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The Transfer of Defence Lands Ordinance, 1961
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No. 8 1961
Sierra Leone
An Ordinance to transfer to and vest in the Government of Sierra
Leone all Lands in the Colony at present Vested in or held by the
Admiralty, the Air ministry and the War Department.
(2nd April, 1961)
WHEREAS it has been agreed that certain lands now vested in
or held by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Secretary
of State for Air and the Secretary of State for War should be transferred
to the Government subject to certain reservations as to easements
and other rights and interests in or in respect of such lands:
Date of commencement.
In Her Majesty’s name I assent to this Ordinance this 20th day of
April, 1961.
MAURICE H. DORMAN,
Governor.
LS
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AND WHEREAS it is expedient to confirm the said agreement
and accordingly to make provision for vesting, subject to such
reservation as aforesaid, the aforementioned lands in the Government
and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Legislature of Sierra Leone, as
follows–
Lands Ordinance, 1961, and shall come into operation on the 2nd day
of April, 1961.
“land” includes leaseholds the reversion on which is
vested in the Government, land covered by water,
any building or structure erected on land, and any
interest, right or easement in or over any land and
“lands” shall be construed accordingly;
“the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty” mean
the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord
High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland;
“the scheduled Defence lands” means the lands (being
lands now vested in or held by the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Secretary of
State for Air and the Secretary of State for War
respectively) described in the Schedule;
“the Secretary of State for Air” means Her Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for the Air Ministry of
the United Kingdom;
“the Secretary of State for War” means Her Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for the War Department
of the United Kingdom.
(1) Subject as hereinafter provided, as from the secondday of April, 1961, the scheduled Defence lands shall be transferred
to and vest absolutely in the Government.
(2) Subject as hereinafter provided, every person having
or claiming any right, title, estate or interest, use or trust whatsoever
in or to or out of the scheduled Defence lands shall, as from the date
of the vesting of the said lands in the Government, be forever barred
of all such right, title, estate, interest, use or trust notwithstanding
any provision of law, usage, matter or thing to the contrary.
Notwithstanding anything in the provisions of section 3,any estate or interest (including any right, easement, restrictive
covenant and rights in relation to machinery, plant, apparatus and
things) held or enjoyed by any person in or in respect of any part of
the scheduled Defence lands immediately before the vesting of such
lands in the Government in so far as such estate or interest was
granted or knowingly suffered by the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, the Secretary of State for Air or the Secretary of State for
War before such vesting or was expressly reserved by any instrument
to which the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Secretary of
State for Air or the Secretary of State for War were a party or out of
any conveyance or other instrument under which the land was
acquired by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the Secretary
of State for Air or the Secretary of State for War shall not be
extinguished or affected by such vesting but shall subsist and continue
and may be held or enjoyed to the same extent that such estate or
interest would have subsisted and continued, and might have been
held or enjoyed, had this Ordinance not been passed.
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Short title and
commencement
Interpretation.
Transfer to
and vesting of
scheduled
Defence lands
in the
Government
subject to
reservations.
Saving for
certain rights
enjoyed in
scheduled
Defence lands
immediately
before vesting
in the
Government.
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DESCRIPTION OF DEFENCE LANDS TO BE VESTED IN
THE GOVERNMENT
ALL THOSE LANDS in the Colony which immediately before the
commencement of this Ordinance were vested in or held by the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, the Secretary of State for Air or the Secretary of State for War, as
shown (for the purpose of identification only) in a book of plans numbered
respectively SLS 80/61A, SLS 80/61B, SLS 80/61C, SLS 80/61D, SLS 80/61E, SLS 80/
61F, SLS 80/61G, SLS 80/61H and deposited in the office of the Director of Surveys
and Lands therein coloured green.
Passed in the House of Representatives this 29th day of March, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one.
S. V. WRIGHT,
Clerk of the House of Representatives.
T HIS P RINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill
which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be a true and
correct copy of the said Bill.
S. V. WRIGHT,
Clerk of the House of Representatives.
M.P. SM/86A
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