HL Deb 07 August 1896 vol 44 c71

(1.) The Land Commission upon the sale of a holding under Section thirty of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, or under any power of sale, may sell the holding in lots. (2.) Section fifteen 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 in the exercise of their powers under the Land Purchase Acts authorise the sub-division of the holding, 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 be paid and distributed as if it were the purchase money of a holding sold by a landlord to a tenant.

*THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE

moved in Sub-section (4) after the word "shall" to insert the words "subject to the provisions of Section thirty of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881."

Amendment agreed to.

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

Clause 38,—