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CONTEMPORARY AGRICULTURAL LAW. 



I. — Legislation. 



There are two Acts of Parliament, passed in 1914, which are 

 of considerable importance to those interested in Agriculture. 



The first is the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1914 (4 and 5 

 Geo. 5 c. 7), which provides that where the tenancy of an 

 agricultural holding is terminated after the passing of the Act 

 (July 31, 1914), by notice to quit given after that date (a) in 

 view of the sale or offering for sale of the holding or any part 

 thereof, or (b) by or at the request of the purchaser of the 

 holding, before the expiration of one year after the completion 

 of the purchase of the holding, for any reason other than the 

 wrongful act or default of the tenant in relation to the holding, 

 the tenant shall be entitled to compensation for disturbance as 

 provided by Section 11 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1908 

 (i.e., for the loss or expense directly attributable to his quitting 

 the holding, unavoidably incurred in connection with the sale 

 or removal of his household goods, implements, produce or 

 farm stock), but so that notice of his intention to claim com.- 

 pensation may be given at any time not less than two months 

 before the determination of the tenancy. The Act does not 

 give compensation in any case to which the Small Holdings 

 Act, 1910, applies, and it is provided that any difference under 

 the Act shall in default of agreement be settled by arbitration. 

 It was passed to meet the hardship complained of by tenant 

 farmers of being obliged to give up their holdings in conse- 

 quence of sales by their landlords and for no default of their 

 own. 



The second Act is the long promised Milk and Dairies Act, 

 1914 (4 and 5 Geo. 5 c. 49). Section 1 makes it an offence — 

 (a) to sell or offer for sale or suffer to be sold or offered for 

 sale for human consumption or for use in the manufacture of 

 products for human consumption, aiid (6) to use or suffer to be 

 used in the manufacture of products for human consumption, 

 the milk of any cow which has given tuberculous milk or is 

 suffering from emaciation due to tuberculosis or from tuber- 

 culosis of the udder, or from acute inflammation of the udder, 

 or from any of the diseases specified in the First Schedule to 

 the Act (which includes anthrax, foot and mouth disease, and 

 suppuration of the udder), but it must be proved that the 

 person selling or offering for sale had previously received 

 notice from an officer of a local authority, or that he otherwise 

 knew, or by the exercise of ordinary care could have ascertained, 

 that the cow had given tuberculous milk or was suffering 

 from any such disease. 



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