HC Deb 28 July 1896 vol 43 cc935-6

(1.) Part One of this Act shall, save as is by this Act expressly provided, apply to every proceeding pending at the commencement of this Act.

(2.) An application to fix a fair rent for a holding shall not be refused on the ground of any previous decision with reference to the holding or any part thereof, whether between the same parties or otherwise, if such application can be sustained under this Act, or any of the Land Law Acts as amended by this Act.

(3.) Parts One and Two of this Act shall be construed as one with the Land Law Acts, and together with those Acts may be cited as the Land Law Acts, and shall apply to all holdings to which the Land Law Acts or any of them, as amended by this Act, apply, and Section twenty-two of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, shall apply as if the said Acts and Parts of this Act were part of the foregoing provisions of the said Act of 1881, within the meaning of the said section.

(4.) Parts Two, Three, and Five of this Act shall be construed as one with the Land Purchase Acts as herein defined, and, together with those Acts may be cited as the Land Purchase Acts.

(5.) Part Four of this Act shall be construed as one with the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Acts, as defined in the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Act, 1894, and together with those Acts may be cited collectively as the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Acts.

MR. T. M. HEALY moved at the end of Sub-section (2) to insert,— and where such application can be so sustained, the holding shall be deemed to be and to have remained a present tenancy as from the passing of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881. He stated that the Amendment was only a drafting Amendment, although it was important, and he hoped the Government would be able to accept it.

MR. MAURICE HEALY

said that if the Government did not accept the Amendment, they might as well drop Clause 3.

THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY

said that as far as they were understood, this was a drafting Amendment, and in that sense they accepted it, with power to reconsider it.

Amendment agreed to.

Schedule agreed to.

Bill to be Read the Third time Tomorrow (Wednesday).

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