Duchy of Cornwall Management Act 1863

35 Proviso as to Grants of Licences to demise.

And whereas by the Twenty-fifth Section of the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-five, Power is given to His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, His Heirs and Successors, to grant Licences to Copyhold or Customary Tenants within any Manors Parcel of the Possessions of the Duchy of Cornwall to improve their Tenements and demise the same in manner therein mentioned, and by the Twenty-seventh Section of the same Act it is enacted, amongst other things, that no Grant shall be made under the Powers of that Act without such Sanction and Approval on the Part of the Treasury as therein mentioned: Be it declared and enacted, That all Licences by the Twenty-fifth Section of the said Act of the Seventh-and Eighth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-five, authorized to be granted, may be made and granted by the Steward of the Manor of which the Premises to which the same shall relate are Parcel, in such Manner as any Licence to demise may by the Custom of such Manor be made or granted ; and that the Power thereby given is not intended to diminish or prejudicially affect the Power of granting Licences previously sanctioned by the Usage or Custom of the Manor, and that the Word "Grant" contained in the Twenty-seventh Section of the same Act is not intended to apply to the Grant of any Licence granted under the Authority of that Act.