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Commissioners may relieve Tenants from Forfeiture by reason of Non-compliance with their Covenants to insure Buildings in Names of the Commissioners for the Time being;
and may designate in Writing any Persons in whose Names such Insurance is to be made instead of the Names of the Commissioners;
or any such Insurance may be made in Name of Commissioners of Woods, &c. as if they were a Corporation, or jointly in such Name
and the Names of any other Persons;
and such an Insurance shall be deemed a Compliance with the Covenant.
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VIII. ‘And whereas in many of the Lenses of Crown Lands there is contained a Covenant on the Part of the Lessee to insure the Buildings therein against Fire in the Names of the Commissioners for the Time being of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, and in many Cases such Covenants have not been strictly observed, by reason of the Changes of the said Commissioners, or otherwise; and it is expedient that the Lessees should be relieved from the Forfeiture incurred by such Non-observance of Covenants, and that some Provision should be made for facilitating the due Observance thereof in future;’ be it enacted, That where in any Lease heretofore made, or which shall at any Time hereafter be made, in pursuance of the Powers in the said Act of the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth or in this Act contained, there shall be contained a Covenant on the Part of the Lessee to insure against Fire the Buildings erected, or the Hereditaments therein comprised, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings for the Time being, or any Two of them, at their Discretion, to release by Licence or Waiver, as herein-before is provided, the Tenant or Lessee from any such Covenant, whether Default has been made in the same or not, or for any particular Breach thereof; and where any such Insurance is covenanted to be made in the Names of the said Commissioners of Her Majesty-s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings for the Time being, or in the joint Names of the same Commissioners and any other Person or Persons, or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners for the Time being, or any Two of them, at their Discretion, to designate in Writing any Person or Persons in whose Name or Names such Insurance is to be made in lieu of the Names of the said Commissioners for the Time being; and the Name or Names of such Person or Persons shall be in all respects equivalent to the Names of the said Commissioners for the Time being, for the Purposes of any such Insurance and Covenant, and shall so continue until such Designation as aforesaid shall be revoked in Writing, and a new Person or Persons appointed for the Purposes aforesaid by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings for the Time being, or any Two of them; or any such Insurance may be made in the Name of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, as if they were a Corporation, or jointly in such Name, and in the Name or Names of any other Person or Persons; and the Commissioners aforesaid, from Time to Time, by the Name of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, alone or jointly with any other Person or Persons, as the Case may be, shall sue and recover and receive under any Policy so effected as aforesaid, in all respects by such Name as aforesaid, and as if they were incorporated by such Name; and any Insurance made in the Name or Names of the Person or Persons so nominated as aforesaid, either solely or jointly with any other Person or Persons (as the Case may be), or in the Name of the said Commissioners as aforesaid, and either jointly or solely as aforesaid, and as the said Commissioners for the Time being, or any Two of them, shall direct, shall be and be deemed to all Intents und Purposes a Compliance with and Performance of any Covenant already entered into, or hereafter to be entered into, to insure in the Names of the said Commissioners for the Time being, either solely or jointly with any other Person or Persons, or otherwise.
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