AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS BILL 38 1 



PART III. 



General Pi'ovisions. 



45. This Act shall come into force on the first day 0/" Commence- 



Jamiary next after the passing of this Act, which day is in [J'f^^'^j 



this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. [Act 1883, 



s. 53] 



, . Holdings to 



46. (i.) This Act shall apply to every holdmg that is which this 

 either wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in part agri- (i^et^fl'gj"' 

 cultural and as to the residue pastoral, or in whole or ^,5-*^^^^^^ 

 in part cultivated as a market garden. ^^'Jacobs 



(2.) This Act shall also apply to every holding which is 5^^^;'^""® 

 a holding within the meaning of the Allotments and Cottage "Times'' 

 Gardens Compensation for Crops Act, 1887, and the tenant i-f='ai Report, 

 of every such holding shall be entitled to compensation 

 under this Act, in accordance with the procedure of this 

 Act, and every such tenant may, with reference to such 

 matters and things for which a claim may be made under 

 both this Act and the last-mentioned Act of 1887, elect to 

 claim under either of them. 



47. Every contract, agreement, or covenant, condition or Avoidance 

 arrangement which purports to take away or modify, or ?[,^/„;TsTenf 

 which in fact does take away or modify the right of a tenant ^vith Act. 

 to claim compensation under this Act in respect of any s; fj.f ^' 

 improvement or any other right of the tenant as declared 



given or reserved by this Act (except as is expressly 

 provided for by this Act), or imposes upon him any dis- 

 advantage in consequence of his exercising such rights, shall 

 be void both at law and in equity so far as it takes away 

 or modifies his rights or gives him any disadvantage as 

 aforesaid ; and the arbitrator may declare the same to be 

 void accordingly, and proceed in the reference as though 

 the same were non-existent. 



48. Where an incoming tenant has paid to an outgoing Right of 

 tenant any compensation payable under or in pursuance of 'especVof im- 

 this Act in respect of the whole or part of any improve- I'^'J^I™^^* 

 ment, sueh incoming tenant shall be entitled on the from outgoing 

 determination of his tenancy to claim compensation in [^['c^j^'ggj^ 

 respect of such improvement or part in like manner, if at s. 56. 



all, as the outgoing tenant would have been entitled if he ., .'Lee ™888, 

 had remained tenant of the holding, and his tenancy had 59 l.t., 376.) 



