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Military Lands Act 1892
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8 Provision as to disbandment of corps, &c.U.K.
(1)If a volunteer corps holding land under this Act is disbanded, the land shall, by virtue and subject to the provisions of this section, vest in the Secretary of State from the date of this disbandment, subject to the repayment of any money borrowed for the purchase of the land, and not already repaid, and the sums required for such repayment shall, if and so far as not provided by the sale of the land, be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament for Army services.
(2)A certificate of the Secretary of State that land has vested in him under this section shall be conclusive evidence of the fact certified.
[F1(3)If the volunteer corps on whose behalf land is acquired under this Act by a county or borough council is disbanded, the council may either appropriate the land to any purpose approved by the Local Government Board, or sell it for the best price that can be reasonably obtained, and any money arising from the sale shall be applied towards repaying any money borrowed for the purchase of the land, and so far as not required for that purpose shall be applied to any purpose to which capital moneys are properly applicable, and which is approved by the Local Government Board.
[F2Provided that before so appropriating any such land or before selling any such land, if it is not so appropriated, the council shall offer to sell the same to the person then entitled to the land (if any) from which the same was originally severed, and thereupon sections one hundred and twenty-nine to one hundred and thirty-two, both inclusive, of the M1Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall apply as if the land were superfluous land and the council were the promoters of the undertaking within the meaning of those sections.]]
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F1S. 8(3) repealed (E.W.) by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 194(1)(2), Sch. 11 para. 1, Sch. 12 Pt. I
F2Proviso repealed (E.W.S.) by Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 (c. 49), Sch. 6
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