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Crown Lands Act 1894

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Contents: 5 provisions
  1. Title and introductory text
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  3. 6 New lease to operate as surrender of old lease.
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  5. 14 Short title

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5 provisions

Title and introductory text

Crown Lands Act 1894 1894 c.43 An Act to amend the Law relating to the Management of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown. [25th August 1894]

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6 New lease to operate as surrender of old lease.

Where any person, in whom property belonging to the Crown is vested under a lease, accepts a new lease of the property, either to begin presently or at any time during the continuance of the existing lease, the acceptance of the new lease shall, as from the commencement of the term of the new lease, but subject to anything to the contrary expressed in the new lease, operate as a surrender of the existing lease as to so much of the property demised thereby as is demised by the new lease, but without prejudice to any rights or liabilities existing at the date of the surrender.

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14 Short title

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