LAND ACT, 1926

Type Act

Publication 1926-03-11

State In force

Text As published

Source Irish Statute Book

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AN ACT TO CONFIRM AND, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH CONFIRMATION, TO DECLARE THE EXTENT OF THE APPLICATION OF THE LAND ACT, 1923, TO TENANTED LAND AND TO DEFINE MORE FULLY THE LAND WHICH IS TENANTED LAND FOR THE PURPOSES OF THAT ACT. [11th March, 1926.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

1 The Principal Act.

1.—In this Act the expression “Principal Act” means the Land Act, 1923 (No. 42 of 1923).

2 Tenanted land.

2.—It is hereby declared and enacted as follows, that is to say:—

(a) sub-section (2) of section 73 of the Principal Act shall be construed and have effect and be deemed always to have had effect as if the words “which is at the passing of this Act” were inserted therein immediately after the words “means land” and the expression “tenanted land” shall be construed accordingly in the Principal Act and in this Act;

(b) tenanted land did not and shall not cease to be tenanted land by reason of the termination or expiration of the tenancy or the happening of any other event after the passing of the Principal Act whether such event happened before or happens after the passing of this Act;

(c) neither the person who immediately before the passing of the Principal Act was the immediate landlord of any tenanted land nor any successor in title of that person became or shall become entitled to the possession of such tenanted land by reason only of the expiration of the term for which the tenancy was created.

3 Short title, construction and citation.

3.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Land Act, 1926.

(2) This Act shall be read and construed as one with the Principal Act, and may be cited with the Land Purchase Acts.

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