Schools Sites Act 1841

2 Landlords empowered to convey land to be used as sites for schools, &c. E+W+S

Any person, being seised in fee simple, fee tail, or for life, of and in any manor or lands of freehold, copyhold, or customary tenure, and having the beneficial interest F1 . . . , may grant, convey, or enfranchise by way of gift, sale, or exchange, in fee simple or for a term of years, any quantity not exceeding one acre of such land, as a site for a school for the education of poor persons, or for the residence of the schoolmaster or schoolmistress, or otherwise for the purposes of the education of such poor persons in religious and useful knowledge; provided that no such grant made by any person seised only for life of and in any such manor or lands shall be valid, unless the person next entitled to the same in remainder, in fee simple or fee tail, (if legally competent,) shall be a party to and join in such grant: [F2 Provided also, that where any portion of waste or commonable land shall be gratuituously conveyed by any lord or lady of a manor for any such purposes as aforesaid, the rights and interests of all persons in the said land shall be barred and divested by such conveyance]: Provided also, that upon the said land so granted as aforesaid, or any part thereof, ceasing to be used for the purposes in this Act mentioned, the same shall thereupon immediately revert to and become a portion of the said estate held in fee simple or otherwise, or of any manor or land as aforesaid, as fully to all intents and purposes as if this Act had not been passed, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by virtue of Education (Scotland) Act 1945 (c. 37), Sch. 5

F2 Words in s. 2 repealed (E.W.) (1.10.2007 for E. and 1.4.2012 for W.) by Commons Act 2006 (c. 26), ss. 48(2)(b), 56, Sch. 6 Pt. 3 (with s. 60); S.I. 2007/2584, art. 2(c)(d)(ii); S.I. 2012/739, art. 2(g)(h)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 2 power to exclude third proviso conferred by Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 44, SIF 41:2), s. 106(3)

C2 S. 2: power to exclude third proviso conferred by Education (Scotland) Act 1962 (c. 47), s. 119(1) and Education Act 1973 (c. 16), s. 2(3)

C3 S. 2 third proviso restricted (E.W.) (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 557(8)(a), 583(2) (with s. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39).

C4 S. 2 third proviso excluded (S.) (retrospectively) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 86, 129(3) (with ss. 119, 121)