AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT. 4'J 



(4.) Plantations ; 



(5.) Mines; 



(G.) Briclv-earth, gravel, or sand ; 



(7.) Watercourses or reservoirs ; 



(8.) Eoads, tramways, &c. 



In all these cases the provisions of the Act apply as regards compen- 

 sation, as on determination of a tenancy of an entire holding, and the 

 tenant will be entitled to a proportionate redaction of rent for the land 

 taken, and also in respect of any depreciation of the value to him of tl)e 

 residue of the holding by the withdrawal of that land or liy the use to 

 be made thereof. 



Sec. 53 relates to fixtures. 



By sec. 54, nothing in the Act shall prevent a landlord and tenant 

 from making any agreement they may think fit ; but by sec. 55 they 

 may adopt certain parts of the Act, and not the whole. 



By sec. 50, this Act will apply to all future tenancies, unless the 

 parties agree in uniting that this Act shall not apply to their contract. 



And by sec. 57, either landlord or tenant in any contract of tenancy 

 current at the commencement of the Act might, by giving notice to the 

 other within two months after the commencement of the Act, viz., 

 February 14, 1.S76, become exempt from the provisions of the Act ; and 

 the Act does not apply to holdings of less than two acres. 



It will be observed that the adoption of the Act is not compulsory, 

 and that it does not interfere with the freedom of contract between 

 landlord and tenant in any way. It seems, moreover, that the process 

 of settling a heavy case is both expensive and long : certain it is at any 

 rate that the Act has not at present been adopted to any extent. 



