HC Deb 30 July 1909 vol 8 cc1539-40

In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

  1. (a) The expression "pending purchase agreements" means agreements lodged with the Land Commission on or before the first day of March nineteen hundred and nine, or entered into on or before that date by or with the Land Commission or the Congested Districts Board;
  2. (b) The expression "future purchase agreements" means agreements lodged with the Land Commission or entered into by the Land Commission or the Congested Districts Board after that date:

Provided that purchase agreements entered into at any time on the re-sale by the Land Commission or Congested Districts Board—

  1. (i) of land purchased or agreed to be purchased by them on or before the first day of March nineteen hundred and nine; or
  2. (ii) of land being land in respect of which or comprised in an estate in respect of which a purchase agreement, though not actually entered into on or before the twenty-fourth day of November nineteen hundred and eight, is deemed for the purposes of the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the percentage payable under the Act of 1903, to have been entered into on or before that date;
shall be treated for the purposes of this Part of this Act as pending purchase agreements and not as future purchase agreements;

(c) An order of the Land Judge under section seven or section seventy-seven of the Act of 1903 vesting any land in the Land Commission or the Congested Districts Board, and an order of the Estates Commissioners vesting land in the Land Commission under section two of the Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Act, 1907, shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act be treated as an agreement entered into by that Commission or Board as the case may be;

(d) The expression "prescribed" means prescribed by the Treasury.

Clause agreed to.