Leasing Powers for Religious Worship in Ireland Act, 1855

Power to make Leases of Land of not more than Five Acres for religious Purposes.

III. Every Person herein-after described entitled in possession to any Estate or Interest herein-after named in Lands in Ireland, or to the Receipt of any Rents and Profits thereof, whether or not such Estate shall be subject to any Mortgage or other Incumbrance (provided the Incumbrancer shall not be in possession), shall have Power to make Leases of any Part of the said Lands, (other than the Mansion House and Demesne Lands or Parks, Plantations, Gardens, Orchards, or Pleasure Grounds and Appurtenances belonging to or usually occupied with such Mansion House,) and not exceeding in the whole Five Acres, for the Purposes and Periods of Time, and subject to the Rents, Rights of Apportionment of Rent, Covenants, and Conditions herein stated; (that is to say,)

(1.) Her Majesty the Queen and Her Successors; the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods and Forests in respect of Lands situate in the Kingdom of Ireland:

(2.) Tenants in Fee Simple or Fee Farm or seised of any other perpetual Estate subject to any Mortgage or Incumbrance:

(3.) Tenants in Tail or Quasi-Entail of an Estate of Inheritance or perpetual Interest:

(4.) Tenants for the Term of their own Lives, not being Jointresses, or for the Life or Lives of any other Person or Persons, or for so many Years as they may live, or any partial Owner, for an unexpired Term of Years not being less than Sixty Years in its Inception, and whether absolute

or determinable on a Life created out of an Estate of Inheritance or perpetual Interest by any Settlement, and not in consideration of or subject to any Rent reserved thereby:

(5.) Married Women entitled to any Estate specified in Numbers (2.), (3.), or (4.), for their separate Use, and whether restrained or not from Anticipation:

(6.) Tenants by the Courtesy of England:

(7.) Husbands seised in right of their Wives, or by Entireties with their Wives, provided that the Wife is entitled to any such Estate as is specified in Number (2.), but whether subject to any Incumbrance or not, or in Numbers (3.) or (4.), and shall be a consenting and executing Party to the Lease, not being under Age:

(9.) Corporations Lay, Eleemosynary, and Collegiate, whether aggregate or sole: Provided, that no Lease made by any Municipal Corporation or Board of Guardians of the Poor shall be valid without the Licence in Writing in the Case of a Municipal Corporation of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and in the Case of such Board of Guardians of the Poor of the Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland, such Licence to be written on or annexed to the said Lease:

(10.) Trustees and Feoffees of charitable Uses of a public Nature, and seised or possessed of an Estate in Fee Simple, Fee Farm, or other perpetual Interest:

(11.) Trustees under any Will or Settlement entitled in Fee Simple or for a perpetual Interest or to any Estate specified in Number (4.), and having a Power to sell the same: Provided, however, that when such Power is to be exercised with the Consent of any Person no such Lease shall be valid without such Consent.

And with respect to Cases of Disability of Parties otherwise entitled to make Leases: