§ Mr. SHEEHANasked the Chief Secretary whether a tenant who took a lease in 1896, with a covenant therein precluding him from going into a court to have a fair rent fixed, will come within the operations of the clause in the Land Bill dealing with future tenants; and, if not, will he consider the position of the tenants who have entered into leases of the kind mentioned?
§ Mr. BIRRELLAs I have already informed the hon. Member for North Longford, in reply to a question asked by him on the 4th instant, the provisions of the Bill, as introduced, apply to every case in which a tenancy, which gave the right to have fair rent fixed, has been determined, and a new tenancy created in the same tenant, debarring him from the right of having a fair rent fixed. Any clause or provision in the new contract of tenancy which prohibits the tenant from applying to have a fair rent fixed is declared to be void.
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