Common lands E+W+N.I.

107 Upon payment of compensation payable to commoners, the lands to vest. E+W+N.I.

Upon payment or tender to such committee, or any three of them, or if there shall be no such committee then upon [F1 payment into the [F2 Senior Courts]] of the compensation which shall have been agreed upon or determined in respect of such commonable or other rights, it shall be lawful for the promoters of the undertaking, if they think fit, to execute a deed poll, duly stamped, in the manner herein-before provided in the case of the purchase of lands by them, and thereupon the lands in respect of which such compensation shall have been so paid . . . F3 shall vest in the promoters of the undertaking freed and discharged from all such commonable or other rights, and they shall be entitled to immediate possession thereof; and it shall be lawful for the Court of Chancery, . . . F4 to order payment of the money [F1 so paid into the [F2 Senior Courts]] to a committee to be appointed as aforesaid, or to make such other order in respect thereto, for the benefit of the parties interested, as it shall think fit.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1965 (c. 2), S. 17, Sch. 1

F2 Words in Act (except s. 3) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 9(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)

F3 Words repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1965 (c. 2), s. 17, Sch. 1

F4 Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19), and Administration of Justice Act 1965 (c. 2), s. 17, Sch. 1

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 107 restricted by Commons Act 1899 (c. 30), s. 22, Sch. 1; incorporated by New Parishes Measure 1943 (No. 1), s. 15(2); applied with modifications by Towyn Trewan Common Act 1963 (c. 4), s. 3(2)

C2 Ss. 99, 100, 107, 109, 111, 113, 117 modified by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23, SIF 38), s. 122(1), Sch. 5 Pt. II (as amended (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d))

C3 Ss. 99-107 incorporated (E.) (1.3.2019) by Church Property Measure 2018 (No. 8), ss. 30(5), 53(2); S.I. 2019/97, art. 2