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Section 66 Cutting and sale of timber, and capitalisation of part of proceeds.

(1)

Where a tenant for life is impeachable for waste in respect of timber, and there is on the settled land timber ripe and fit for cutting, the tenant for life, on obtaining the consent of the trustees of the settlement or an order of the court, may cut and sell that timber, or any part thereof.

C1(2)

Three fourth parts of the net proceeds of the sale shall be set aside as and be capital money arising under this Act, and the other fourth part shall go as rents and profits.

Annotations

Modifications

C1

S. 66(2) applied by Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10), s. 29(3)

Notes on Part II

Modifications

C1

Part II saved by Trafalgar Estates Act 1947 (c. 34), s. 2(3) and Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (c. 88), s. 6(4); extended by Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10), s. 5(4), Sch. 2 para. 1