1 Right of reverter replaced by [trust]

1  Right of reverter replaced by [trust]

(1)     Where any relevant enactment provides for land to revert to the ownership of any person at any time, being a time when the land ceases, or has ceased for a specified period, to be used for particular purposes, that enactment shall have effect, and (subject to subsection (4) below) shall be deemed always to have had effect, as if it provided (instead of for the reverter) for the land to be vested after that time, on the trust arising under this section, in the persons in whom it was vested immediately before that time.

(2)     Subject to the following provisions of this Act, the trust arising under this section in relation to any land is a trust [for the persons who (but for this Act) would from time to time be entitled to the ownership of the

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