Brigadier-General Brownasked the Minister of Agriculture who is responsible for dilapidations when a war agricultural committee has dismissed a tenant-farmer for bad farming and handed back the farm to the owner or replaced him by a new tenant?
Mr. HudsonParagraph 3 of Defence (General) Regulation 62 provides that where the tenancy of an agricultural holding is terminated by notice under the Regulation, the provisions of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, which determine the respective rights of the landlord and tenant, shall apply excepting sections 12 to 14 of the Act relating to compensation for disturbance. It follows, therefore, that the outgoing valuation in the case referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend2092W would be dealt with between the landlord and tenant in the usual way and the landlord would have an opportunity to counter-claim in respect of dilapidations for which the outgoing tenant is liable.