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UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGIATE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1938

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGIATE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1938 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision for the payment of an additional grant to
the Queen's University of Belfast and grants to the Magee University
College, Londonderry, and the Armagh Observatory, and for the
appointment of additional members on the governing bodies of the
said College and Observatory; to provide that the governing body of
the said Observatory may be authorised to sell and let lands; and
for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[24th November 1938]
Queen's University of BelfastAdditional grant for general purposes of
Queen's University.

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGIATE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1938 - SECT 1

1. There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament to the
governing body of the Queen's University of Belfast, for the general
purposes of the said University, in respect of each financial year
a sum of twenty thousand pounds, and the said sums shall be in
addition to the sums payable out of moneys so provided to the said
University under section one of the Queen's University of Belfast
Act (Northern Ireland), 1928, and the enactments mentioned in that
section.

S.2 rep. by 1970 c.15 (NI) s.11 sch.3. Ss.3,4 rep. by 1953 c.i
(NI) s.77

Grants for Armagh Observatory.

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGIATE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1938 - SECT 5

5. There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament to the
governors of the Armagh Observatory, for the purposes of the Armagh
Observatory and Museum Act, 1791, such sums as the [Department of
Education] may from time to time determine to be necessary for the
said purposes.

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGIATE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1938 - SECT 6
Additional governors of the Observatory.

6. The following persons shall be members of the corporation created
by section two of the Armagh Observatory and Museum Act, 1791, as
governors of the Armagh Observatory, in addition to the persons who
are governors thereof by virtue of their offices as provided by the
said section, namely:

one person appointed from time to time by the Governor of Northern
Ireland;

one person appointed from time to time by the governing body of
the Queen's University of Belfast;

Sale or lease of Observatory lands.

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGIATE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1938 - SECT 7

7. The Governors of the Armagh Observatory may apply to the
Ministry of Finance for its approval to the sale or lease of any
part of the lands held by the said governors on the trusts
declared in the Armagh Observatory and Museum Act, 1791; and if, on
any such application and after making such inquiry as it thinks
fit, the Ministry of Finance is satisfied that the proposed sale or
lease would be to the advantage of the said trusts, or would be
in the public interest and can be effected without affecting
prejudically the interests of the said trusts, then the said
Ministry may authorise the sale or lease, and may give such
directions in relation thereto and for securing the due investment
of any moneys arising therefrom for the benefit of the said trusts
as it thinks fit.

Interpretation.

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGIATE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1938 - SECT 8

8. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to
say:

"Armagh Observatory and Museum Act, 1791," means the Act passed by
the Irish Parliament in the session held in the thirty-first year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, chapter
forty-six, intituled, An Act for settling and preserving a Public
Observatory and Museum in the City of Armagh for ever;

"Governors of the Armagh Observatory" means governors and guardians
of the observatory and museum to which the Armagh Observatory and
Museum Act, 1791, applies;

"Lease" includes the granting of land at a rent for a term of
years or in perpetuity, and with or without the payment of a fine;

Definitions rep. by 1953 c.i (NI) s.77

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGIATE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1938 - SECT 9
Short title.

9. This Act may be cited as the University and Collegiate and
Scientific Institutions Act (Northern Ireland), 1938.