HC Deb 21 July 1896 vol 43 cc333-4

(1.) After the commencement of this Act a County Court shall not have any jurisdiction, either to dispose of an application to fix a fair rent, or in relation to any proceeding under the Land Law Acts, or this part of this Act, and the Land Commission shall alone be deemed to be the Court within the meaning of those Acts and this part of this Act; and any such application or proceeding which is pending at the said commencement in any County Court shall be transferred to the Land Commission, and all records and papers relating to any application or proceeding under the Land Law Acts, whether so pending or not, shall be transferred to the Land Commission, by such persons, and in such manner, and in accordance with such regulations, as the Land Commission may direct and make.

(2.) Where an ejectment is brought in any County Court for the nonpayment of the rent of a, bidding and an application to fix a fair rent, whether made before or after the ejectment was brought, is pending, the Court shall, unless they consider that the application is not bonâ fide, stay the proceedings in such ejectment until the application has been disposed of.

Under the Order of the House of this date, Clause 15 ceased to he part, of the Bill.

Clause 16,—