Crown Lands Act 1894

1894 CHAPTER 43 57 and 58 Vict

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Management of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown.

[25th August 1894]

1—5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 1–5, 7–13 repealed by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 3 Pt. II.

6 New lease to operate as surrender of old lease. U.K.

Where any person, in whom property belonging to the Crown is vested under a lease, accepts a new lease of the property, either to begin presently or at any time during the continuance of the existing lease, the acceptance of the new lease shall, as from the commencement of the term of the new lease, but subject to anything to the contrary expressed in the new lease, operate as a surrender of the existing lease as to so much of the property demised thereby as is demised by the new lease, but without prejudice to any rights or liabilities existing at the date of the surrender.

7—13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F2 Ss. 1–5, 7–13 repealed by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 3 Pt. II.

14 Short title U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F3 S. 14 repealed by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 3 Pt. II. The text of s. 14 reads “This Act may be cited as the Crown Lands Act 1894 and shall be read with the Crown Lands Acts 1829 to 1885.”