Section 18 Varying the Third Rule relating to surrender of quarries by substituting Michaelmas Day for Lady Day.

Whereas by Number Three of the Rules and Regulations relating to quarries made by the Commissioners appointed by the said Act as aforesaid, it was provided that all persons then holding one or more gale or gales of stone quarry or quarries, as ascertained by the said Award, should be at liberty to give up all or any of such gales at Lady Day in any year after the date thereof, upon giving three months previous notice in writing to the Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller as therein mentioned: And whereas in the leases of stone quarries which have been granted under the eighty-third section of the said Act, there has been commonly contained a proviso that it shall be lawful for the lessee to determine the lease at Michaelmas in any year on giving six months notice; and also a covenant or declaration that the lease was granted subject to the Rules and Regulations contained in the said Award, which last-mentioned covenant or declaration is not consistent with the Third Rule herein-before mentioned: Be it enacted, that the said Third Rule shall be varied as regards all surrenders for which notice shall not have been given before the passing of this Act, by substituting therein Michaelmas Day for Lady Day,and that the aforesaid provisoes contained in leases of quarries granted as aforesaid shall be deemed valid and effectual notwithstanding such inconsistency with the said Rule as aforesaid.