HL Deb 10 August 1896 vol 44 cc318-9

In the case of a tenant who applied to the Court under Section sixty of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, on the first occasion on which it sat, to have a fair rent fixed, and who, since making that application, has signed an agreement under Sub-section (6) of Section eight of the said Act, the statutory term so created shall, where the judicial rent has been received as having accrued due from the gale day succeeding the date of application, for the purpose of an application to fix a fair rent, be held to date from the day on which the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, came into force.

*THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE

moved to leave out from the words "gale day" to the end of the clause, and insert the word— next after the day on which the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, came into force, be held for the purpose of an application to fix a fair rent to date from that gale day

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 5,—