§ (1) Where land is let by a local authority, an association, or any other person for use by the tenant as an allotment garden, the tenant shall, subject to the provisions of this Section and notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, be entitled at the termination of the tenancy, on removing from the land, to recover from the lessor compensation for crops growing upon the land in the ordinary course of the cultivation of the land as an allotment garden, and for manure applied to the land since the taking of the last crop therefrom in anticipation of a future crop, such compensation to be based on the value of the growing crops and manure to an incoming tenant.
§ The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr. Munro)I beg to move, in Sub-section (1), to leave out the words "since the taking of the last crop therefrom in anticipation of a future crop."
This Amendment arises in consequence of what happened in Committee. Certain words were added to the Sub-section 1358 which seemed to render not only unnecessary but even undesirable the words which I am proposing to move out. The Sub-section deals with the compensation which the allotment gardener is in certain circumstances to receive—compensation, in this case, for growing crops and for manure. It is now provided that the compensation is to be based on the value of the crops and manure to an incoming tenant. That being so, it is no longer necessary to inquire when the manure was applied or with what motive. Exhausted value is excluded now: and residual value alone is reckoned. The difference is really trifling, hut it seems better to leave out those words, firstly, because their omission will, I think, facilitate the operations of the arbitrator, and, secondly, because the allotment garden holder's compensation will then be the same in Scotland as it is in England.
§ Amendment agreed to.