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MILITARY LANDS ACT 1903

MILITARY LANDS ACT 1903 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Military Lands Acts, 1892 to 1900, with
respect to the acquisition of Land for Military Purposes.
[14th August 1903]
Power of councils to hire land for military purposes.

MILITARY LANDS ACT 1903 - SECT 1

1.(1) The council of a county or borough may, at the request of
one or more volunteer corps, by agreement hire land on behalf of
the volunteer corps for military purposes, for a period not less
than twenty-one years, and may contribute towards the expenses
incurred by another council in purchasing or hiring land for those
purposes, and the expenses of so hiring or contributing may be
defrayed in the same manner as expenses of purchasing, and the
payment of those expenses, so far as they are in the nature of
capital expenses, shall accordingly be a purpose for which the
council may borrow.

(2) Land hired under this section, on behalf of one or more
volunteer corps, may be leased to the volunteer corps in like
manner as land held by the council of a county or borough under
subsection three of section one of the Military Lands Act, 1892,
and section one of the Military Lands Act, 1900, shall apply
accordingly.

(3) Sections ten and eleven of the Military Lands Act, 1892, shall
apply to leases of land to councils hiring land under this section,
as they apply to leases of land to a Secretary of State or a
volunteer corps.

MILITARY LANDS ACT 1903 - SECT 2
Short title and construction.

2. This Act may be cited as the Military Lands Act, 1903, and
shall be construed as one with the Military Lands Acts, 1892 to
1900, and those Acts and this Act may be cited as the Military
Lands Acts, 1892 to 1903.