Section 175 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 175 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Restrictions on the perpetuity rule. It provides as follows:

(1) For removing doubts, it is hereby declared that the rule of law relating to
perpetuities does not apply and shall be deemed never to have applied
(a) To any power to distrain on or to take possession of land or the income thereof given by way of indemnity against a rent, whether charged upon or payable in respect of any part of that land or not; or

(b) To any grant, exception, or reservation of any right of entry on, or user of, the
surface of land or of any easements, rights, or privileges over or under land for the purpose of
(i) inspecting, grubbing up, felling and carrying away timber and other trees, and the tops and lops thereof;
(ii) executing repairs, alterations, or additions to any adjoining land, or the buildings and erections thereon;

(iii) constructing, laying down, altering, repairing, renewing, cleansing, and
maintaining sewers, watercourses, cesspools, gutters, drains, water-pipes, gas-pipes, electric wires or cables or other like works.

(2) This section applies to instruments coming into operation before or after the
commencement of this Law.