HC Deb 22 July 1896 vol 43 c404

(1.) The Land Commission, upon the sale of a holding under Section 30 of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, or under any power of sale, may sell the holding in lots.

(2.) Section 15 of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, as amended by this Act, shall extend to a sale of a holding by the Land Commission, as successors to the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland.

(3.) Where a holding is subject to the future payment of an annuity, and the Land Commission sell it in lots, or a portion of any such holding is required for any of the purposes mentioned in Section 5 of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, for which a holding may be resumed, the Land Commission may apportion the annuity in such manner as they deem expedient.

(4.) Where the Land Commission sell a holding, the purchase money shall be paid and distributed as if it were the purchase money of a holding sold by a landlord to a tenant.

MR. MAURICE HEALY moved, in Sub-section (3), after the word "expedient," to insert— or may, if they think fit, make an order discharging any such portion of the holding as aforesaid from any further liability for such annuity, or any part thereof, or any arrears thereof.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Clause 33,—