Under the Irish Free State Constitution, all lands and waters, mines and minerals within the territory of the Irish Free State became vested in the State, boards and departments thereof, subject to such grants, leases, trusts and concessions as existed in respect thereof or of any valid private interest.<\/p>\n
This effectively vested all land which was the property of the Crown in the Irish Free State or in any department to hold the same.<\/p>\n
In many cases, land may be vested in state bodies which no longer exist. In most cases, the functions and assets of one body, which ceased to exist, were transferred to another.<\/p>\n
Article 10 of the Irish Constitution 1937 provides that land vested in the Irish Free State became vested in the State of Ireland. The State Property Act 1954 deemed State land to be land which belongs to the state or a state authority. The legislation vested\u00a0 State land, which was not immediately before the Act not vested in the State, in the Minister for Finance.<\/p>\n\n
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State and Public Sector Land There is no automatic or presumed access to State or public sector land. The\u00a0 State is in the same position as other landowners. The State and public authorities are subject to the general laws of property and do not enjoy any special position. The State is the successor to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31482,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions\/31482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}