HC Deb 31 July 1891 vol 356 c1040

Lords Amendments to Commons Amendments to Lords Amendments considered.

First Amendment agreed to.

Page 16, Amendment in lieu of Clause F, insert the following Clause:—

(Power to Land Commission to claim possession of holding.)

"Whenever the Land Commission are entitled to cause any holding to he sold under any power of sale, they may, if they think fit, apply to the High Court, or (if the rateable value of the holding does not exceed fifty pounds) to the County Court of the county in which such holding is situate, for an order to the Sheriff to put them in possession of such holding, and it shall be" lawful for such Court, upon being satisfied that the Land Commission are so entitled, to issue an order accordingly, and such order shall be executed by the Sheriff in like manner as a writ for the delivery of possession,"

—the next Amendment, read a second time.

Amendments made.

Amendment proposed, After the words last added, to add the words: "Where such order has been made on account of any arrears of an annuity in respect of which a guarantee deposit is retained at the date of the order, such arrears shall be declared by the Land Commission to be an irrecoverable debt within the meaning of section three of The Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885.'"—(Mr. Knox.)

Question proposed, "That those words be there added."

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Amendment, as amended, agreed to.

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