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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH STATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1931

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH STATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1931 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to confirm and give effect to an agreement relating to the
Agricultural Research Station for Northern Ireland.
[22nd December 1931]
WHEREAS an agreement dated the second day of December, nineteen
hundred and thirty, was made between the Ministry of Finance of the
first part, the Ministry of Agriculture of the second part and the
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland (in this Act
referred to as "the Institute") of the third part, supplemental to
an indenture (in this Act referred to as "the principal indenture")
dated the twenty-eighth day of October, nineteen hundred and
twenty-six, and made between the Ministry of Finance of the first
part, the Ministry of Agriculture of the second part and James
Scott Gordon, James Pimlott, Josias Cunningham, George Scott
Robertson, Robert Rae, William Robert Morrow, Alexander John McDonnell
Pilkington, John Martin Mark and Harold Adrian Milne Barbour of the
third part, which said agreement is set forth in the Schedule to
this Act, and is in this Act referred to as "the scheduled
agreement":

And whereas by the scheduled agreement it was agreed that the
principal indenture should be varied so as to permit the Institute
to use and occupy another part of the lands referred to in the
scheduled agreement as "the Great Park" in place of part of the
lands which the Institute was permitted to use and occupy under the
principal indenture:

And whereas the provisions of the scheduled agreement cannot take
effect without the authority of Parliament:

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH STATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1931 - SECT 1
Confirmation of agreement and exemption of agreement from stamp duty.

1.(1) The scheduled agreement is hereby confirmed and shall have
effect as if enacted in this Act.

(2) No stamp duty shall be charged on the scheduled agreement.

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH STATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1931 - SECT 2
Short title, construction and citation.

2. This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Research Station Act
(Northern Ireland), 1931, and shall be construed as one with the
Agricultural Research Station Act (Northern Ireland), 1927, and that
Act and this Act may be cited together as the Agricultural Research
Station Acts (Northern Ireland), 1927 and 1931.

The Schedule sets out the terms of the Agreement dated 2nd December
1930 between the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture
and the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland whereby
the Institute surrendered to the Ministry of Finance an area of
some 9 acres forming part of the Great Park, Hillsborough, County
Down which it was entitled to use and occupy under the terms of
an Agreement dated 28th October 1926 between the same parties (see
1927 c.1 (NI)). The Ministry of Finance agreed to permit the
Institute to use and occupy another area of some 15 acres of the
Great Park and also agreed that the Ministry might from time to
time after consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture permit the
Institute to use and occupy a further limited area of the Great
Park.