheapachán faoi alt 54 den Acht Talmhan, 1939, tar éis an fhoirm dá dtagraítear i bhfo-alt (2) den alt seo a bheith forordaithe.
Feidhmiú cumhachtaí agus feidhmeanna áirithe ag Scrúdaitheoirí de chuid Choimisiún na Talún a bheidh údaraithe chuige sin.
15.—(1) D'ainneoin aon fhorála eile de na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh, féadfaidh cibé Scrúdaitheoirí de chuid Choimisiún na Talún a údaróidh an tAire chun na críche sin, le toiliú an Choimisinéara Breithiúnais, cumhachtaí agus feidhmeanna an Choimisinéara Breithiúnais agus Choimisiún na Talún maidir le dáileadh airgid cheannaigh (lena n-áirítear deimhniú faoi fho-alt (2) d'alt 5 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, ar shuimeanna as an gCiste Costas a bunaíodh faoin alt sin) a fheidhmiú.
(2) Aon duine a bheidh éagóirithe trí chinneadh ag Scrúdaitheoir a bheidh údaraithe faoi fho-alt (1) den alt seo, is cinneadh a rinne an Scrúdaitheoir sin agus é ag feidhmiú na gcumhachtaí agus na bhfeidhmeanna a luaitear san fho-alt sin, féadfaidh sé, ar an modh forordaithe agus laistigh den tréimhse fhorordaithe, achomharc a dhéanamh i gcoinne an chinneadh sin chun an Choimisinéara Breithiúnais agus, faoi réir fho-alt (3) den alt seo, is cinneadh críochnaitheach neamh-inachomhairc a chinneadh-sean ar an achomharc sin.
(3) Féadfar achomharc i gcoinne chinneadh an Choimisinéara Breithiúnais faoi fho-alt (2) den alt seo a dhéanamh chun na Cúirte Uachtaraí ar cheist shonraithe dlí.
An fhréamh theidil is inghlactha.
16.—(1) Féadfaidh an Coimisinéir Breithiúnais, dá rogha féin, d'ainneoin forálacha na nAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh nó aon achtacháin uile, treoracha ginearálta a eisiúint chun Scrúdaitheora a bheidh údaraithe chun críche fho-alt (1) d'alt 15 den Acht seo, glacadh mar thréimhse thosaithe teidil, a gceanglófar ar an úinéir, an tionónta nó an t-éilitheoir eile é a rianú, le tréimhse nach lú ná—
(a) dhá bhliain déag dar tosach dáta tíolactha, aistrithe nó sannta na talún nó an ghabháltais ar chomaoin luachmhar, agus dar críoch an dáta a dhílsigh an talamh, nó leas an tionónta sa talamh, do Choimisiún na Talún, nó
(b) tríocha bliain dar críoch an dáta a dhílsigh an talamh, nó leas an tionónta sa talamh, do Choimisiún na Talún.
cibé tréimhse acu sin is giorra.
(2) I gcás éileamh i gcoinne an airgid cheannaigh a bheith gan sásamh ar dháileadh a dhéanamh mar gheall ar fheidhm a bhaint as an rogha a thugtar le fo-alt (1) den alt seo, beidh feidhm ag na forálacha d'alt 34 den Acht Talmhan, 1931, a bhaineann le cúiteamh.
Slánaíocht do Scrúdaitheoir.
17.—Ní bheidh Scrúdaitheoir faoi dhliteanas ó thaobh aon chaingne, agra nó imeachta i gcás nó i leith aon ghnímh nó ní a rinne sé nó a d'fhág sé gan déanamh, bona fide, de bhun alt 15 nó 16 den Acht seo.
Cearta seilge áirithe a mhúchadh.
18.—Más rud é—
(a) go ndearnadh tailte a chlárú faoi na hAchtanna um Chlárú Teidil, 1891 agus 1942, nó faoin Acht um Chlárú Teidil, 1964,
(b) ar na tailte sin a chlárú amhlaidh go ndearnadh na cearta seilge, seachas na cearta iascaireachta ar, nó thar, na tailte sin, a fhorcoimeád do dhuine seachas an t-úinéir cláraithe, agus
(c) nach ndearnadh na cearta sin a forcoimeádadh amhlaidh a fheidhmiú sa tréimhse dhá bhliain déag dar críoch dáta an Achta seo a rith nó in aon tréimhse dhá bhliain déag dar críoch dáta tar éis dáta an Achta seo a rith,
beidh, agus dearbhaítear leis seo go mbeidh, deireadh leis na cearta a forcoimeádadh amhlaidh ar dhul in éag don tréimhse sin agus, ar iarratas ó aon duine leasmhar, cuirfidh Cláraitheoir na dTeideal faoi deara, mura mbeidh fianaise shásúil ar fheidhmiú na gcearta sin sa tréimhse sin á cur ar fáil, go gcealófar taifead na gceart sin sa chlár iomchuí.
Oidhreachtáin neamhchorpracha.
19.—(1) Chun deireadh a chur le hamhras, dearbhaítear leis seo—
(a) go bhfolóidh an tagairt i bhfo-alt (1) d'alt 31 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, do phaistí talún, agus go measfar gur fholaigh sí riamh, oidhreachtáin neamhchorpracha, agus
(b) go bhfolóidh na tagairtí i bhfo-alt (3) den alt sin (arna leasú le fo-alt (2) den alt seo) do phaiste talún, nó d'aon phaiste talún, agus go measfar gur fholaigh siad riamh, oidhreachtán neamhchorprach.
(2) Leasaítear leis seo fo-alt (3) d'alt 31 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, trí “agus folóidh ‘holding’ sna hAchtanna sin, agus measfar gur fholaigh sé riamh, aon dáileacht talún a díoladh nó ar comhaontaíodh í a dhíol faoi na hAchtanna sin” a chur in ionad “agus folóidh an focal ‘holding’ sna bAchtanna san paiste talmhan ’nar dineadh do réir an ailt seo roimh-íoc chun go gceannófí é.”
Leathnú ar chumhachtaí Choimisiún na Talún chun cearta slí a chur ar fáil.
20.—(1) I dteannta na n-ábhar a luaitear in alt 43 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, agus in alt 39 (arna leasú le halt 33 den Acht seo) den Acht Talmhan, 1931, áireofar ar chumhachtaí Choimisiún na Talún chun airgead a chaitheamh, le haghaidh tairbhe nó feabhsú aon tailte, an chumhacht chun slite agus cearta slí a thabhairt do Choimisiún na Talún, agus dá gceadúnaithe, agus chun sonrú agus leathnú nó feabhsú a dhéanamh ar shlite agus cearta slí, thar aon talamh (lena n-áirítear aon fhaibhriú, trí ghlárú nó trá, cibé acu draenáil ba chúis leis nó nach ea), d'fhonn bealach a fhurasú go dtí an fharraige agus ón bhfarraige, nó go dtí loch nó abhainn agus ó loch nó abhainn, atá tadhlach le tailte a díoladh nó ar comhaontaíodh iad a dhíol faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh, cibé acu a thugtar nó nach dtugtar na cearta slí sin le hiad a bheith comhghabhálach le haon talamh, agus cibé acu atá nó nach bhfuil aon chríoch-phointe do na slite agus na cearta slí sin ar thailte a díoladh nó ar comhaontaíodh iad a dhíol faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh.
(2) Féadfar na cumhachtaí a thugtar do Choimisiún na Talún le halt 43 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, agus le halt 39 (arna leasú le halt 33 den Acht seo) den Acht Talmhan, 1931, agus a leathnaítear leis an alt seo, a fheidhmiú chun na cearta seo a leanas a thabhairt agus a shonrú agus a leathnú—
(a) cearta chun feithiclí a locadh nó báid a tharraingt isteach ón uisce, agus
(b) cearta chun báid a fheistiú nó a fhágáil ar ancaire.
(3) Ní dhéanfar cumhachtaí Choimisiún na Talún faoin alt seo a fheidhmiú go héigeantach maidir le haon cheart thar talamh is gaire ná caoga slat do theach cónaithe áitithe agus ar ceart é a bhí ar marthain i dtosach na tréimhse sé mhí dar críoch an dáta a sheirbheálfaidh Coimisiún na Talún an fógra i leith an chirt sin.
Oibriú orduithe dílseacháin áirithe.
21.—(1) Má dhéantar talamh a dhílsiú do cheannaitheoir le hordú dílseacháin, fiat dílseacháin nó ionstraim eile agus go mbeidh san ordú nó san ionstraim foráil chun an talamh a chomhdhlúthú le talamh a bheidh cláraithe, nó a mheastar a bheith cláraithe, faoi na hAchtanna um Chlárú Teidil, 1891 agus 1942, (dá ngairtear an talamh cláraithe san alt seo), oibreoidh an t-ordú nó an ionstraim chun an talamh a dhílsiú don cheannaitheoir sa cháil chéanna ina bhfuil, agus faoi réir na n-iontaobhas céanna (más ann) faoina bhfuil, an talamh chláraithe á theachtadh aige.
(2) Más rud é—
(a) go mbeidh talamh arna dhílsiú, cibé acu roimh dháta an Achta seo a rith nó dá éis sin é, do cheannaitheoir le hordú dílseacháin faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh, agus
(b) go mbeidh sé ráite san ordú dílseacháin go bhfuil an talamh á thabhairt mar mhalairt ar thalamh chláraithe,
beidh feidhm ag forálacha alt 46 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, amhail is dá mba de bhun chomhaontú faoin alt sin a tugadh éifeacht don mhalartú agus amhail is dá gcuirfí tagairtí do dháta an ordaithe dílseacháin in ionad na dtagairtí atá i bhfo-alt (3) den alt sin do dháta an chláraithe.
Éifeacht bháis ar ordú dílseacháin.
22.—Déantar leis seo an t-alt seo a leanas a chur in ionad alt 63 den Acht Talmhan, 1923:
“63.—(1) Ní bheidh ordú dílseacháin ar neamhní mar gheall ar an duine a n-airbheartófar na tailte a áirítear san ordú a dhílsiú dó d'fháil bháis roimh an ordú dílseacháin sin a fhorghníomhú, ach beidh d'éifeacht aige chun go ndílseoidh sé, agus measfar gur dhílsigh sé riamh, na tailte sin d'ionadaí pearsanta an duine sin chun cibé úsáidí agus ar cibé iontaobhais a mbeadh na tailte sin faoina dteorainn dá mba rud é go raibh siad dílsithe don duine sin díreach roimh a bhás.
(2) I gcás ina n-airbheartóidh ordú dílseacháin tailte a dhílsiú do dhuine mar úinéir teoranta, ní bheidh an t-ordú ar neamhní de bhíthin amháin go bhfuair an duine bás roimh é a fhorghníomhú ach beidh éifeacht aige chun go ndílseoidh sé, agus measfar gur dhílsigh sé riamh, na tailte sin do na páirtithe is neasa teideal dóibh chun cibé úsáidí agus ar cibé iontaobhais a mbeadh na tailte sin faoina dteorainn dá mba rud é go raibh siad dílsithe don duine sin díreach roimh a bhás.
(3) I gcás ina n-airbheartóidh ordú dílseacháin tailte a dhílsiú i ndaoine mar nasc thionóntaí, ní bheidh sé ar neamhní de bhíthin amháin go bhfuair duine nó daoine acu sin bás roimh é a fhorghníomhú, ach beidh éifeacht aige chun go ndílseoidh sé, agus measfar gur dhílsigh sé riamh, na tailte sin don mharthanóir nó do na marthanóirí chun cibé úsáidí agus ar cibé iontaobhais a mbeadh na tailte sin faoina dteorainn dá mba rud é go raibh siad dílsithe do na daoine sin go léir díreach roimh bhás an duine nó na ndaoine sin, cibé acu é.
(4) San alt seo ciallaíonn ‘ordú dílseacháin’ ordú dílseacháin faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh agus folaíonn sé fiat dílseacháin nó ionstraim eile a airbheartaíonn talamh a dhílsiú do cheannaitheoir.”.
Cumhacht chun orduithe dílseacháin áirithe a dhéanamh.
23.—Chun deireadh a chur le hamhras, dearbhaítear leis seo go bhfuil cumhacht ag Coimisiún na Talún chun ordú dílseacháin a dhéanamh faoi alt 28 den Acht Talmhan, 1931, maidir le gabháltas ar forghníomhaíodh comhaontú ceannaigh ina leith.
Easnaimh mar gheall ar oibriú Reacht na dTréimhsí, 1957.
1891, c. 48.
24.—(1) Ní bheidh easnamh i gciste na n-iasachtaí áitiúla, i gciste na mblianachtaí ceannaigh nó i gciste na mbannaí talún, mar gheall ar oibriú alt 24 de Reacht na dTréimhsí, 1957, ina mhuirear ar an gCiste Ráthaíochta a bunaíodh faoi alt 5 den Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891.
(2) Déanfar easnamh in aon chuntas nó ciste seachas ciste na mblianachtaí ceannaigh, mar gheall ar oibriú alt 24 de Reacht na dTréimhsí, 1957, a shlánú don chiste iomchuí as airgead a sholáthróidh an tOireachtas cibé tráthanna agus ar cibé dóigh a ordóidh an tAire Airgeadais.
Gabháltais a chomhdhlúthú.
25.—(1) Déantar leis seo cumhachtaí Choimisiún na Talún faoi alt 66 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, chun gabháltais áirithe a chomhdhlúthú, a leathnú chun go bhfolóidh siad cumhacht chun aon dá ghabháltas nó níos mó a chomhdhlúthú le hordú, cibé acu a bheidh nó nach mbeidh siad faoi réir blianachta ceannaigh, aon uair is dóigh le Coimisiún na Talún go bhfuil an comhdhlúthú sin riachtanach nó inmhianaithe chun críocha na nAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh agus a thoileoidh tionónta nó dílseánach na ngabháltas leis an gcomhdhlúthú sin.
(2) Ar ghabháltas comhdhlúite a dhéanamh faoi alt 66 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, nó faoin alt sin arna leathnú leis an alt seo, aistreofar chun an ghabháltais a dhéanfar amhlaidh na heastáit, na leasanna, na cearta, na hualaí, na muirir, na dliteanais agus na cothromais go léir a bheidh, ar dháta an ordaithe ó Choimisiún na Talún ag déanamh an ghabháltais sin, ag baint nó ag gabháil le gach gabháltas a chomhdhlúthófar amhlaidh, agus aon bhlianacht cheannaigh, blianacht mhíntírithe nó íocaíocht eile a aistreofar amhlaidh measfar go raibh sí, agus beidh sí, de mhuirear ar an ngabháltas comhdhlúite agus inghnóthaithe as ar an modh céanna agus de réir na tosaíochta céanna a raibh an bhlianacht nó an íocaíocht sin de mhuirear ar chuid den ghabháltas comhdhlúite agus inghnóthaithe aisti roimhe sin.
(3) Ar iarratas ó Choimisiún na Talún, cláróidh Cláraitheoir na dTeideal, faoi na hAchtanna um Chlárú Teidil, 1891 agus 1942, úinéireacht na talún go léir a chomhdhlúthófar faoin alt seo agus déanfaidh sé cibé athruithe is dóigh leis is gá sa chlár iomchuí.
Airgead ceannaigh a íoc nó airleacan a thabhairt trí bhannaí talún.
26.—D'ainneoin alt 4 d'Acht na mBannaí Talmhan, 1934, nó aon ordú a rinneadh faoin Acht sin, féadfar airgead ceannaigh is gá de réir an Achta sin a íoc, nó airleacan is gá dá réir a thabhairt, trí bhannaí talún a eisiúint faoin Acht sin, a íoc nó a thabhairt ionann is dá mba rud é gur comhaontaíodh ar mhéid an airgid cheannaigh nó an airleacain, nó gur socraíodh, nó go meastar gur socraíodh, an céanna an lá a dhílsítear an talamh nó leas an tionónta i ngabháltas atógtha do Choimisiún na Talún.
Gan cumhachtaí a thugtar le halt 40 (6) den Acht Talmhan, 1923, a bheith ina n-ábhair eiscthe.
27.—Chun deireadh a chur le hamhras, dearbhaítear leis seo nach ábhar eiscthe chun críocha alt 12 den Acht Talún, 1950, cinneadh na talún a bheidh le hiniúchadh faoi fho-alt (6) d'alt 40 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, arna leasú leis an Acht seo; ar choinníoll nach n-údaróidh an tAire d'oifigeach (de bhun fho-alt (2) d'alt 12 den Acht Talún, 1950) an cinneadh sin a dhéanamh murab oifigeach do Choimisiún na Talún an t-oifigeach agus nach ísle céim é ná Cigire Sinsearach.
Leasú ar alt 15 den Acht Talmhan, 1923.
1923, Uimh.42
28.—(1) A luaithe is féidir tar éis an tAcht seo a rith, déanfar na hinfheistíochtaí agus an t-ús dá dtagraítear i bhfo-alt
(3) d'alt 15 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, nó cibé infheistíochtaí nó airgead eile a bheidh an uair sin in ionannas leis an gcéanna, a aistriú chun cibé oifigeach do Choláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath, a bheidh ainmnithe chun na críche ag comhlacht ceannais an Choláiste sin.
(2) Leasaítear leis seo alt 15 den Acht Talmhan, 1923—
(a) trí “le toil agus cead an Aire Airgid” a scriosadh i bhfo-alt (5), agus
(b) trí “le toil an Aire Airgid”, agus “agus a cheadóidh an tAire Airgid” a scriosadh i bhfo-alt (6).
Leasú ar alt 40 den Acht Talmhan, 1923.
29.—Leasaítear leis seo alt 40 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, trí “arna shéalú le gnáthshéala Choimisiún na Talún agus arna sheirbheáil ar an modh forordaithe ar” a chur in ionad “do chur tríd an bpost chun” i bhfo-alt (6).
Leasú ar alt 46 den Acht Talmhan, 1923.
30.—Déantar leis seo alt 46 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, a leasú trí na fo-ailt seo a leanas a chur isteach i ndiaidh fho-alt (5):
“(5A) Chun críocha na gcláruithe sin, féadfaidh Cláraitheoir na dTeideal a ordú d'aon duine ag a bhfuil an deimhniú talún (dá ngairtear an seandeimhniú feasta san alt seo) i leith an ghabháltais bhunaidh an seandeimhniú a sheachadadh do Chláraitheoir na dTeideal nó, más deimhin leis gur cailleadh nó gur díothaíodh an seandeimhniú, féadfaidh sé tabhairt ar aird an tseandeimhnithe a ligean thar ceal.
(5B) Déanfar, amhail ó dháta na gcláruithe, aon éileamh i leith liain nó aon éilimh eile ar an seandeimhniú a aistriú chuig an deimhniú talún i leith an ghabháltais nua agus ní dhéanfar difear do thosaíocht an éilimh nó na n-éileamh sin.
(5C) Eiseoidh Cláraitheoir na dTeideal an deimhniú talún i leith an ghabháltais nua don duine ag a raibh an seandeimhniú díreach roimh é a sheachadadh do Chláraitheoir na dTeideal nó roimh é a chailleadh no a dhíothú.”
Leasú ar alt 18 den Acht Talmhan, 1927.
31.—Déantar leis seo alt 18 den Acht Talmhan, 1927, a leasú—
(i) tríd an bhfo-alt seo a leanas a chur in ionad fho-alt (4):
“(4) I ngach cás den sórt sin féadfar suim is ionann agusan difríocht idir an méid a chuireann fo-alt (1) den alt seo de dhliteanas ar Choimisiún na Talún, nó ar aon daoine a bheidh ag áitiú na talún mar leithroinnithe nó mar cheannaitheoirí ó Choimisiún na Talún, agus an méid iomlán a bheadh, murach forálacha an fho-ailt sin, inghnóthaithe go dlíthiúil ó na daoine sin i leith rátaí agus riaráistí rátaí, dá dtionscnófaí imeachtaí chun a ngnóthaithe i gcoinne na ndaoine sin an lá ceaptha, a íoc agus a ghlanadh mar éileamh i gcoinne airgead ceannaigh na dtailte i dtosaíocht ar gach éileamh eile i gcoinne an airgid cheannaigh sin.”, agus
(ii) tríd an méid seo a leanas a chur isteach i ndiaidh “‘an lá ceaptha’” i bhfo-alt (5): “agus ‘mar éileamh a ghabhann le praghas atógála an ghabháltais’ a chur in ionad ‘mar éileamh i gcoinne airgead ceannaigh na dtailte.’”
Leasú ar ailt 35 agus 38 den Acht Talún, 1931.
32.—(1) Déantar leis seo alt 35 den Acht Talmhan, 1931, a leasú—
(a) trí “céad punt” a chur in ionad “triocha púnt” gach áit a bhfuil sé,
(b) trí “trí chéad punt” a chur in ionad “céad púnt” gach áit a bhfuil sé, agus
(c) trí “dhá mhíle punt” a chur in ionad “trí chéad púnt” i bhfo-alt (5).
(2) Déantar leis seo alt 38 den Acht Talmhan, 1931, a leasú trí “dhá chéad punt” a chur in ionad “caoga púnt” i bhfo-alt (2).
Leasú ar alt 39 den Acht Talmhan, 1931.
33.—Déantar leis seo alt 39 den Acht Talmhan, 1931, a leasú—
(a) tríd an bhfo-alt seo a leanas a chur in ionad fho-alt (2):
“(2) I dteannta na n-ábhar a luaitear in alt 43 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, áireofar ar chumhachtaí Choimisiún na Talún chun airgead a chaitheamh, ar fheabhsú talún a díoladh nó ar comhaontaíodh é a dhíol faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh, cumhacht chun slite agus cearta slí a thabhairt do Choimisiún na Talún agus dá gceadúnaithe, agus chun sonrú agus leathnú nó feabhsú a dhéanamh ar shlite agus ar chearta slí, thar aon talamh d'fhonn bealach a fhurasú go dtí talamh agus ó thalamh ar bith a díoladh nó ar comhaontaíodh é a dhíol faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh, cibé acu a thugtar nó nach dtugtar na cearta slí sin le hiad a bheith comhghabhálach le haon talamh, agus cibé acu atá nó nach bhfuil aon chríoch-phointe do na slite agus na cearta slí sin ar thailte a díoladh nó ar comhaontaíodh iad a dhíol faoi na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh”, agus
(b) trí “nó a leathnú nó a fheabhsú” a chur isteach i ndiaidh “do bhronna agus do mhíniú” i bhfo-alt (3),
(c) trí “nó a shonrófar nó a leathnófar nó a bhfeabhsófar” a chur isteach i bhfo-alt (3) i ndiaidh “go mbronnfar”,
(d) trí “a shonróidh, nó a leathnóidh nó a fheabhsóidh” a chur isteach i bhfo-alt (4) i ndiaidh “a bhronnfaidh”, agus
(e) trí “dhá chéad punt” a chur in ionad “caoga punt” i bhfo-alt (4).
Leasú ar alt 29 den Acht Talmhan, 1933.
34.—Déantar leis alt 29 den Acht Talmhan, 1933, a leasú trí “£6,000” a chur in ionad “£2,000” gach áit dá bhfuil sé i bhfo-alt (1), agus déanfar na tagairtí atá in alt 28 den Acht Talmhan, 1936, do dhá mhíle punt a fhorléiriú mar thagairtí do shé mhíle punt.
Leasú ar alt 32 den Acht Talmhan, 1933.
35.—(1) Déantar leis seo alt 32 den Acht Talmhan, 1933, a leasú—
(a) tríd an bhfo-alt seo a leanas a chur in ionad fho-alt (3):
“(3) D'ainneoin aon ní san alt seo nó in aon achtachán eile, ní dhéanfaidh Coimisiún na Talún, chun aon chríche seachas chun maolú ar chúngracht sa gharchomharsanacht nó chun páirceanna spóirt, páirceanna poiblí, faichí áineasa nó faichí imeartha a sholáthar nó chun gairdíní a chur ar fáil do scoileanna nó (i gcás talún nach bhfuil faoi bhun caoga slat ó theach cónaithe áitithe a bhí ann i dtosach feidhme na tréimhse cáiliúcháin agus sa chás sin amháin) chun saoráidí a sholáthar do dhaoine a bheadh ag bádóireacht nó ag iascaireacht ar an bhfarraige nó ar loch nó ar abhainn, aon talamh a thógáil go héigeanta más deimhin leis na Coimisinéirí Tuata ina leith—
(a) nach ndearna tionónta nó dílseánach na talún é a thairiscint chun a díolta sa tréimhse cháiliúcháin, agus
(b) gur comhlíonadh bona fide aon cheann de na ceanglais seo a leanas is infheidhme—
(i) i gcás inar duine seachas comhlacht corpraithe tionónta nó dílseánach aonair na talún—go raibh cónaí ar feadh na tréimhse cáiliúcháin go léir ar an talamh nó ina gharchombarsanacht ar an duine sin;
(ii) gcás inar comhlacht corpraithe tionónta nó dílseánach aonair na talún—go raibh cónaí ar feadh na tréimhse cáiliúcháin go léir ar an talamh nó ina gharchomharsanacht ar gach duine dá bhfuil i dteideal leasa thairbhiúil sa chomhlacht corpraithe.
(iii) in aon chás nach luaitear i bhfomhír (i) nó (ii) den mhír seo—go raibh cónaí ar feadh na tréimhse cáiliúcháin go léir ar an talamh nó ina gharchomharsanacht ar na daoine go léir atá i dteideal leasa thairbhiúil in aon chuid den talamh nó in aon scair sa talamh agus ar na daoine go léir atá i dteideal leasa thairbhiúil sa chomhlacht nó sna comhlachtaí corpraithe ag a bhfuil teideal chun aon choda den talamh nó chun aon scair sa talamh;
ar choinníoll nach mbeidh, ná nach meastar go mbeidh, an ceanglas maidir le cónaí arna shásamh i gcás ar bith trí aon fhoráil reachtúil maidir le cónaí ag comhlacht corpraithe a chomhlíonadh, agus
(c) ag féachaint d'achar, suíomh agus mianach na talún sin, don mhéid cúngrachta agus dífhostaíochta atá i ngarchomharsanacht na talún sin agus sa tír i gcoitinne, agus dá mhéid is inmhianaithe táirgeadh bia a mhéadú, gur thug an talamh sin, sa tréimhse cháiliúcháin, leormhéid torthaí talmhaíochta agus leormhéid fostaíochta, agus aon ghaolta le tionónta nó dílseánach na talún atá buanfhostaithe ar an talamh sin a áireamh ar an lucht fostaíochta”, agus
(b) tríd an bhfo-alt seo a leanas a chur isteach i ndiaidh fho-alt (4):
“(5) San alt seo—
folaíonn ‘garchomharsanacht’ aon áit ar deimhin leis na Coimisinéirí Tuata nach bhfuil sé thar trí mhíle ón bpointe is gaire den talamh iomchuí;
ciallaíonn ‘tréimhse cháiliúcháin’ an tréimhse bhliana dar críoch an dáta a fhoilseofar san Iris Oifigiúil an deimhniú agus an liosta sealadach a cheanglaítear le fo-alt (1) d'alt 25 den Acht Talmhan, 1936, a fhoilsiú amhlaidh; forléireofar “cónaí” ar feadh na tréimhse cáiliúcháin go léir’ mar ní a cheanglaíonn go mbeadh gnáth-chónaí ar an talamh nó ina gharchomharsanacht ar an duine nó na daoine a luaitear i bhfomhír (i), (ii) nó (iii) (cibé acu é) de mhír (b) d'fho-alt (3) den alt seo, ar choinníoll go bhféadfaidh na Coimisinéirí Tuata, dá rogha féin, neamhaird a thabhairt chun críocha an ailt seo ar aon tréimhse nó tréimhsí a bhíothas as láthair go sealadach ón talamh más deimhin leo an tréimhse nó na tréimhsí sin a bheith inchurtha de réir réasúin i leith breoiteachta, gnó, oideachais, saoire nó aon chúise eile;
folaíonn ‘tionónta nó dílseánach’ banchéile nó fearchéile tionónta nó dílseánaigh.”
(2) D'ainneoin forálacha fho-alt (1) den alt seo, i gcás aon imeachtaí a bheith ar feitheamh ar dháta an Achta seo a rith maidir le talamh atá ar áireamh i liosta sealadach faoi alt 25 den Acht Talmhan, 1936, a foilsíodh roimh dháta an Achta seo a rith, leanfar de na himeachtaí sin agus críochnófar iad ionann is dá mba rud é nár achtaíodh an t-alt seo.
Leasú ar alt 44 den Acht Talmhan, 1933.
36.—Déantar leis seo alt 44 den Acht Talmhan, 1933, a leasú trí “cibé suim a shocróidh an tAire Airgeadais ó am go ham, tar éis dó dul i gcomhairle leis an Aire,” a chur in ionad “suim chúig céad púnt.”
Leasú ar alt 52 den Acht Talmhan, 1933.
37.—Déantar leis seo alt 52 den Acht Talmhan, 1933, a leasú—
(a) trí “céad punt” a chur in ionad “triocha punt” gach áit a bhfuil na focail deiridh sin, agus
(b) trí “trí chéad punt” a chur in ionad “céad púnt” gach áit a bhfuil na focail deiridh sin.
Leasú ar alt 38 den Acht Talmhan, 1936.
38.—Déantar leis seo alt 38 den Acht Talmhan, 1936, a leasú trí “dhá bhliain” a chur in ionad “seacht mblian” i mír (c) d'fho-alt (1).
Leasú ar alt 13 den Acht Talmhan, 1939.
39.—Déantar leis seo alt 13 den Acht Talmhan, 1939, a leasú tríd an méid seo a leanas a chur isteach i bhfo-alt (1) i ndiaidh mhír (d) (a cuireadh isteach le halt 13 den Acht Talún, 1953)—
“agus
(e) aon airgead eile, nach luaitear i mír (a), (b), (c) nó (d) den fho-alt seo, a bheidh dlite agus ag dul do Choimisiún na Talún ón duine nó thar ceann an duine a bhí cheana ina thionónta nó ina úinéir ar na tailte nó ar na cearta a atógadh, a ceannaíodh nó a fuarthas amhlaidh, i leith na dtailte nó na gceart sin anuas go dtí dáta dáilithe an airgid cheannaigh nó an chúitimh, cibé acu é.”
Leasú ar alt 20 den Acht Talmhan, 1939.
40.—Déantar leis seo alt 20 den Acht Talmhan, 1939, a leasú—
(a) trí “a bheith tar éis gabháltas a chur suas chun a dhíolta ar cheant poiblí agus teideal acu é a chur á dhíol agus nár díoladh an gabháltas nó a bheith tar éis paiste talún a thógáil ó dháilí” a chur i bhfo-alt (1) in ionad “d'fháil seilbhe gabháltais no do thógaint paiste talmhan ó dháilí”, agus
(b) trí “faoi réir cibé teorainneacha a cheadóidh an tAire Airgeadais ó am go ham” a chur i bhfo-alt (1) in ionad “le toiliú an Aire Airgeadais”.
Oibriú orduithe faoi alt 24 den Acht Talmhan, 1939.
41.—(1) Maidir le hordú ó Choimisiún na Talún faoi alt 24 den Acht Talmhan, 1939 (arna leathnú le halt 25 den Acht Talún, 1950, agus arna leasú le halt 23 den Acht Talún, 1953) ag daingniú scéime faoin alt sin 24, oibreoidh sé, agus measfar gur oibrigh sé riamh, chun go gcoimeádfaidh sé ar leithligh—
(a) do gach cuid den talamh a leithroinnfear leis an scéim sin, nó
(b) do gach ceart maidir leis an gcuid nó leis na codanna den talamh a shonrófar sa scéim sin,
na heastáit, na leasanna, na hualaí, na muirir, na dliteanais agus na cothromais uile a bhí, díreach roimh dhéanamh an orduithe, ag baint leis an scair neamhroinnte nó leis an gceart nó na cearta neamhroinnte.
(2) Is forálacha de bhreis ar fhorálacha fho-alt (5) d'alt 24 den Acht Talmhan, 1939, forálacha fho-alt (1) den alt seo, agus ní forálacha ina n-ionad sin iad.
Leasú ar alt 39 den Acht Talmhan, 1939.
42.—(1) Déantar leis seo alt 39 den Acht Talmhan, 1939, a leasú—
(a) tríd an bhfo-alt seo a leanas a chur in ionad fho-alt (6):
“(6) Más deimhin leis na Coimisinéirí Tuata maidir le gabháltas—
(a) nach ndearna an tionónta é a thairiscint chun a dhíolta sa tréimhse cháiliúcháin, agus
(b) gur comhlíonadh bona fide aon cheann de na ceanglais seo a leanas is infheidhme—
(i) i gcás inar duine seachas comhlacht corpraithe an tionónta aonair—go raibh cónaí ar feadh na tréimhse cáiliúcháin go léir ar an ngabháltas nó ina gharchomharsanacht ar an duine sin;
(ii) i gcás inar comhlacht corpraithe an tionónta aonair—go raibh cónaí ar feadh na tréimhse cáiliúcháin go léir ar an ngabháltas nó ina gharchomharsanacht ar gach duine dá bhfuil i dteideal leasa thairbhiúil sa chomhlacht corpraithe;
(iii) in aon chás nach luaitear i bhfomhír (i) nó (ii) den mhír seo—go raibh cónaí ar feadh na tréimhse cáiliúcháin go léir ar an ngabháltas nó ina gharchomharsanacht ar na daoine go léir atá i dteideal leasa thairbhiúil in aon chuid den ghabháltas nó in aon scair sa ghabháltas agus ar na daoine go léir atá i dteideal leasa thairbhiúil sa chomhlacht nó sna comhlachtaí corpraithe ag a bhfuil teideal chun aon choda den ghabháltas nó chun aon scair sa ghabháltas;
ar choinníoll nach mbeidh, ná nach meastar go mbeidh, an ceanglas maidir le cónaí arna shásamh i gcás ar bith trí aon fhoráil reachtúil maidir le cónaí ag comhlacht corpraithe a chomhlíonadh, agus
(c) ag féachaint d'achar, suíomh agus mianach an ghabháltais sin, don mhéid cúngrachta agus dífhostaíochta atá i ngarchomharsanacht an ghabháltas sin agus sa tír i gcoitinne, agus dá mhéid is inmhianaithe táirgeadh bia a mhéadú, gur thug an gabháltas sin, sa tréimhse cháiliúcháin, leormhéid torthaí talmhaíochta agus gur tugadh leormhéid fostaíochta (agus aon ghaolta le tionónta an ghabháltais sin a bhí buanfhostaithe air a áireamh ar an lucht fostaíochta) i gcaitheamh na tréimhse cáiliúcháin, ar an ngabháltas sin, ansin agus sa chás sin, beidh feidhm agus éifeacht ag na forálacha seo a leanas, is é sin le rá:—
(A) d'ainneoin aon ní sna forálacha roimhe seo den alt seo, ní atógfaidh Coimisiún na Talún an gabháltas sin ná aon chuid de chun aon chríche seachas chun maolú ar chúngracht sa gharchomharsanacht ina bhfuil an gabháltas sin, nó chun páirceanna spóirt, páirceanna poiblí, faichí áineasa nó faichí imeartha a sholáthar nó chun gairdíní a chur ar fáil do scoileanna nó (i gcás talún nach gaire ná caoga slat ó theach cónaithe áitithe a bhí ann i dtosach na tréimhse cáiliúcháin agus sa chás sin amháin) chun saoráidí a sholáthar do dhaoine a bheadh ag bádóireacht nó ag iascaireacht ar an bhfarraige nó ar loch nó ar abhainn;
(B) más rud é—
(i) go n-atógfaidh Coimisiún an Talún an gabháltas sin nó cuid de, agus
(ii) go gcónaíonn tionónta an ghabháltais sin nó banchéile nó fearchéile an tionónta sin ar an ngabháltas sin nó ina gharchomharsanacht, agus
(iii) nach bhfuil an tionónta sin ná an bhanchéile nó an fearchéile sin ina úinéir nó ina húinéir ar thalamh (seachas an gabháltas sin nó an chuid de a atógadh) ar mó ná sé mhíle punt a luach ar an margadh, agus
(iv) go n-iarrfaidh an tionónta sin ar Choimisiún na Talún, laistigh den tréimhse fhorordaithe agus ar an modh forordaithe, mura ndearnadh ach cuid den ghábháltas sin a atógáil, an gabháltas sin go léir a atógáil agus (cibé acu go hiomlán nó go páirteach a atógfar an gabháltas sin) an talamh eile go léir (más ann) atá ar teachtadh aige nó is leis i ngarchomharsanacht an ghabháltais sin agus, in aon chás, go n-iarrfaidh sé ar Choimisiún na Talún gabháltas nua a chur ar fáil dó, ansin agus as chás sin déanfaidh Coimisiún na Talún de réir an iarratais sin agus cuirfidh sé ar fáil don tionónta sin gabháltas nua a mheasfaidh na Coimisinéirí Tuata a bheith oiriúnach dó agus a mheasfaidh siad freisin (faoi réir cheart achomhairc chun an Bhinse Achomhairc, agus is cinneadh críochnaitheach cinneadh an Bhinse sin) nach lú a luach ar an margadh ná margadh-luach an ghabháltais atógtha agus na talún eile (más ann) a fuarthas de bhun an iarratais sin nó suim sé mhíle punt, cibé acu is lú;
(C) má chuireann Coimisiún na Talún gabháltas nua ar fáil don tionónta sin de bhun na míre díreach roimhe seo den fho-alt seo, is i mbannaí talún is iníoctha an méid (más aon mhéid é) a bheidh praghas atógála an ghabháltais atógtha, i dteannta phraghas na talún eile (más ann) a fuarthas ón tionónta sin de bhun na míre sin níos mó ná mhargadh-luach an ghabháltais nua sin a chuirfear ar fáil amhlaidh.”, agus
(b) tríd an bhfo-alt seo a leanas a chur i ndiaidh fho-alt (8):
“(9) San alt seo—
ciallaíonn ‘tréimhse cháiliúcháin’ an tréimhse bhliana dar críoch an lá a thabharfar fógra faoi mhír (a) d'fho-alt (2) den alt seo; forléireofar ‘cónaí ar feadh na tréimhse cáiliúcháin go léir’ mar ní a cheanglaíonn go mbeadh gnáthchónaí ar an talamh nó ina gharchomharsanacht ar an duine nó na daoine a luaitear i bhfomhír (i), (ii) nó (iii) (cibé acu é) de mhír (b) d'fho-alt (6) den alt seo, ar choinníoll go bhféadfaidh na Coimisinéirí Tuata, dá rogha féin, neamhaird a thabhairt chun críocha an ailt seo ar aon tréimhse nó tréimhsí a bhíothas as láthair go sealadach ón talamh más deimhin leo an tréimhse nó na tréimhsí sin a bheith inchurtha de réir réasúin i leith breoiteachta, gnó, oideachais, saoire nó aon chúise eile;
folaíonn ‘tionónta nó dílseánach’ banchéile nó fearchéile tionónta nó dílseánaigh;
folaíonn ‘garchomharsanacht’ aon áit ar deimhin leis na Coimisinéirí Tuata nach bhfuil sé thar trí mhíle ón bpointe is gaire den ghabháltas iomchuí.”
(2) D'ainneoin forálacha fho-alt (1) den alt seo, i gcás aon imeachtaí a bheith ar feitheamh ar dháta an Achta seo a rith chun gabháltas a atógáil ar tugadh fógra ina leith faoi mhír (a) d'fho-alt (2) d'alt 39 den Acht Talmhan, 1939, roimh dháta an Achta seo a rith, leanfar de na himeachtaí sin agus críochnófar iad ionann is dá mba rud é nár achtaíodh an t-alt seo.
Leasú ar alt 43 den Acht Talmhan, 1939.
43.—Déantar leis seo alt 43 den Acht Talmhan, 1939, a leasú—
(a) trí “agus ar mbeidh seilbh faighte nó tógtha ag Coimisiún na Talmhan” a scriosadh i bhfo-alt (1), agus
(b) trí “faoi réir cibé teorainneacha a cheadóidh an tAire Airgeadais ó am go ham” a chur i bhfo-alt (2) in ionad “sa mhéid go gceadóidh an tAire Airgeadais é”.
Leasú ar alt 28 den Acht Talún, 1950.
44.—Déantar leis seo alt 28 den Acht Talún, 1950, a leasú tríd an bhfo-alt seo a leanas a chur in ionad fho-alt (12):
“(12) Féadfaidh Coimisiún na Talún aon talamh (arb é an talamh go léir é, nó cuid den talamh, a bhfuair Coimisiún na Talún eastát i bhfeo simplí ann trí cheannach faoi alt 27 den Acht seo nó trí ordú aistrithe) a dhiúscairt chun aon duine nó comhlacht dá luaitear i bhfo-alt (1) d'alt 31 den Acht Talmhan, 1923, arna leathnú le fo-alt (6) d'alt 30 den Acht seo.”
Srian le dílsiú leasanna i dtalamh nach bhfuil i gcontae-bhuirg, i mbuirg, i gceantar uirbeach ná i mbaile.
1851, c. 93.
45.—(1) San alt seo—
ciallaíonn “talamh lena mbaineann an t-alt seo” talamh nach bhfuil i gcontae-bhuirg, i mbuirg, i gceantar uirbeach ná i mbaile;
folaíonn “leas”, maidir le talamh—
(a) eastát,
(b) leas léasach nó tionóntacht (lena n-áirítear leas faoi dheontas go ceann téarma blianta, cibé acu a forcoimeádadh cíos nó nár forcoimeádadh),
(c) leas morgáistí (lena n-áirítear morgáistí cothromais) nó muirearóra,
(d) leas is inchurtha i leith duine a bheith tar éis conradh a dhéanamh chun léas nó tionóntacht a cheannach nó a thógáil,
(e) leas is inchurtha i leith ceart chun bheith cláraithe mar úinéir na talún nó mar úinéir muirir ar an talamh faoi na hAchtanna um Chlárú Teidil, 1891 agus 1942, nó faoin Acht um Chlárú Teidil, 1964,
(f) leas arb é atá ann an ceart chun daingniú a dhéanamh ar chonradh nó idirbheart eile a thugtar le fo-alt (1) d'alt 37 d'Acht na gCuideachtaí, 1963,
(g) leas is inchurtha i leith seilbhe,
agus áirítear ann leasanna cothromais agus leasanna tairbhiúla chomh maith le leasanna dlíthiúla;
ciallaíonn “duine cáilithe” duine atá in aon cheann de na hearnálacha seo a leanas:
(i) saoránach Éireannach,
(ii) duine (seachas comhlacht corpraithe) a raibh gnáthchónaí air sa Stát go leanúnach i gcaitheamh na seacht mbliana dar chríoch an tráth ábhartha,
(iii) duine a mbeidh an tAire Tionscail agus Tráchtála tar éis a dheimhniú ina thaobh gur chruthaigh sé chun sástacht an Aire sin gur chun críche tionscail seachas an talmhaíocht agus chuige sin amháin atá an leas iomchuí á fháil aige,
(iv) údarás áitiúil chun críocha an Achta Rialtais Áitiúil, 1941,
(v) comhlacht corpraithe atá, de bhua ceadúnais a eisíodh faoi Acht na gCuideachtaí, 1963, nó a bhfuil éifeacht aige de bhua an Achta sin, cláraithe faoin Acht sin gan an focal “limited” nó an focal “teoranta” a bheith curtha leis;
(vi) comhlacht corpraithe a bunaíodh le reacht de chuid Shaorstát Éireann nó le hAcht ón Oireachtas,
(vii) comhlacht corpraithe a corpraíodh sa Stát de bhun treoir shonrach nó údarás sonrach i reacht de chuid Shaorstát Éireann nó in Acht ón Oireachtas,
(viii) banc atá ainmnithe sa Tríú Sceideal a ghabhann le hAcht an Bhainc Cheannais, 1942,
(ix) duine a mbeidh Coimisiún na Talún tar éis a dheimhniú ina thaobh gur chruthaigh sé chun a sástachta gur le haghaidh cónaí príobháideach atá an leas iomchuí a fháil aige nuair nach fairsinge ná cúig acra an talamh atá i gceist,
(x) aon earnáil a ndearbhóidh an tAire le rialacháin í a bheith ina hearnáil bhreise chun críocha an mhínithe seo;
ciallaíonn “údarás Stáit”—
(a) Aire Stáit,
(b) Coimisiún na Talún,
(c) na Coimisinéirí Ioncaim,
(d) Coimisinéirí na nOibreacha Poiblí in Éirinn;
aon tagairt do leas a dhílsiú forléireofar í, i gcás leasa théagmhasaigh nó leasa chinniúnaigh nó aon leasa eile nach mbeidh ag dílsiú nuair a bhunófar í, mar thagairt nach dtagraíonn ach amháin do bhunú an leasa.
(2) (a) D'ainneoin aon achtacháin eile nó aon rialach dlí, ach faoi réir mhír (b) den fho-alt seo agus fho-alt (3) den alt seo, ní thiocfaidh aon leas i dtalamh lena mbaineann an t-alt seo chun bheith dílsithe do dhuine nach duine cáilithe ach amháin le toiliú i scríbhinn (cibé acu ginearálta nó sonrach é) ó Choimisiún na Talún agus faoi réir aon choinníollacha a chomhlíonadh a bheidh ag gabháil leis an toiliú, agus beidh cinneadh an iarratais ar an toiliú sin ina ábhar eiscthe chun críocha alt 12 den Acht Talún, 1950.
(b) Ní bheidh feidhm ag mír (a) den fho-alt seo i gcás ina dtiocfaidh leas chun bheith dílsithe—
(i) d'údarás Stáit,
(ii) do dhuine mar ionadaí dlíthiúil pearsanta duine éagtha, nó
(iii) ar eastát duine éagtha a dháileadh má thagann an leas chun bheith dílsithe, i gcás leasa arb eastát réadach é, d'oidhre an duine éagtha nó do dhuine de theaghlach (nach é an t-oidhre é) an duine éagtha nó, in aon chás eile, do dhuine de theaghlach an duine éagtha.
(c) I bhfomhír (iii) de mhír (b) den fho-alt seo ciallaíonn “duine de theaghlach” athair, máthair, leasathair, leasmháthair, fearchéile, banchéile, mac, iníon, ua, banua, leasmhac, leasiníon, deartháir, deirfiúr, deartháir leasghaolmhar, deirfiúr leasghaolmhar, uncail, aintín, nia, neacht, col ceathar, cliamhain nó banchliamhain agus, i gcás baineannaigh éagtha, a leanbh neamhdhlisteanach.
(d) Chun aon ghaol a rianú chun críocha an fho-ailt seo, measfar gur sliocht dlisteanach an uchtóra nó na n-uchtóirí duine ar a ndearnadh uchtáil faoi na hAchtanna Uchtála, 1952 agus 1964,
(3) (a) Faoi réir mhír (b) den fho-alt seo, aon ionstraim lena n-airbheartófar leas i dtalamh lena mbaineann an t-alt seo a theacht chun bheith dílsithe (agus is ionstraim a thabharfadh, ar leithligh ón alt seo, éifeacht don dílsiú sin), tabharfaidh sé éifeacht don dílsiú sin ar choinníoll go mbeidh inti deimhniú ón duine a n-airbheartaítear an leas a dhílsiú ann—
(i) gur tugadh toiliú iomchuí faoin alt seo agus, má bhíonn aon choinníollacha ag gabháil leis an toiliú sin, gur comhlíonadh iad, nó
(ii) go bhfuil an duine a thiocfaidh i dteideal an leasa thairbhiúil iomláin sa leas (nó, i gcás níos mó ná duine amháin a theacht i dteideal leasa thairbhiúil ann, gach duine acu) ina dhuine cáilithe faoi threoir earnála sonraithe den mhíniú ar “duine cáilithe” atá i bhfo-alt (1) den alt seo, nó
(iii) gurb ionstraim í de dhroim conartha a rinneadh roimh dháta an Achta seo a rith, nó
(iv) má bhaineann an ionstraim le cás dá dtagraítear i bhfomhír (iii) de mhír (b) d'fho-alt (2) den alt seo, go bhfuil an cás faoi réim na fomhíre sin,
d'ainneoin aon agóide in aghaidh chruinneas an deimhnithe sin.
(b) Ní bheidh feidhm ag mír (a) den fho-alt seo i gcás ionstraime a bhaineann le cás dá dtagraítear i mír (b) (seachas fomhír (iii) den mhír sin) d'fho-alt (2) den alt seo.
(4) (a) Más é tuairim Choimisiún na Talún nach bhfuil duine ina dhuine cáilithe agus go bhfuil sé, i ndiaidh dáta an Achta seo a rith, tar éis seilbh, áitíocht nó urláimh a fháil ar thalamh lena mbaineann an t-alt seo ar dhóigh seachas faoi threoir thoiliú faoi fho-alt (2) den alt seo, féadfaidh Coimisiún na Talún, le fógra i scríbhinn a sheirbheálfar ar an modh forordaithe ar an duine, a cheangal air ráiteas i scríbhinn a sheachadadh dóibh roimh dháta sonraithe (nach luaithe ná tríocha lá tar éis an fhógra a sheirbheáil) a mbeidh ann cibé sonraí a shonrófar san fhógra maidir lena sheilbh, a áitíocht nó a urláimh ar an talamh, agus déanfaidh an duine de réir an cheanglais.
(b) Sa mhír sin roimhe seo folaíonn “áitíocht” áitíocht nach mbeadh an ach amháin bheith i láthair ar an talamh agus folaíonn “urláimh” urláimh neamhdhíreach.
(5) (a) I gcás ina dtarlóidh, tráth a bheidh leas i dtalamh lena mbaineann an t-alt seo arna dhílsiú i gcomhlacht corpraithe, go dtiocfaidh urláimh an chomhlachta chorpraithe chun bheith aistrithe chuig duine nach duine cáilithe, beidh éifeacht ag na forálacha seo a leanas:
(i) beidh de dhualgas ar an gcomhlacht corpraithe an t-aistriú sin a nochtadh do Choimisiún na Talún laistigh de mhí ó dháta an aistrithe sin, agus
(ii) má thionscnaíonn Coimisiún na Talún imeachtaí chun an talamh nó aon chuid de a fháil nó a atógáil, ní bheidh feidhm ag aon srian dá bhfuil i bhfo-alt (3) d'alt 32 den Acht Talmhan, 1933 (arna leasú de hachtacháin ina dhiaidh sin, lena n-áirítear an tAcht seo) nó i bhfo-alt (6) d'alt 39 den Acht Talmhan, 1939 (arna leasú mar a dúradh).
(b) I mhír (a) den fho-alt seo ciallaíonn “urláimh”, maidir le comhlacht corpraithe, cumhacht duine chun a áirithiú, trí scaireanna a bheith aige nó cumhacht vótála a bheith aige sa chomhlacht corpraithe sin nó maidir leis nó in aon chomhlacht corpraithe eile nó maidir leis, nó de bhua aon chumhachtaí a thugann na hairteagail chomhlachais nó aon doiciméad eile lena rialaítear an comhlacht corpraithe sin nó aon chomhlacht corpraithe eile, go stiúrfar cúrsaí an chomhlachta chorpraithe chéadluaite de réir mar is mian leis an duine sin.
(6) Duine ar bith—
(a) a dhéanfaidh aon ráiteas is eol dó a bheith bréagach nó míthreorach—
(i) i ndáil le hiarratas ar dheimhniú faoi mhír (iii) nó (ix) den mhíniú ar “duine cáilithe” atá i bhfo-alt (1) den alt seo,
(ii) i ndáil le hiarratas ar thoiliú faoi fho-alt (2) den alt seo,
(iii) i ndeimhniú faoi fho-alt (3) den alt seo, nó
(iv) i bhfreagra ar cheanglas faoin alt seo, nó,
(b) a mhainneoidh déanamh de réir ceanglais faoin alt seo, nó
(c) a mhainneoidh eolas a nochtadh a cheanglaítear air leis an alt seo a nochtadh,
beidh sé ciontach i gcion is intriailte, de rogha an ionchúisitheora, go hachomair nó ar díotáil agus—
(i) ar a chiontú go hachomair, dlífear fíneáil nach mó ná dhá chéad punt a chur air nó, de rogha na Cúirte, príosúnacht go ceann téarma nach faide ná dhá mhí dhéag, nó an fhíneáil agus an phríosúnacht sin le chéile, nó
(ii) ar a chiontú ar díotáil, dlífear fíneáil nach mó ná deich míle punt a chur air nó, de rogha na Cúirte, príosúnacht go ceann téarma nach faide ná trí bliana, nó an fhíneáil agus an phríosúnacht sin le chéile.
(7) Má dhéanann comhlacht corpraithe cion faoin alt seo agus go gcruthófar go ndearnadh é le húdarás, toiliú nó ceadú aon stiúrthóra, bhainisteora, rúnaí, nó oifigigh eile de chuid an chomhlachta chorpraithe, nó gur furasaíodh é trí aon fhaillí aige, measfar go ndearna seisean an cion freisin agus dlífear imeachtaí a thabhairt ina choinne agus é a phionósú dá réir sin.
(8) (a) In aon ionchúiseamh i leith ciona faoin alt seo maidir le deimhniú faoi fho-alt (3) den alt seo, toimhdeofar, go dtí go gcruthóidh an cosantóir a mhalairt—
(i) más deimhniú é de bhun fhomhír (i) de mhír (a) den fho-alt sin agus gur ráiteas maidir le toiliú iomchuí a thabhairt an ráiteas—nár tugadh toiliú den sórt sin,
(ii) más deimhniú de bhun fho-mhír (ii) den mhír sin é—nár dhuine cáilithe faoi threoir na hearnála a sonraíodh dó an duine a tháinig i dteideal an leasa thairbhiúil iomláin sa leas (nó, i gcás níos mó ná duine amháin a theacht i dteideal leasa thairbhiúil ann, gach duine acu),
(iii) más deimhniú de bhun fhomhír (iii) den mhír sin é—nárbh ionstraim de dhroim conartha a rinneadh roimh dháta an Achta seo a rith an ionstraim, agus
(iv) más deimhniú de bhun fhomhír (iv) den mhír sin é —nár chás a tháinig faoi réim fhomhír (iii) de mhír (b) d'fho-alt (2) den alt seo an cás.
(b) In aon ionchúiseamh i leith ciona faoin alt seo maidir le heolas a nochtadh is gá a nochtadh de réir fho-alt (5) den alt seo, toimhdeofar, go dtí go gcruthóidh an cosantóir a mhalairt, nár dhuine cáilithe an t-aistrí.
(c) In aon ionchúiseamh i leith ciona faoin alt seo maidir le ceanglas faoi fho-alt (4) den alt seo, féadfar fianaise go raibh Coimisiún na Talún ar an tuairim a shonraítear san fho-alt sin a thabhairt trí dheimhniú faoi shéala Choimisiún na Talún a thabhairt ar aird á dheimhniú go raibh siad ar an tuairim sin.
(9) (a) Féadfar toiliú ó Choimisiún na Talún chun críocha an ailt seo a thabhairt go siarghabhálach agus, má thugtar amhlaidh é, beidh éifeacht aige dá réir sin.
(b) Féadfar fianaise ar thoiliú ó Choimisiún na Talún chun críocha an ailt seo a thabhairt in aon imeachtaí dlíthiúla trí dheimhniú faoi shéala Choimisiún na Talún a thabhairt ar aird á dheimhniú gur thug siad an toiliú sin.
(c) I gcás toiliú a thabhairt de bhua mhír (a) den fho-alt seo tar éis forghníomhú na hionstraime iomchuí, measfar an deimhniú iomchuí faoi mhír (a) d'fho-alt (3) den alt seo a bheith san ionstraim.
(10) Má bhíonn aon choinníoll i gconradh trína n-iarrfar cosc a chur le ceanglais maidir le toiliú ó Choimisiún na Talún chun críocha an ailt seo, beidh an coinníoll sin ar neamhní.
(11) D'ainneoin fho-alt (4) d'alt 10 den Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, féadfar imeachtaí achomaire i leith ciona faoin alt seo a thionscnamh laistigh de thrí bliana ó dháta an chiona.
(12) Na forálacha atá san alt seo chun srian a chur le leasanna i dtalamh lena mbaineann an t-alt seo a dhílsiú, measfar iad a bheith ar áireamh sna forálacha sriantacha lena mbaineann fo-alt (1) d'alt 38 den Registration of Title Act, 1891, agus fo-alt (1) d'alt 59 den Acht um Chlárú Teidil, 1964.
(13) Gach rialachán a dhéanfar faoi mhír (x) den mhíniú ar “duine cáilithe” atá i bhfo-alt (1) den alt seo, leagfar é faoi bhráid gach Tí den Oireachtas a luaithe is féidir tar éis a dhéanta.
Leasú ar alt 17 den Acht Talún, 1953.
46.—Déantar leis seo alt 17 den Acht Talún, 1953, a leasú trí “nó a dtáinig siad i dteideal a gcláraithe mar únaeraí uirthi” a chur isteach i ndiaidh “únaeraí cláraithe” i bhfo-alt (2).
Aisghairm.
47.—Déantar leis seo na hachtacháin a luaitear sa Chéad Sceideal a aisghairm a mhéid a shonraítear sa tríú colún.
Gearrtheideal, forléiriú agus lua.
48.—(1) Féadfar an tAcht Talún, 1965, a ghairm den Acht seo.
(2) Forléireofar an tAcht seo agus na hAchtanna Talamh-Cheannaigh mar aon ní amháin agus féadfar é a lua í dteannta na nAchtanna sin.
AN CHEAD SCEIDEAL
Seisiún agus Caibidil nó Uimhir agus Bliain | Gearrtheideal | Méid na hAisghairme |
33 & 34 Vict. c. 46. | The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870. | Alt 44, ó “No purchaser,” go dtí deireadh an ailt. |
44 & 45 Vict. c. 49. | Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881. | Alt 30. |
3 Edw. 7. c.37. | Irish Land Act, 1903. | Alt 54. |
9 Edw. 7. c.42. | Irish Land Act, 1909. | Alt 32. |
9 & 10 Geo. 5. c.82. | Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919. | Mír (a) d'fho-alt (1) d'alt 2. |
Mír (c) d'fho-alt (6) d'alt 46; fo-alt (7) d'alt 46; fo-ailt (1) agus (2) d'alt 65. | ||
Fo-ailt (1) agus (3) d'alt 3; fo-ailt (1) agus (2) d'alt 4; alt 5. | ||
Alt 44. | ||
Mír (c) d'fho-alt (1) d'alt 27. | ||
Fo-alt (1) d'alt 15; fo-alt (3) d'alt 17. |
AN DARA SCEIDEAL
Dún na nGall | |
Gaillimh | |
Ciarraí | |
Liatraim | |
Maigh Eo | |
Ros Comáin | |
Sligeach | |
An chuid de Chontae an Chláir is ionann agus na sean-tuathcheantair seo a leanas: Baile Uí Bheacháin, Inis Díomáin, Cill Rois, An Scairbh, An Tulach agus Cill an Dísirt. | |
An chuid d'Iarthar Chorcaí is ionann agus na sean-tuathcheantair seo a leanas: Beanntraí, Baile an Chaisleáin, An Scoilagus An Sciobairín. |
Number 2 of 1965.
LAND ACT, 1965
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Acts Referred to | |
1952, No. 25 | |
1964, No. 2 | |
1942, No. 22 | |
1963, No. 33 | |
Irish Church Act Amendment Act, 1881 | 1881, c. 71 |
Irish Church Act, 1869 | 1869, c. 42 |
1923, No. 42 | |
1927, No. 19 | |
1931, No. 11 | |
1933, No. 38 | |
1936, No. 41 | |
1939, No. 26 | |
1950, No. 16 | |
1953, No. 18 | |
1934, No. 11 | |
1949, No. 25 | |
1941, No. 23 | |
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851 | 1851, c. 93 |
Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891 | 1891, c. 48 |
1964, No. 16 | |
1957, No. 6 | |
Number 2 of 1965.
LAND ACT, 1965
Definitions.
1.—In this Act, save where the context otherwise requires—
“congested area” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section 4;
“the Minister” means the Minister for Lands;
“prescribed” means prescribed by the appropriate rules or regulations referred to in section 2;
“works” means any works whatsoever and includes any river, stream, natural or artificial watercourse, canal, drain, pond, lake or other area covered by water, and any natural or artificial bank or embankment;
every reference to a holding or land shall be construed as including a reference to part or parts of a holding or land and to a parcel of land in whole or in part and to an incorporeal hereditament in whole or in part;
every reference to purchase money shall be construed as including a reference to any redemption price of a superior interest, any resumption price, any compensation or any fund, and any residue of such redemption price, resumption price, compensation or fund, and any share in such redemption price, resumption price, compensation or fund, and any residue of such share.
Rules and regulations.
2.—(1) The power of making rules conferred by subsections (1) and (2) of section 3 of the Land Act, 1933, shall extend to and be exercisable for making rules for carrying into effect the provisions (other than provisions relating to land purchase finance) of this Act.
(2) The Minister for Finance may make rules and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act relating to land purchase finance and may by such rules and regulations adapt to the requirements of this Act any provisions relating to land purchase finance contained in any Act passed before this Act.
Payments and expenses.
3.—The payments made and expenses incurred by the Minister and by the Land Commission in giving effect to this Act and in the administration thereof shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.
Order declaring area to be a congested area.
4.—(1) Each of the following shall be a congested area for the purposes of this Act—
(a) a county or portion of a county specified in the Second Schedule to this Act;
(b) such other area as may from time to time be declared by order of the Minister to be a congested area.
(2) When making an order, under subsection (1) of this section, the Minister shall have regard to the size of the holdings, the quality of the land and the type or types of farming carried on in the area to be declared a congested area.
(3) The Minister may by order amend or revoke an order under subsection (1) of this section.
Advances for purchase of land by persons in congested areas.
5.—(1) The Land Commission may, in accordance with regulations under this section, make an advance to a qualified person in connection with the purchase by him of land.
(2) (a) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations for the purpose of giving effect to this section and any such regulations may include such supplemental or incidental provisions as appear to the Minister to be expedient.
(b) Regulations under this section may, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a) of this subsection, make provision in relation to all or any of the following matters—
(i) the charging of the advance on the land, whether by charging order made by the Land Commission or otherwise;
(ii) the obtaining by the Land Commission of security, whether by charge or otherwise, for an advance under this section;
(iii) the amount of an advance under this section;
(iv) the method of repayment of an advance under this section;
(v) the payment of interest on an advance under this section;
(vi) the payment by a qualified person to the Land Commission of a fee or fees for an inspection or inspections deemed necessary by the Land Commission in respect of an application for an advance under this section;
(vii) the application of such existing provisions in the Land Purchase Acts or the Land Reclamation Act, 1949, as the Minister deems necessary, relating to vesting of land and to the apportionment, consolidation, charging and recovery of advances under this section and the adaptation where necessary of references in such provisions.
(3) (a) Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on any instrument made for the purpose of this section.
(b) No fee or other payment shall be charged or imposed by the Registry of Deeds in respect of any document which is necessary for or in relation to an advance under this section.
(4) In this section—
“qualified person” means a person (including a joint owner or tenant in common) to whom in the opinion of the Land Commission an advance ought to be made and who is the tenant or proprietor of a holding which is—
(a) situate in a congested area,
(b) suitable, in the opinion of the Land Commission, for land settlement purposes, and
(c) agreed to be sold to the Land Commission within such period as is specified in regulations under this section.
Grant of life annuity under this Act.
6.—(1) Whenever a person (in this section referred to as the vendor) who is elderly, incapacitated or blind, sells an interest in land voluntarily to the Land Commission (whether such interest is held severally, jointly, or in common) the Land Commission may, at the option of the vendor, and in lieu of the payment in cash of the whole or part of the purchase price, grant to the vendor a life annuity in accordance with regulations under this section.
(2) A life annuity under this section shall be of such value as, on the date of the closing of the sale of the interest, is actuarially equivalent (in accordance with such tables as, on that date, stand approved of by the Minister for Finance for the purposes of this section) to the whole or part of the purchase price in lieu of the payment of which the life annuity is granted.
(3) In the case of a vendor who on the date of the closing of the sale is married and whose spouse (not being interested jointly or in common in the land) is alive on that date, an annuity under this Act shall be so calculated as to provide—
(a) an annuity (in this Act and any regulations under this section referred to as a primary annuity) payable until the death of either the vendor or the vendor's spouse, and
(b) an annuity (in this Act and any regulations under this section referred to as a secondary annuity) of an amount equal to one half of the amount of the primary annuity payable from the death of the vendor or the spouse of the vendor until the death of the surviving spouse.
(4) A vendor who on the date of the closing of the sale is unmarried or is a widower or widow may nominate a person who is a dependant of the vendor, and, if such nomination is approved by the Land Commission, subsection (3) of this section shall apply to the vendor and the dependant in the same manner as if the dependant were the spouse of the vendor.
(5) (a) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations for the purpose of giving effect to this section and any such regulations may include such supplemental or incidental provisions as appear to the Minister to be expedient.
(b) Regulations under this section may, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a) of this subsection, make provision in relation to all or any of the following matters—
(i) prescribing the class or classes of persons who for the purposes of this section shall be deemed to be elderly, incapacitated or blind;
(ii) the payment by the Land Commission of the vendor's costs and expenses incurred in relation to the sale of the interest to the Land Commission;
(iii) the minimum purchase price or part of a purchase price in respect of which the vendor may exercise the option mentioned in subsection (1) of this section;
(iv) the period within which the vendor shall exercise the said option (if any);
(v) the grant by the Land Commission of a right of residence in a dwellinghouse on the land to the vendor for the life of the vendor and thereafter to the surviving spouse or dependant (if any) of the vendor for the life of that spouse or dependant;
(vi) the conditions (if any) affecting such right of residence.
(c) Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made.
(6) In this section—
“dependant” means, in relation to a vendor, a member of the family of the vendor who, on the date of the closing of the sale, is wholly or in part dependant on the earnings of the vendor;
“member of the family” means father, mother, step-father, step-mother, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, first cousin, son-in-law or daughter-in-law and, in the case of a female vendor, her illegitimate child.
(7) In deducing any relationship for the purposes of this section, a person adopted under the Adoption Acts, 1952 and 1964, shall be considered the legitimate offspring of the adopter or adopters.
Payment of certain purchase annuities, etc., in full.
7.—(1) Whenever a payment to which this section applies becomes due to the Land Commission, such payment shall, notwithstanding anything contained in Part III of the Land Act, 1933, or in section 42 of the Land Act, 1939, be payable in full by the person or persons liable from time to time to make such payment.
(2) This section applies to a rent, annual and additional sum, purchase annuity, purchase money in cash, interest on purchase money and any other payment payable to the Land Commission in respect of land, or an incorporeal hereditament, not situate in a congested area, which either is sold by the Land Commission by public auction or private contract or is allotted under a scheme approved of by the Land Commission after the passing of this Act to a person referred to in paragraph (a) or paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of section 31 of the Land Act, 1923; provided however, that where, subsequent to the passing of this Act, the area in which such land is situate is declared by order of the Minister under subsection (1) of section 4 of this Act to be a congested area, this section shall not, as on and from the gale day next after the making of the order, apply to such land, and provided that this section shall not apply to a payment in respect of land or an incorporeal hereditament which the Land Commission (by reason of a default in the payment of any money, a breach of condition, or any other default) have either caused to be sold or have taken up or obtained possession of, and the purchase annuity or other payment in respect of which has been revised under Part III of the Land Act, 1933.
(3) A certificate under the common seal of the Land Commission certifying that a payment is in respect of land, or an incorporeal hereditament, mentioned in subsection (2) of this section shall be prima facie evidence of the fact so certified.
(4) The Land Commission shall have for the recovery of any payment referred to in this section the same remedies as they have for the recovery of unpaid instalments of purchase annuities.
Power of Lay Commissioners to summon witnesses.
8.—(1) For the removal of doubt, it is hereby enacted that the Lay Commissioners may for the purposes of such of their functions as may require a hearing do all or any of the following things—
(a) summon witnesses to attend before them,
(b) examine on oath (which any Lay Commissioner is hereby authorised to administer) witnesses attending before them,
(c) require any such witness to produce to them any document in his power or control.
(2) A witness before the Lay Commissioners at such a hearing shall be entitled to the same immunities and privileges as if he were a witness before the High Court.
(3) A summons shall be signed by at least one Lay Commissioner.
(4) If any person—
(a) on being duly summoned as a witness before the Lay Commissioners at such a hearing makes default in attending, or
(b) being in attendance as a witness at such a hearing refuses to take an oath legally required by the Lay Commissioners to be taken, or to produce any document in his power or control legally required by the Lay Commissioners to be produced by him, or to answer any question to which a Lay Commissioner may legally require an answer, or
(c) does any other thing which would, if the Lay Commissioners were a court of law having power to commit for contempt of court, be contempt of such court,
the Lay Commissioners may certify the offence of that person under the common seal of the Land Commission to the High Court and the High Court may, after such inquiry as it thinks proper to make, punish or take steps for the punishment of that person in like manner as if he had been guilty of contempt of the High Court.
Power of local authority to contribute to cost of certain works by Land Commission.
9.—(1) For the purpose of removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that a local authority has and always had power to make a payment to the Land Commission by way of contribution towards the cost of works carried out or proposed to be carried out by the Land Commission from which, on the completion of the works, the local authority has derived or is likely to derive a benefit.
(2) In this section “local authority” means a council of a county, a corporation of a county or other borough, a council of an urban district, or any other statutory body which may be concerned in works mentioned in subsection (1) of this section.
Exoneration of Minister for Lands and Land Commission from certain obligations and liabilities.
10.—(1) For the purpose of removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that, subject to subsection (2) of this section, nothing contained in or done under the Land Purchase Acts or any other enactment or any rule of law or any implied contract shall operate or be deemed ever to have operated to impose on the Minister for Lands or the Land Commission—
(a) any obligation to cleanse, maintain, repair or restore any works, or
(b) any liability in respect of an act or omission of an officer, servant or agent of the Minister or the Land Commission (not being a negligent act or omission) in relation to the construction, cleansing, maintenance, repair or restoration of any works, being an act or omission constituting a tort on or in relation to any land purchased or agreed to be purchased under the Land Purchase Acts or dealt with under the Irish Church Act, 1869, or the Irish Church Act Amendment Act, 1881, or the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Acts, or on or in relation to any land adjoining such first-mentioned land.
(2) Where land is during any period in the sole and exclusive occupation of the Land Commission, subsection (1) of this section shall not operate to relieve the Land Commission during such period from—
(a) any obligation (however imposed or arising) to cleanse, maintain, or restore any works on that land, or
(b) any liability in respect of any act which was done, or omission which occurred, when carrying out the construction, cleansing, maintenance, repair or restoration of any works, being an act or omission constituting a tort on or in relation to that land or on or in relation to any land adjoining such first-mentioned land.
(3) The fact that the Land Commission has at any time or times constructed, cleansed, maintained, repaired or restored any works shall not, of itself, operate or be deemed ever to have operated to impose a liability on the Land Commission to cleanse, maintain, repair or restore such works.
Exemption of Land Commission from liability for certain rates.
11.—(1) Where in respect of any hereditament not being a hereditament consisting of land without a building or buildings thereon—
(a) the county rate or municipal rate in respect of the local financial year in which this Act is passed or any subsequent local financial year is made on the Land Commission, and
(b) the Land Commission certify under their common seal that the building or buildings comprised in the hereditament were unoccupied at the date of the making of the said rate,
the relevant rates shall not be payable by the Land Commission or by a subsequent occupier of the hereditament.
(2) Where, after the date of the making of the county rate or municipal rate, the building or buildings comprised in such a hereditament are occupied by an occupier other than the Land Commission during any period in the local financial year in which this Act is passed or any subsequent local financial year, a part of the relevant rates for such local financial year bearing to the whole of the said relevant rates the same proportion as that period bears to a year shall be payable by that occupier and shall be recoverable in the same manner as if he had been originally rated for such building or buildings and, in default of payment by him, shall be payable by and recoverable from any subsequent occupier of the building or buildings.
(3) In this section “relevant rates” means the rates (whether for county rate or municipal rate) payable in respect of any building or buildings comprised in a hereditament as respects which the Land Commission has certified in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section that the building or buildings were unoccupied at the date of the making of the county or municipal rate in respect of the hereditament.
Prohibition of letting, subletting or subdivision of certain holdings without consent of Land Commission.
12.—(1) An agricultural holding shall not be let, sublet or subdivided without the consent in writing of the Land Commission, and such consent may be either general or particular and may be subject to such conditions (if any) as the Land Commission think fit.
(2) The power of the Land Commission to withhold their consent under this section shall be exercised solely to prevent the creation or continuance of holdings which, in the opinion of the Land Commission, are not economic holdings.
(3) Any attempted or purported letting, subletting or subdivision in contravention of this section shall be null and void as against all persons; provided, however, that in any case where the consent of the Land Commission under this Act is given after the attempted or purported letting, subletting or subdivision, such consent shall, if the Land Commission so direct, so operate as to validate with retrospective effect such attempted or purported letting, subletting or subdivision.
(4) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to any holding which is not subject to purchase annuity or other payment payable to the Land Commission, and either—
(a) the whole of such holding is situate within the boundary of any county borough, borough, urban district or town, or
(b) the Land Commission certify under their common seal that in their opinion such holding, by reason of its proximity to a county borough, borough, urban district or town, is required for urban development.
(5) The reference in subsection (2) of section 3 of the Land Act, 1927, to the consent of the Land Commission to a subdivision under that section shall be construed as a reference to the consent of the Land Commission under this Act.
(6) Where but for this section a title to a part or parts of a holding would be acquired by possession, the consent of the Land Commission under this section shall be required to such acquisition; provided that, in any case where the title has been or is acquired (whether before or after the passing of this Act) by or through possession wholly antecedent to the passing of this Act, such consent shall not be required.
(7) Every stipulation in a contract for the sale of land whereby the purchaser is precluded from making requisitions in relation to a letting, subletting or subdivision of an agricultural holding shall be null and void.
(8) In this section—
“agricultural”, in relation to a holding, means substantially agricultural or pastoral or substantially agricultural and pastoral in character;
“holding”, in relation to a particular tenant or proprietor, means all the land held by him at or after the passing of this Act under a single demise or to which he has acquired title by possession, whether fee simple, fee farm grant, leasehold or from year to year (whether or not under statutory conditions), and whether held jointly or in common or alone or in severalty, and whether or not purchased under the Land Purchase Acts or registered or deemed to be registered under the Registration of Title Acts, 1891 and 1942, or the Registration of Title Act, 1964; provided that where two or more than two such holdings stand consolidated they shall be deemed to be one holding and that, where two or more than two registered properties are registered in the same ownership and have not been consolidated by the Land Commission, they shall be deemed to be separate holdings for the purposes of this section;
“subdivision” includes any claim whatsoever to title to a part or parts of a holding, whether by disposition to one or more than one person, and “subdivide” shall be construed accordingly.
Prohibition of sale, transfer, letting or subletting of certain lands without consent of Land Commission.
13.—(1) Where a provisional list under subsection (2) of section 40 of the Land Act, 1923, has been published after the passing of this Act, the lands (or any part thereof) mentioned in the provisional list shall not, until the termination of proceedings under the Land Purchase Acts for the acquisition of the lands, be sold, transferred, let, sublet or subdivided without the consent in writing of the Land Commission.
(2) Where a notice under subsection (6) (as amended by section 29 of this Act) of section 40 of the Land Act, 1923, has been served after the passing of this Act, the lands (or any part thereof) mentioned in the notice shall not, in the period of three months commencing on the date of the service of the notice, be sold, transferred, let, sublet or subdivided without the consent in writing of the Land Commission; provided, however, that the Lay Commissioners may by order (which shall be an excepted matter for the purposes of section 12 of the Land Act, 1950) extend the said period by a further three months and also that notice of the said order shall be served by the Land Commission in the prescribed manner.
(3) Where a notice under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 39 of the Land Act, 1939, that the Land Commission propose to apply for leave to resume has been given, the holding mentioned in the notice shall not, until the termination of proceedings under the Land Purchase Acts for the resumption of the holding, be sold, transferred, let, sublet or subdivided in whole or in part without the consent in writing of the Land Commission.
(4) Any attempted or purported sale, transfer, letting, subletting or subdivision in contravention of this section shall be null and void as against all persons; provided, however, that in any case where the consent of the Land Commission under this Act is given after the attempted or purported sale, transfer, letting, subletting or subdivision, such consent shall, if the Land Commission so direct, so operate as to validate with retrospective effect such attempted or purported sale, transfer, letting, subletting or subdivision.
(5) Whenever a provisional list or a notice referred to in this section affecting registered land is published or served, the Land Commission shall furnish a copy of the list or notice to the Registrar of Titles who shall, upon receipt by him of such copy, make such entries in the appropriate register as appear to him to be necessary and shall, as soon as may be after the expiry of the appropriate period or receipt by him of notification from the Land Commission of the termination of the proceedings referred to in this section, cancel such entries.
Appointment of Land Commission Nominees.
14.—(1) Where, in any proceedings under the Land Purchase Acts, the Land Commission deem it necessary or expedient for the exercise of their powers under those Acts so to do, they may, after compliance with subsection (2) of this section, by order appoint any person or persons appearing to them to be in receipt of the rents and profits or to have the control and management of any land (in this section referred to as the land) or, if there be no such person or persons or if such person or any one of such persons is under a disability, some other person, to be the nominee, for the purposes of those proceedings but for no other purpose, of all persons interested in the land, and may where necessary vest the land, or (in the case of any exchange of land under the Land Purchase Acts) other land, in that person.
(2) Before making an order under subsection (1) of this section the Land Commission shall give notice in the prescribed form of their intention to make the order to the person whom it is proposed to appoint to be nominee.
(3) A nominee appointed under this section shall, notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law, fully and effectively represent all persons interested in the land for the purposes of the proceedings in relation to which the appointment is made (including the service of documents, but excluding the distribution of purchase money), but not further or otherwise, and may do all acts necessary to bring the said proceedings to completion, including, whether or not the land is registered land, transferring the land.
(4) The Land Commission may by order—
(a) terminate an appointment under subsection (1) of this section, and
(b) appoint a person other than the person whose appointment is so terminated to be nominee in the same proceedings, and where necessary vest the land in that other person.
(5) Whenever an order affecting registered land is made under this section the Land Commission shall furnish a copy of the order to the Registrar of Titles who shall, upon receipt by him of the copy of the order, make such changes in the appropriate register as appear to him to be necessary.
(6) Where land is vested by the Land Commission in a nominee under this section, the interest so vested shall be a graft on the interest of all persons whom the nominee represents.
(7) A person appointed to be a nominee under this section shall not, by reason only of such appointment, be a trustee for the purposes of the Statute of Limitations, 1957.
(8) A person appointed to be a nominee under this section may be known, and shall be sufficiently described, by the title of Land Commission Nominee.
(9) No appointment shall be made under section 54 of the Land Act, 1939, after the form referred to in subsection (2) of this section has been prescribed.
Exercise of certain powers and functions by Examiners of Land Commission authorised for the purpose.
15.—(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Land Purchase Acts, the powers and functions of the Judicial Commissioner and the Land Commission in relation to the distribution of purchase money (including the certifying under subsection (2) of section 5 of the Land Act, 1923, of sums out of the Costs Fund established under that section) may be exercised by such Examiners of the Land Commission as the Minister, with the consent of the Judicial Commissioner, may authorise for the purpose.
(2) Any person aggrieved by a decision of an Examiner authorised under subsection (1) of this section, being a decision of such Examiner in the exercise of the powers and functions mentioned in that subsection, may, in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed time, appeal against such decision to the Judicial Commissioner whose decision thereon shall, subject to subsection (3) of this section, be final and not appealable.
(3) An appeal from a decision of the Judicial Commissioner under subsection (2) of this section shall lie to the Supreme Court on a specified question of law.
Acceptable root of title.
16.—(1) The Judicial Commissioner may, notwithstanding the provisions of the Land Purchase Acts or any other enactment, at his discretion, issue general directions to an Examiner authorised for the purpose of subsection (1) of section 15 of this Act, to accept, as the period of commencement of title which the owner, tenant or other claimant shall be required to deduce, a period of not less than—
(a) twelve years beginning on the date of a conveyance, transfer or assignment for valuable consideration of the land or holding, and ending on the date on which the land or tenant's interest therein vested in the Land Commission, or
(b) thirty years ending on the date on which the land or tenant's interest therein vested in the Land Commission,
whichever is the shorter.
(2) In the event of a claim against the purchase money being unsatisfied on distribution by reason of the exercise of the discretion conferred by subsection (1) of this section, the provisions of section 34 of the Land Act, 1931, regarding compensation shall apply.
Indemnity for Examiner.
17.—An Examiner shall not be liable to any action, suit or proceeding for or in respect of any act or matter bona fide done or omitted to be done by him in pursuance of section 15 or 16 of this Act.
Extinguishment of certain sporting rights.
18.—Where—
(a) lands have been registered under the Registration of Title Acts, 1891 and 1942, or the Registration of Title Act, 1964,
(b) on such registration the sporting rights other than fishing rights on or over such lands were reserved to a person other than the registered owner, and
(c) the said rights so reserved have not been exercised in the period of twelve years ending on the passing of this Act or in any period of twelve years ending on a date subsequent to the passing of this Act,
the said rights so reserved shall, and are hereby declared to, cease to exist on the expiry of such period and, upon application being made by any person interested the Registrar of Titles shall, if satisfactory evidence of the exercise of the said rights in such period is not forthcoming, cause the entry of the said rights to be cancelled in the appropriate register.
Incorporeal hereditaments.
19.—(1) For the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that—
(a) the reference in subsection (1) of section 31 of the Land Act, 1923, to parcels of land shall include, and shall be deemed always to have included, incorporeal hereditaments, and
(b) the references in subsection (3) of that section (as amended by subsection (2) of this section) to a parcel of land or any parcel of land shall include, and shall be deemed always to have included, an incorporeal hereditament.
(2) Subsection (3) of section 31 of the Land Act, 1923, is hereby amended by the substitution for “and the expression ‘holding’ in those Acts shall include a parcel of land in respect of the purchase of which an advance has been made in pursuance of this section” of “and ‘holding’ in those Acts shall include, and be deemed always to have included, any parcel of land sold or agreed to be sold under those Acts”.
Extension of powers of Land Commission to provide rights of way.
20.—(1) The powers of the Land Commission to expend money for the benefit or improvement of any lands shall, in addition to the matters mentioned in section 43 of the Land Act, 1923, and section 39 (as amended by section 33 of this Act) of the Land Act, 1931, include power to confer on the Land Commission and their licensees, and to define and extend or improve, ways and rights of way over any land whatsoever (including any accretion, through alluvion or dereliction, whether or not caused by drainage), for the purpose of facilitating passage to and from the sea or to and from a lake or river which adjoins lands sold or agreed to be sold under the Land Purchase Acts, whether such rights of way are or are not conferred as to be appurtenant to any land, and whether any terminal point of such ways and rights of way is or is not situate on lands sold or agreed to be sold under the Land Purchase Acts.
(2) The powers conferred on the Land Commission by section 43 of the Land Act, 1923, and section 39 (as amended by section 33 of this Act) of the Land Act, 1931, and extended by this section, may be exercised for the purposes of conferring and defining and extending—
(a) rights to park vehicles or to beach boats, and
(b) rights to moor or anchor boats.
(3) The powers of the Land Commission under this section shall not be exercised compulsorily in relation to any right over land situate within fifty yards of an occupied dwellinghouse which was in existence at the commencement of the period of six months ending on the date of the notice in respect of that right served by the Land Commission.
Operation of certain vesting orders.
21.—(1) Where land is vested in a purchaser by a vesting order, a vesting fiat or other instrument and the order or instrument provides for the consolidation of the land with land registered, or deemed to be registered, under the Registration of Title Acts, 1891 and 1942, (in this section referred to as the registered land), the order or instrument shall operate to vest the land in the purchaser in the same capacity, and subject to the same trusts (if any), as he holds the registered land.
(2) Where—
(a) land is vested, whether before or after the passing of this Act, in a purchaser by a vesting order under the Land Purchase Acts, and
(b) it is stated in the vesting order that the land is given in exchange for registered land,
the provisions of section 46 of the Land Act, 1923, shall apply as if the exchange had been carried into effect pursuant to agreement under that section and as if for the references in subsection (3) of that section to the date of registration there were substituted references to the date of the vesting order.
Effect of death on vesting order.
22.—The following section is hereby substituted for section 63 of the Land Act, 1923:
“63.—(1) A vesting order shall not be void by reason of the death before the execution thereof of the person in whom the lands comprised in the order are purported to be vested, but shall be effectual to vest, and shall be deemed always to have vested, the said lands in the personal representative of such person to such uses and upon such trusts as the said lands would have stood limited if they had been vested in such person immediately prior to his death.
(2) Where a vesting order purports to vest lands in a person as limited owner, the order shall not be void by reason only of the death of the person before the execution thereof, but shall be effectual to vest, and shall be deemed always to have vested, the said lands in the parties next entitled thereto to such uses and upon such trusts as the said lands would have stood limited had they been vested in such person immediately prior to his death.
(3) Where a vesting order purports to vest lands in persons as joint tenants it shall not be void by reason only of the death of one or more than one of such persons before the execution thereof, but shall be effectual to vest, and shall be deemed always to have vested, the said lands in the survivor or survivors to such uses and upon such trusts as the said lands would have stood limited if they had been vested in all such persons immediately prior to the death or deaths, as the case may be.
(4) In this section ‘vesting order’ means a vesting order under the Land Purchase Acts and includes a vesting fiat or other instrument purporting to vest land in a purchaser.”.
Power to make certain vesting orders.
23.—For the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that the Land Commission have power to make a vesting order under section 28 of the Land Act, 1931, in respect of a holding for which a purchase agreement has been executed.
Deficiencies arising out of operation of Statute of Limitations, 1957.
24.—(1) A deficiency in the local loans fund, the purchase annuities fund or the land bond fund, arising out of the operation of section 24 of the Statute of Limitations, 1957, shall not be a charge on the Guarantee Fund established under section 5 of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891.
(2) A deficiency in any account or fund other than the purchase annuities fund arising out of the operation of section 24 of the Statute of Limitations, 1957, shall be made good to the appropriate fund out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas at such times and in such manner as the Minister for Finance directs.
Consolidation of holdings.
25.—(1) The powers of the Land Commission under section 66 of the Land Act, 1923, to consolidate certain holdings are hereby extended to include power by order to consolidate any two or more than two holdings, whether or not subject to purchase annuity, whenever in the opinion of the Land Commission such consolidation is necessary or desirable for the purposes of the Land Purchase Acts and the tenant or proprietor of the holdings consents to such consolidation.
(2) Upon the creation of a consolidated holding under section 66 of the Land Act, 1923, or that section as extended by this section, there shall be transferred to the holding so created all estates, interests, rights, burdens, charges, liabilities and equities which, at the date of the order of the Land Commission creating such holding, affected or attached to each holding so consolidated, and any purchase annuity, reclamation annuity or other payment so transferred shall be deemed to have been and shall be charged on and recoverable out of the consolidated holding in the same manner and in the same priority as such annuity or payment was previously charged on and recoverable out of part of the consolidated holding.
(3) On the application of the Land Commission, the Registrar of Titles shall register under the Registration of Title Acts, 1891 and 1942, the ownership of all land consolidated under this section and shall make such changes in the appropriate register as appear to him to be necessary.
Payment of purchase money or making of advance by means of land bonds.
26.—Notwithstanding section 4 of the Land Bond Act, 1934, or any order made thereunder, purchase money which is required by that Act to be paid, or an advance which is so required to be made, by means of an issue under that Act of land bonds may be paid or made as if the amount of the purchase money or advance had been agreed, or fixed, or deemed to be fixed, on the day on which the land or tenant's interest in a resumed holding vests in the Land Commission.
Powers conferred by section 40(6) of Land Act, 1923, not excepted matters.
27.—For the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that the determination of the land to be inspected under subsection (6) of section 40 of the Land Act, 1923, as amended by this Act, is not an excepted matter for the purposes of section 12 of the Land Act, 1950; provided that the Minister shall not authorise (pursuant to subsection (2) of section 12 of the Land Act, 1950) an officer to make such determination unless the officer is an officer of the Land Commission and not below the rank of Senior Inspector.
Amendment of section 15 of Land Act, 1923.
28.—(1) As soon as may be after the passing of this Act the investments and interest referred to in subsection (3) of section 15 of the Land Act, 1923, or such other investments or moneys as then represent the same, shall be transferred to such officer of Trinity College, Dublin, as shall be nominated for the purpose by the governing body of that College.
(2) Section 15 of the Land Act, 1923, is hereby amended—
(a) by the deletion in subsection (5) of “with the consent and approval of the Minister for Finance”, and
(b) by the deletion in subsection (6) of “with the consent of the Minister for Finance” and “and shall be approved of by the Minister for Finance”.
Amendment of section 40 of Land Act, 1923.
29.—Section 40 of the Land Act, 1923, is hereby amended by the substitution for “sent by post to” in subsection (6) of “sealed with the common seal of the Land Commission and served in the prescribed manner on”.
Amendment of section 46 of Land Act, 1923.
30.—Section 46 of the Land Act, 1923, is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (5) of the following subsections:
“(5A) For the purposes of such registrations, the Registrar of Titles may order any person having possession of the land certificate (in this section hereafter referred to as the old certificate) in respect of the original holding to deliver the old certificate to the Registrar of Titles or, where he is satisfied that the old certificate has been lost or destroyed, may dispense with the production of the old certificate.
(5B) Any claim of lien or other claims on the old certificate shall, as from the date of the registrations, be transferred to the land certificate in respect of the new holding and the priority of such claim or claims shall not be affected.
(5C) The land certificate in respect of the new holding shall be issued by the Registrar of Titles to the person who had possession of the old certificate immediately prior to its delivery to the Registrar of Titles or its loss or destruction.”
Amendment of section 18 of Land Act, 1927.
31.—Section 18 of the Land Act, 1927, is hereby amended—
(i) by the substitution for subsection (4) of the following subsection:
“(4) In every such case a sum equal to the difference between the amount for which the Land Commission or any persons in occupation of the land as allottees or purchasers from the Land Commission are made liable by subsection (1) of this section and the total amount which would but for the provisions of the said subsection have been legally recoverable from those persons in respect of rates and arrears of rates if proceedings for the recovery thereof had been instituted against such persons on the appointed day may be paid and discharged as a claim against the purchase money of the lands in priority to all other claims against the said purchase money.”, and
(ii) by the insertion after “‘the appointed day’” in subsection (5) of “and with the substitution of ‘as a claim attached to the resumption price of the holding’ for ‘as a claim against the purchase money of the lands.’”.
Amendment of sections 35 and 38 of Land Act, 1931.
32.—(1) Section 35 of the Land Act, 1931, is hereby amended—
(a) by the substitution of “one hundred pounds” for “thirty pounds” in each place where it occurs,
(b) by the substitution of “three hundred pounds” for “one hundred pounds” in each place where it occurs, and
(c) by the substitution of “two thousand pounds” for “three hundred pounds” in subsection (5).
(2) Section 38 of the Land Act, 1931, is hereby amended by the substitution of “two hundred pounds” for “fifty pounds” in subsection (2).
Amendment of section 39 of Land Act, 1931.
33.—Section 39 of the Land Act, 1931, is hereby amended—
(a) by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection:
“(2) The powers of the Land Commission to expend money on the improvement of land sold or agreed to be sold under the Land Purchase Acts
shall, in addition to the matters mentioned in section 43 of the Land Act, 1923, include power to confer on the Land Commission and their licensees and to define and extend or improve ways and rights of way over any land whatsoever for the purpose of facilitating passage to and from any land sold or agreed to be sold under the Land Purchase Acts, whether such rights of way are or are not so conferred as to be appurtenant to any land, and whether any terminal point of such ways and rights of way is or is not situate on lands sold or agreed to be sold under the Land Purchase Acts.”,
(b) by the insertion in subsection (3) after “confers and defines” of “or extends or improves”,
(c) by the insertion in subsection (3) after “is so conferred” of “, defined, extended or improved”,
(d) by the insertion in subsection (4) after “right of access conferred” of “or defined or extended or improved”, and
(e) by the substitution of “two hundred pounds” for “fifty pounds” in subsection (4).
Amendment of section 29 of Land Act, 1933.
34.—Section 29 of the Land Act, 1933, is hereby amended by the substitution of “£6,000” for “£2,000” in each place where it occurs in subsection (1), and the references in section 28 of the Land Act, 1936, to two thousand pounds shall be construed as references to six thousand pounds.
Amendment of section 32 of Land Act, 1933.
35.—(1) Section 32 of the Land Act, 1933, is hereby amended—
(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):
“(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section or in any other enactment, the Land Commission shall not acquire compulsorily for any purpose other than the relief of congestion in the immediate neighbourhood or the provision of sports fields, parks, pleasure-grounds or play-grounds, or the provision of gardens for schools, or (in the case only of land not situate within fifty yards of an occupied dwellinghouse which was in existence at the commencement of the qualifying period) the provision of facilities for persons boating or fishing on the sea or on a lake or river, any land in respect of which the Lay Commissioners are satisfied that—
(a) the tenant or proprietor of the land has not in the qualifying period offered it for sale, and
(b) any one of the following requirements which is applicable has been bona fide complied with—
(i) where a person other than a body corporate is the sole tenant or proprietor of the land—such person has throughout the whole of the qualifying period resided either on the land or in the immediate neighbourhood thereof;
(ii) where a body corporate is the sole tenant or proprietor of the land—each of the persons entitled to a beneficial interest in the body corporate has throughout the whole of the qualifying period resided either on the land or in the immediate neighbourhood thereof;
(iii) in any case not mentioned in subparagraph (i) or (ii) of this paragraph—all the persons entitled to a beneficial interest in any part of or share in the land and all the persons entitled to a beneficial interest in the body or bodies corporate, which is or are entitled to any part of or share in the land, have throughout the whole of the qualifying period resided either on the land or in the immediate neighbourhood thereof;
provided that the requirement in respect of residence shall in no case be satisfied or deemed to be satisfied by compliance with any statutory provision whatsoever relating to residence by a body corporate, and
(c) having regard to the area, situation and character of such land, the amount of congestion and unemployment existing in the immediate neighbourhood of such land and the country generally, and the desirability of increasing the production of food, such land, in the qualifying period, produced an adequate amount of agricultural products and provided an adequate amount of employment, reckoning in such employment any relatives of the tenant or proprietor of the land who are permanently employed thereon.”, and
(b) by the addition of the following subsection after subsection (4):
“(5) In this section—
‘immediate neighbourhood’ includes any place which the Lay Commissioners are satisfied is not more than three miles from the nearest point of the relevant land;
‘qualifying period’ means the period of one year ending on the date of the publication in the Iris Oifigiúil of the certificate and provisional list required by subsection (1) of section 25 of the Land Act, 1936, to be so published;
‘throughout the whole of the qualifying period resided’ shall be construed as requiring that the person or persons mentioned in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) (as the case may be) of paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of this section has or have ordinarily dwelt on or in the immediate neighbourhood of the land, provided that the Lay Commissioners may at their discretion disregard, for the purposes of this section, any temporary absence or absences from the land which they are satisfied is or are reasonably attributable to illness, business, education, vacation or any other cause;
‘tenant or proprietor’ includes the wife or husband of a tenant or proprietor.”.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, any proceedings pending at the passing of this Act in respect of land included in a provisional list under section 25 of the Land Act, 1936, published before the passing of this Act, shall be continued and concluded as if this section had not been enacted.
Amendment of section 44 of Land Act, 1933.
36.—Section 44 of the Land Act, 1933, is hereby amended by the substitution for “the sum of five hundred pounds” of “such sum as the Minister for Finance may, after consultation with the Minister, fix from time to time”.
Amendment of section 52 of Land Act, 1933.
37.—Section 52 of the Land Act, 1933, is hereby amended—
(a) by the substitution of “one hundred pounds” for “thirty pounds” in each place where it occurs, and
(b) by the substitution of “three hundred pounds” for “one hundred pounds” in each place where it occurs.
Amendment of section 38 of Land Act, 1936.
38.—Section 38 of the Land Act, 1936, is hereby amended by the substitution of “two years” for “seven years” in paragraph (c) of subsection (1).
Amendment of section 13 of Land Act, 1939.
39.—Section 13 of the Land Act, 1939, is hereby amended by the insertion in subsection (1) after paragraph (d) (inserted by section 13 of the Land Act, 1953) of—
“and
(e) any other moneys not mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of this subsection which are due and owing to the Land Commission by or on behalf of the former tenant or owner of the lands or rights so resumed, purchased or acquired in respect of the said lands or rights up to the date of the allocation of the purchase money or compensation as the case may be.”
Amendment of section 20 of Land Act, 1939.
40.—Section 20 of the Land Act, 1939, is hereby amended—
(a) by the substitution in subsection (1) for “has obtained possession of a holding or taken up from an allottee a parcel of land” of “have put up for sale by public auction a holding which they are entitled to cause to be sold and the holding has not been sold or have taken up from an allottee a parcel of land”, and
(b) by the substitution in subsection (1) for “with the consent of the Minister for Finance” of “within such limits as may from time to time be approved of by the Minister for Finance”.
Operation of orders under section 24 of Land Act, 1939.
41.—(1) An order of the Land Commission under section 24 of the Land Act, 1939 (as extended by section 25 of the Land Act, 1950, and as amended by section 23 of the Land Act, 1953) confirming a scheme under the said section 24 shall operate, and be deemed always to have operated, to confine—
(a) to each portion of the land allotted by such scheme, or
(b) to each right or rights in relation to the part or parts of the land specified in such scheme,
all estates, interests, burdens, charges, liabilities and equities which immediately before the making of the order affected the undivided share or undivided right or rights.
(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section are additional to, and not in substitution for, the provisions of subsection (5) of section 24 of the Land Act, 1939.
Amendment of section 39 of Land Act, 1939.
42.—(1) Section 39 of the Land Act, 1939, is hereby amended—
(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (6):
“(6) Where the Lay Commissioners are satisfied in respect of a holding that—
(a) the tenant has not, in the qualifying period, offered it for sale, and
(b) any one of the following requirements which is applicable has been bona fide complied with—
(i) where a person other than a body corporate is the sole tenant—such person has throughout the whole of the qualifying period resided either on the holding or in the immediate neighbourhood thereof;
(ii) where a body corporate is the sole tenant—each of the persons entitled to a beneficial interest in the body corporate has throughout the whole of the qualifying period resided either on the holding or in the immediate neighbourhood thereof;
(iii) in any case not mentioned in subparagraph (i) or (ii) of this paragraph—all the persons entitled to a beneficial interest in any part of or share in the holding and all the persons entitled to a beneficial interest in the body or bodies corporate, which is or are entitled to any part of or share in the holding, have throughout the whole of the qualifying period resided either on the holding or in the immediate neighbourhood thereof;
provided that the requirement in respect of residence shall in no case be satisfied or deemed to be satisfied by compliance with any statutory provision whatsoever relating to residence by a body corporate, and
(c) having regard to the area, situation and character of such holding, the amount of congestion and unemployment existing in the immediate neighbourhood of such holding and the country generally, and the desirability of increasing the production of food, an adequate amount of agricultural products was, during the qualifying period, produced on such holding and an adequate amount of employment (including in such amount the employment of any relatives of the tenant of such holding who were permanently employed thereon) was, during the qualifying period, provided on such holding, then and in such case the following provisions shall apply and have effect, that is to say:—
(A) notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section, the Land Commission shall not resume such holding or any part thereof for any purpose other than the relief of congestion in the immediate neighbourhood in which such holding is situate, or the provision of sports-fields, parks, pleasure-grounds, or playgrounds, or the provision of gardens for schools, or (in the case only of land not situate within fifty yards of an occupied dwellinghouse which was in existence at the commencement of the qualifying period) the provision of facilities for persons boating or fishing on the sea or on a lake or river;
(B) if—
(i) the Land Commission resumes such holding or a part thereof, and
(ii) the tenant of such holding or the wife or husband of such tenant resides on such holding or in the immediate neighbourhood thereof, and
(iii) neither such tenant nor such wife or husband is the owner of land (other than such holding or the part thereof resumed) the market value of which exceeds six thousand pounds, and
(iv) such tenant, within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner, requires the Land Commission, if part only of such holding has been resumed, to resume the whole of such holding and (whether such holding is resumed in whole or in part) to acquire all (if any) other land held or belonging to him in the immediate neighbourhood of such holding and, in any case, requires the Land Commission to provide him with a new holding, then and in such case the Land Commission shall comply with such requisition and shall provide such tenant with a new holding which the Lay Commissioners consider to be suitable for him and also consider (subject to a right of appeal to the Appeal Tribunal whose decision shall be final) to be of not less market value than the market value of the resumed holding and the other land (if any) acquired in pursuance of such requisition or the sum of six thousand pounds, whichever is the lesser;
(C) where the Land Commission provide such tenant with a new holding in pursuance of the next preceding paragraph of this subsection, the amount (if any) by which the resumption price of the resumed holding together with the price of the other land (if any) acquired from such tenant in pursuance of the said paragraph exceeds the market value of the said new holding so provided shall be payable in land bonds.”, and
(b) by the addition of the following subsection after subsection (8):
“(9) In this section—
‘qualifying period’ means the period of one year ending on the day on which notice is given under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section;
‘throughout the whole of the qualifying period resided’ shall be construed as requiring that the person or persons mentioned in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) (as the case may be) of paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of this section has or have ordinarily dwelt on or in the immediate neighbourhood of the land, provided that the Lay Commissioners may at their discretion disregard, for the purposes of this section, any temporary absence or absences from the land which they are satisfied is or are reasonably attributable to illness, business, education, vacation or any other cause;
‘tenant or proprietor’ includes the wife or husband of a tenant or proprietor;
‘immediate neighbourhood’ includes any place which the Lay Commissioners are satisfied is not more than three miles from the nearest point of the relevant holding.”
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, any proceedings pending at the passing of this Act for the resumption of a holding in respect of which notice under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 39 of the Land Act, 1939, has been given before the passing of this Act, shall be continued and concluded as if this section had not been enacted.
Amendment of section 43 of Land Act, 1939.
43.—Section 43 of the Land Act, 1939, is hereby amended—
(a) by the deletion in subsection (1) of “and of which the Land Commission have obtained or taken up possession”, and
(b) by the substitution in subsection (2) for “to the extent that may be approved of by the Minister for Finance” of “within such limits as may from time to time be approved of by the Minister for Finance”.
Amendment of section 28 of Land Act, 1950.
44.—Section 28 of the Land Act, 1950, is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (12):
“(12) Any land (being land comprising the whole or part of land in which the Land Commission have acquired an estate in fee simple by means of a purchase under section 27 of this Act or by means of a transfer order) may be disposed of by the Land Commission to any of the persons or bodies mentioned in subsection (1) of section 31 of the Land Act, 1923, as extended by subsection (6) of section 30 of this Act.”
Restriction on vesting of interests in land not situate in a county borough, borough, urban district or town.
45.—(1) In this section—
“land to which this section applies” means land not situate in a county borough, borough, urban district or town;
“interest”, in relation to land, includes—
(a) an estate,
(b) a leasehold interest or tenancy (including an interest under a grant for a term of years whether or not reserving a rent),
(c) an interest of a mortgagee (including an equitable mortgagee) or chargeant,
(d) an interest referable to a person's having contracted to buy, or having contracted to take a lease or tenancy,
(e) an interest referable to a right to become registered as owner of the land or of a charge thereon under the Registration of Title Acts, 1891 and 1942, or the Registration of Title Act, 1964,
(f) an interest consisting of the right to ratify a contract or other transaction conferred by subsection (1) of section 37 of the Companies Act, 1963,
(g) an interest referable to a possession,
and comprises equitable and beneficial interests as well as legal interests;
“qualified person” means a person who is in any of the following categories:
(i) an Irish citizen,
(ii) a person (other than a body corporate) who has been ordinarily resident in the State continuously during the seven years ending at the material time,
(iii) a person who is certified by the Minister for Industry and Commerce as having shown to the satisfaction of that Minister that he is acquiring the relevant interest exclusively for the purpose of an industry other than agriculture,
(iv) a local authority for the purposes of the Local Government Act, 1941,
(v) a body corporate which, by virtue of a licence issued under or having effect by virtue of the Companies Act, 1963, is registered under that Act without the addition of the word “limited” or the word “teoranta”,
(vi) a body corporate established by a Saorstát Éireann statute or an Act of the Oireachtas,
(vii) a body corporate incorporated in the State pursuant to a specific direction or authorisation contained in a Saorstát Éireann statute or an Act of the Oireachtas,
(viii) a bank named in the Third Schedule to the Central Bank Act, 1942,
(ix) a person who is certified by the Land Commission as having shown to their satisfaction that he is acquiring the relevant interest for private residential purposes where the land involved does not exceed five acres in extent,
(x) any category declared by the Minister by regulations to be an additional category for the purposes of this definition;
“State authority” means—
(a) a Minister of State,
(b) the Land Commission,
(c) the Revenue Commissioners,
(d) the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland;
any reference to the vesting of an interest shall, in the case of a contingent or executory interest or any other interest not vesting when created, be construed as referring solely to the creating of the interest.
(2) (a) Notwithstanding any other enactment or any rule of law, but subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection and to subsection (3) of this section, no interest in land to which this section applies shall become vested in a person who is not a qualified person except with the written consent (whether general or particular) of the Land Commission and subject to any conditions attached to the consent having been complied with, and the determination of the application for such consent shall be an excepted matter for the purposes of section 12 of the Land Act, 1950.
(b) Paragraph (a) of this subsection does not apply in a case in which an interest becomes vested—
(i) in a State authority,
(ii) in a person as legal personal representative of a deceased person, or
(iii) on the distribution of the estate of a deceased person if the interest becomes vested, in the case of an interest which is real estate, in the heir or a member of the family (not being the heir) of the deceased person or, in any other case, in a member of the family of the deceased person.
(c) In subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of this subsection “member of the family” means father, mother, step-father, step-mother, husband, wife, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, first cousin, son-in-law or daughter-in-law and, in the case of a female deceased person, her illegitimate child.
(d) In deducing any relationship for the purposes of this subsection, a person adopted under the Adoption Acts, 1952 and 1964, shall be considered the legitimate offspring of the adopter or adopters.
(3) (a) Subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection, an instrument by which an interest in land to which this section applies purports to become vested (being an instrument which, apart from this section, would effect such vesting) shall effect such vesting provided that it contains a certificate by the person in whom the interest is purported to be vested—
(i) that an appropriate consent has been given under this section and, if any conditions are attached to that consent, that they have been complied with, or
(ii) that the person who becomes entitled to the entire beneficial interest in the interest (or, where more than one person becomes entitled to a beneficial interest therein, each of them) is a qualified person by reference to a specified category of the definition of “qualified person” contained in subsection (1) of this section, or
(iii) that the instrument is consequent upon a contract entered into before the passing of this Act, or
(iv) if the instrument is relative to a case referred to in subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of this section, that the case is within that subparagraph,
notwithstanding any objection to the accuracy of such certificate.
(b) Paragraph (a) of this subsection does not apply to an instrument relative to a case referred to in paragraph (b) (other than subparagraph (iii) thereof) of subsection (2) of this section.
(4) (a) Where the Land Commission are of opinion that a person is not a qualified person and that he has after the passing of this Act come into possession, occupation or control of land to which this section applies otherwise than by reference to a consent under subsection (2) of this section, the Land Commission may, by notice in writing served in the prescribed manner on the person, require him to deliver to them before a specified date (not earlier than thirty days after the service of the notice) a statement in writing containing such particulars as may be specified in the notice in relation to his possession, occupation or control of the land, and the person shall comply with the requisition.
(b) In the foregoing paragraph “occupation” includes occupation by merely being present on the land and “control” includes indirect control.
(5) (a) Where, at a time when an interest in land to which this section applies stands vested in a body corporate, control of the body corporate becomes transferred to a person who is not a qualified person, the following provisions shall have effect:
(i) it shall be the duty of the body corporate to disclose such transfer to the Land Commission within one month from such transfer, and
(ii) if the Land Commission institute proceedings for the acquisition or resumption of the land or any part thereof, no restriction contained in subsection (3) of section 32 of the Land Act, 1933 (as amended by subsequent enactments, including this Act) or subsection (6) of section 39 of the Land Act, 1939 (as amended as aforesaid) shall apply.
(b) In paragraph (a) of this subsection “control”, in relation to a body corporate, means the power of a person to secure, by means of the holding of shares or the possession of voting power in or in relation to that or any other body corporate, or by virtue of any powers conferred by the articles of association or other document regulating that or any other body corporate, that the affairs of the first-mentioned body corporate are conducted in accordance with the wishes of that person.
(6) Where a person—
(a) makes any statement which to his knowledge is false or misleading—
(i) in connection with an application for a certificate under paragraph (iii) or (ix) of the definition of “qualified person” contained in subsection (1) of this section,
(ii) in connection with an application for a consent under subsection (2) of this section,
(iii) in a certificate under subsection (3) of this section, or
(iv) in reply to a requisition under this section, or,
(b) fails to comply with a requisition under this section, or
(c) fails to make a disclosure which he is required by this section to make,
he shall be guilty of an offence triable, at the election of the prosecution, either summarily or on indictment and shall be liable—
(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to both such fine and such imprisonment, or
(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding ten thousand pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(7) Where an offence under this section is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the authority, consent or approval of, or to have been facilitated by any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary, or other officer of the body corporate, he shall also be deemed to have committed the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(8) (a) In a prosecution for an offence under this section relating to a certificate under subsection (3) of this section, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is shown by the defendant—
(i) if the certificate is pursuant to subparagraph, (i) of paragraph (a) of that subsection and the statement is with respect to the giving of an appropriate consent—that, such a consent was not given,
(ii) if the certificate is pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of that paragraph—that the person who became entitled to the entire beneficial interest in the interest (or, where more than one person became entitled to a beneficial interest therein, each of them) was not a qualified person by reference to the category specified for him,
(iii) if the certificate is pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of that paragraph—that the instrument was not consequent upon a contract entered into before the passing of this Act, and
(iv) if the certificate is pursuant to subparagraph (iv) of that paragraph—that the case was not within subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of this section.
(b) In a prosecution for an offence under this section relating to a disclosure required by subsection (5) of this section, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is shown by the defendant, that the transferee was not a qualified person.
(c) In a prosecution for an offence under this section relating to a requisition under subsection (4) of this section, evidence that the Land Commission were of the opinion specified in that subsection may be given by production of a certificate under the seal of the Land Commission certifying that they were of that opinion.
(9) (a) A consent by the Land Commission for the purposes of this section may be given retrospectively and, if so given, shall have effect accordingly.
(b) Evidence of a consent of the Land Commission for the purposes of this section may be given in any legal proceedings by production of a certificate under the seal of the Land Commission certifying that they have given such consent.
(c) Where a consent is given by virtue of paragraph (a) of this subsection after the execution of the relevant instrument, the apropriate certificate under paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of this section shall be deemed to be contained in the instrument.
(10) Every stipulation in a contract whereby it is sought to preclude the making of requisitions in relation to a consent by the Land Commission for the purposes of this section shall be null and void.
(11) Notwithstanding subsection (4) of section 10 of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, summary proceedings for an offence under this section may be instituted within three years from the date of the offence.
(12) The provisions of this section providing for restriction on vesting of interests in land to which this section applies shall be deemed to be included in the restrictive provisions to which subsection (1) of section 38 of the Registration of Title Act, 1891, and subsection (1) of section 59 of the Registration of Title Act, 1964, apply.
(13) Every regulation made under paragraph (x) of the definition of “qualified person” contained in subsection (1) of this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made.
Amendment of section 17 of Land Act, 1953.
46.—Section 17 of the Land Act, 1953, is hereby amended by the insertion, after “registered owners” in subsection (2), of “or have become entitled to be registered as owners”.
Repeals.
47.—The enactments mentioned in the First Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column.
Short title, construction and citation.
48.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Land Act, 1965.
(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the Land Purchase Acts and may be cited with those Acts.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
Session and Chapter or Number and Year | Short Title | Extent of Repeal |
33 & 34 Vict. c.46. | The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870. | Section 44, from “No purchaser,” to the end of the section. |
44 & 45 Vict. c.49. | Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881. | Section 30. |
3 Edw. 7. c.37. | Irish Land Act, 1903. | Section 54. |
9 Edw. 7. c.42. | Irish Land Act, 1909. | Section 32. |
9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 82. | Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act, 1919. | Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 2. |
No. 42 of 1923. | Paragraph (c) of subsection (6) of section 46; subsection (7) of section 46; subsections (1) and (2) of section 65. | |
No. 19 of 1927. | Subsections (1) and (3) of section 3; subsections (1) and (2) of section 4; section 5. | |
No. 41 of 1936. | ||
No. 16 of 1950. | Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 27. | |
No. 18 of 1953. | Subsection (1) of section 15; subsection (3) of section 17. |
SECOND SCHEDULE.
Donegal
Galway
Kerry
Leitrim
Mayo
Roscommon
Sligo
The portion of the County of Clare comprising the former rural districts of Ballyvaughan, Ennistymon, Kilrush, Scariff, Tulla and Killadysert.
The portion of West Cork comprising the former rural districts of Bantry, Castletown Schull and Skibbereen.