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Universities and College Estates Act 1925

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Contents: 48 provisions
  1. Title and introductory text
  2. 1 Universities and Colleges to which the Act applies.
  3. 1A General power over land
  4. 2 Powers of sale and exchange.
  5. 3 Regulations respecting sales.
  6. 4 Regulations respecting exchanges.
  7. 5 Payment to Minister of money payable on sale or exchange.
  8. 6 Powers to lease for building or mining or ordinary purposes.
  9. 7 Regulations respecting leases generally.
  10. 8 Leasing powers for special objects.
  11. 9 Regulations respecting building leases.
  12. 10 Regulations respecting mining leases.
  13. 11 Variation of building or mining lease according to circumstances of district.
  14. 12 Application of mineral rents, &c.
  15. 13 Surrenders and regrants.
  16. 14 Power to grant water rights to statutory bodies.
  17. 15 Power to grant land for public and charitable purposes.
  18. 16 Dedication for streets, open spaces, &c.
  19. 17 Power to compromise claims and release restrictions, &c.
  20. 18 Power to vary leases and grants.
  21. 19 Power to apportion rents.
  22. 20 Provisions as to consideration.
  23. 21 General power to effect any transaction under an order of the Minister.
  24. 22 Separate dealing with surface and minerals, with or without wayleaves, &c.
  25. 23 Power to grant options.
  26. 24 Power to enter into contracts.
  27. 25 Exercise of powers; limitation of provisions, &c.
  28. 26 Modes of investment or application of capital money.
  29. 27 Provisions as to money in court.
  30. 28 Provision as to money payable into court or to trustees.
  31. 29 Application of money paid for lease or reversion.
  32. 30 Power to raise money with consent of the Minister for improvements.
  33. 31 Power to raise money by way of compensation for loss of fines on non-renewal of leases.
  34. 32 Provision for the discharge of money borrowed on mortgage.
  35. 33 Power to sell advowsons, &c.
  36. 34 Power to purchase advowsons, &c.
  37. 35 Power to substitute lands, &c. for rents, &c. as endowments of benefices.
  38. 36 Severances of benefices from headships of colleges.
  39. 37 Power to transfer advowsons, &c. gratuitously.
  40. 38 Provisions as to consents by Minister.
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  42. 40 Power to transfer to the university or college lands vested in individual members thereof.
  43. 41 Land to which Act applies and mode of exercise of powers.
  44. 42 Saving of existing powers.
  45. 43 Definitions.
  46. 44 Repeals.
  47. 45 Short title.
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40 Power to transfer to the university or college lands vested in individual members thereof.

When any lands are vested in any person being a member of a university or college in trust or for the benefit of the university or college, or the head or any other member thereof, it shall be lawful for such person ... to convey and transfer such lands in such manner as that the same may be vested in the university or college in its corporate capacity, upon the trusts nevertheless affecting the same lands respectively.

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41 Land to which Act applies and mode of exercise of powers.

(1) The powers and provisions of this Act relating to land belonging to a university or college shall extend and be applicable not only to land vested in the university or college, or in any body constituted for holding land belonging to the university or college, and held as the property or for the general purposes of the university or college, but also to land so vested which may be held upon any trusts, or for any special endowment or other purposes, connected with the university or college. (2) The power conferred by this Act on a university or college may as respects each particular university or college be exercised by such body and in such manner as may be provided by the statutes regulating that university or college.

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42 Saving of existing powers.

Nothing in this Act contained shall restrain a university or college, or other body constituted for holding land belonging to a university or college, from exercising any powers of sale, exchange, purchase, or borrowing, or from granting any leases or making any grants, whether by way of renewal or otherwise, which the university or college might have exercised or granted under the provisions of any Act of Parliament, whether public general or local or private, or under any other authority, or in any other manner whatsoever, in case this Act had not been passed...

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43 Definitions.

In this Act ...:— (i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (iii) “Hereditaments” mean real property which on an intestacy might before the commencement of the Law of Property Act 1922, have devolved on an heir; (iv) “Land” includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether the division is horizontal, vertical or otherwise) and all other corporeal hereditaments; also a manor, an advowson, and a rent and all other incorporeal hereditaments, and an easement, right, privilege, or benefit in, over, or derived from land , but not an undivided share in land; (v) “Lease” includes an agreement for a lease; (vi) “Manor” includes lordship, and reputed manor or lordship; and “manorial incidents” has the same meaning as in the Law of Property Act 1922; (vii) “Mines and minerals” mean mines and minerals whether already opened or in work or not, and include all minerals and substances in, on, or under the land, obtainable by underground or by surface working; and “mining purposes” include the sinking and searching for, winning, working, getting, making merchantable, smelting or otherwise converting or working for the purposes of any manufacture, carrying away, and disposing of mines and minerals, in or under any land, and the erection of buildings, and the execution of engineering and other works suitable for those purposes; and a “mining lease” is a lease for any mining purposes or purposes connected therewith, and includes a grant or licence for any mining purposes; (viii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (ix) “Rent” includes yearly or other rent, and toll, duty, royalty, or other reservation, by the acre, or the ton, or otherwise; and, in relation to rent, “payment” includes delivery; and “fine” includes premium or fore-gift, and any payment, consideration, or benefit in the nature of a fine, premium, or fore-gift; (x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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44 Repeals.

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nothing in this repeal shall affect the validity of anything done before the commencement of this Act, or shall affect any consent, order, authority, or direction given under any enactment so repealed; but any such consent, order, authority, or direction shall have effect as if made under the corresponding provisions of this Act. (2) References in any document to any enactment repealed by this Act shall be construed as references to this Act or the corresponding provisions of this Act.

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45 Short title.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Universities and College Estates Act 1925. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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