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AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION 



determined at the time at which the tenancy of the incoming 

 tenant determines 



Compensation 

 under this 

 Act to be 

 exclusive in 

 some cases. 

 [Act 1883, 

 s. 57.] 

 See Bran- 

 skill v. Atkin- 

 son, " Times" 

 Legal Report, 

 November ist, 

 1884. 



Compensation 

 under custom 

 to come 

 within the 

 Act. 



49. A tenant shall not be entitled to claim compensation 

 by custom or otherwise than in manner authorized by 

 this Act in respect of any improvements for which he is 

 entitled to compensation under or in pursuance of this 

 Act, except as provided in section seven sub-section (2). 



50. Where a tenant is entitled to claim compensation by 

 custom or otherwise than in manner authorised by this Act, 

 in respect of tillages, crops, fruit trees or bushes, underwood, 

 seeds, straw, hay, or manure left on the holding, or for 

 cartage, or in respect of a proportion of rent, rates, or 

 tithes for any period, or for any other matter or thing 

 connected with the holding, he may claim and obtain 

 compensation therefor under this Act, as though all or any 

 of such matters or things were improvements specified in 

 this Act. 



Provision 

 as to change 

 of tenancy. 

 [Act 1883, 

 s. 58.] 



Restriction 

 in respect of 

 improvements 

 by tenant 

 about to quit. 

 [Act 1883, 

 s. 59.] 



51. (i.) A tenant who has remained in his holding during 

 a change or changes of tenancy, and has not thereupon 

 received compensation for improvements, shall not there- 

 after at the determination of a tenancy be deprived of his 

 right to claim compensation in respect of improvements 

 by reason only that such improvements were made during 

 a former tenancy or tenancies, and not during the tenancy 

 which is then determining, but may claim for them as if 

 made during such last-mentioned tenancy. 



(2.) Where the tenant has so remained in any part of 

 his holding, then this section shall have effect in respect of 

 such part of the holding. 



52. Subject as in this section mentioned, a tenant shall not 

 be entitled to compensation in respect of any improvements 

 (other than the use of fertilisers and feeding stuffs or con- 

 tinuous good farming or tillages and crops, including fruit 

 and vegetables) begun by him, if he holds from year to year, 

 within one year before he quits his holding, or at any time 

 after he has given or received final notice to quit, and, if he 

 holds as a lessee, within one year before the expiration of 

 his lease. 



A final notice to quit means a notice to quit which has 



