Leases for Mills (Ireland) Act 1851

The Leases for Mills (Ireland) Act 1851 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act extended the powers of various members of the clergy and landowners to authorise and lease their land to build watermills to Ireland, which was previously omitted. The act received Royal Assent on 11 April 1851.[2]

Leases for Mills (Ireland) Act 1851
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Long titleAn Act to amend an Act of Parliament of Ireland of the Twenty-fifth Year of King George the Third, for explaining and amending several Laws for the Encouragement of Agriculture, so far as relates to Leases for the Erection of Mills
Citation14 Vict. c.7
Territorial extentIreland
Dates
Royal assent11 April 1851
Repealed21st July 2009[1]
Other legislation
Repealed byLand and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009
Status: Repealed

Provisions

The provisions of the act include:

  • Extending the powers conferred in the Exportation Act 1785 to Ireland.[2]
    • Powers were given to bishops and members of the clergy, governors and fellows of hospitals or colleges, and anyone "in possession in Law or Equity of an Estate in Fee Tail or ... in trust" to lease their land to others for the building of mills or associated infrastructure.[2]

Repeal

All parts of the Act still in effect were repealed by the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 of the Irish Parliament.[3]

References
  1. "LAND AND CONVEYANCING LAW REFORM ACT 2009". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  2. A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the Fouth Session of the Fifteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1864. p. 83.
  3. "Land And Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 17 February 2020.


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