AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS BILL 357 



(i.) In section i, the words " on quitting his holding " are "Siuin? 

 struck out, with the object of securing compensation "^"a"'-" 

 for improvements to a tenant who remains in his 

 holding at the determination of his tenancy. 



(2.) The tenant is enabled to carry out and to get com- First-ciass 

 pensation for any improvements suitable to his holding, '™P''°^"e""^^'^'*- 

 but in the case of buildings and a few other permanent 

 improvements and drainage, notice is required, and the 

 landlord may carry out the improvement in his own 

 way, the terms of interest and repayment being 

 modified. 



(3.) Improvements made prior to the Act, and not dis- improvements 

 sented from by the landlord at the time they are i]|'^°'' ^° '''^ 

 made, are to be compensated for, if found to be suit- 

 able to the holding. 



(4.) The right of the landlord to make a claim under the Landlord's 

 - Act, in respect of hay or other produce removed from <^'=""'s. 

 a holding, or in respect of any permissive waste by 

 the tenant, will be strictly limited to the express 

 covenants of the contract of tenancy {see section 6) ; 

 and no penal rent will be recoverable for a larger 

 amount than the damage actually caused {see section 



7)- 

 (5.) The tenant will be enabled to claim for damage to Damage by 



crops by game during the last year of the tenancy 8^""^- 



(section 6, subsection {g) ). 



(6.) Compensation is given for any loss a tenant may suffer compensaUon 

 from quitting his holding by a capricious or unreason- ^"^l'^'"'^''" 

 able notice to quit. 



(7.) Section 7 of the Act of 1883 is amended so that the Notices of 

 landlord as well as the tenant may make a claim claim, 

 under the Act, and that both claims be made twenty- 

 eight days before the determination of the tenancy. 



(8.) Provision is made for a record of the condition of Record of con- 

 holdings at the commencement of tenancies and in ^'"°°- 

 awards. (&^ sections 5 and 17, subsection (2.) ) 



(9.) Agricultural arbitrators, who shall be practical men Agricultural 

 with local knowledge, are to be appointed by the ^■'bi'rators. 



Note. The corresponding sections of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 

 18S3 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 61.), are placed in the margin of each section, in 

 brackets thus [Act 1883, s. l] — to facilitate comparison. 



References are also given to cases in the Law Reports which are made 

 the ground for amendments of the existing Acts. 



