Mines and Minerals Act, 1931
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Amendment of section 13 of the Irish Land Act, 1903, and consequential repeals. |
2.—(1) Sub-section (3) of section 13 of the Irish Land Act, 1903 shall be construed and have effect— | |
(a) as if in lieu of enacting that on the sale under the Land Purchase Acts of any land by the Irish Land Commission or of any land comprised in an estate by the owner of the estate, there shall be reserved in the prescribed manner to the Irish Land Commission the exclusive right of mining and taking minerals and digging and searching for minerals, on or under that land, it enacted that on any such sale there shall be vested in Saorstát Eireann such exclusive right, and | ||
(b) as if the words “and the said right shall be disposed of by the Commission in manner hereafter to be provided by Parliament” now contained therein were deleted therefrom. | ||
(2) The following enactments that is to say:— | ||
(a) the second proviso to sub-section (3) of section 13 of the Irish Land Act, 1903 ; | ||
(b) sub-section (4) of the said section 13 (so far only as relates to the exclusive right of mining and taking minerals); | ||
(c) section 1 of the Irish Land Act, 1907 ; and | ||
(d) section 37 of the Irish Land Act, 1909 ; | ||
shall cease to have effect, but shall continue to apply to any letting, lease, sale, or demise of any such exclusive right of mining and taking minerals made by the Irish Land Commission before the passing of this Act under the said section 1 of the Irish Land Act, 1907 as amended by the said section 37 of the Irish Land Act, 1909 . |