Genre: Legal

An Act to amend the Leases for Schools ( Ireland ) Act , 1881 , and otherwise to make provision for enabling certain leases and grants to be made for school purposes . [ 4th June 1928 ] Amendment of 1881 c . 65 , as to leases for schools . 1 . -- ( 1 ) The power of making leases which is conferred by the Leases for Schools ( Ireland ) Act , 1881 , upon the persons therein described shall extend to the making ( subject to the limitations contained in section four of the said Act as to quantity , term and rent ) of leases to an education authority -- ( a ) of land for the purpose of providing a playground or place of recreation or other school accommodation in connection with a school or schools ; or ( b ) of land together with a school or schools and playground , teacher's residence or other school accommodation , erected or provided on such land . ( 2 ) The persons described in the Leases for Schools ( Ireland ) Act , 1881 , shall ( in addition to the power of making leases conferred by that Act or by that Act as extended by this Act ) have power to make leases to an education authority , for any term or in perpetuity , of any quantity of land for any of the purposes mentioned in the said Act or in this Act : Provided that every lease under the provisions of this sub-section shall reserve the best rent that can reasonably be obtained , regard being had to any money laid out or to be laid out on the premises leased and generally to the circumstances of the case , and the provisions of sections five , six and seven of the Leases for Schools ( Ireland ) Act , 1881 , shall apply to every such lease . S. 2 rep . by 1995 NI 7 Short title and interpretation . 3 . -- ( 1 ) This Act may be cited as the School Sites Act ( Northern Ireland ) , 1928 . ( 2 ) In this Act the expression " education authority " F001 means an education authority for the purposes of the Education Act ( Northern Ireland ) , 1923