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Retrait Lignager (Abolition) (Alderney) Law, 2015
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The Retrait Lignager (Abolition) (Alderney) Law, 2015
THE STATES OF ALDERNEY, in pursuance of their Resolution of the 17th June, 2015, have approved the following provisions which, subject to the Sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, shall have force of law in the Island of Alderney.
Abolition of right of retrait lignager.
1. (1) Subject to subsection (3), the right of redemption of real property ("droit de retrait lignager") is abolished.
(2) The following enactments are repealed –
(a) the Law entitled "Loi relative au Retrait Lignager, aux Appropriements, et à la Lecture de Contrats aux Plaids d'Héritage (Auregny)" registered on the 25th January 1949[a], and
(b) sections 19 and 20 of the Alderney Land and Property, etc., Law, 1949[b].
(3) Nothing in this Law shall affect any proceedings en retrait lignager instituted before the commencement of this Law.
Interpretation.
2. (1) In this Law -
"enactment" means any Law, Ordinance or subordinate legislation,
"subordinate legislation" means any regulation, rule, order, rule of court, resolution, scheme, byelaw or other instrument made under any enactment and having legislative effect.
(2) The Interpretation (Guernsey) Law, 1948[c] applies to the interpretation of this Law.
(3) Any reference in this Law to an enactment is a reference thereto as from time to time amended, re-enacted (with or without modification), extended or applied.
Citation.
3. This Law may be cited as the Retrait Lignager (Abolition) (Alderney) Law, 2015.
Commencement.
4. This Law shall come into force on the date of its registration on the records of the Island of Alderney.