§ (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 Laud (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 he resumed, 928 the Land Commission may apportion the annuity in such manner as they deem expedient, 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.
§ (4.) Where the Land Commission sell a holding, the purchase money shall he paid and distributed as if it were the purchase money of a holding sold by a landlord to a tenant.
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MR. GERALD BALFOUR moved in Sub-section (3) to leave out the words—
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 he resumed,
in order to insert instead thereof the words—
in the exercise of their powers under the Land Purchase Acts authorise the sub-division of the holding.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 31,—