Crown Lands Act 1845

Commissioners may accept a Surrender of any Lease, and grant separate Leases of the Hereditaments so surrendered, and apportion the Rent reserved by the surrendered Lease;

VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings for the Time being, in the Execution of the Powers contained in the said Act passed in the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth, to accept a Surrender of any Lease of any of the Possessions or Land Revenues of the Crown, and to grant separate Leases of the Hereditaments so surrendered, for the Residue of the Term for which such surrendered Hereditaments were held, and to apportion the Rent reserved in or by any such surrendered Lease, as they shall think fit; and any Leases which may heretofore have been made on any such Surrender as aforesaid, and which might have been made if this Act had passed, are (so far as relates to any Question as to the Validity of any such Surrender and Re-grant) hereby confirmed.