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9. Section 14 removes a grievance in the case of a tenant of 

 glebe land, who has hitherto been liable to removal in conse- 

 quence of the death of the incumbent and places him in the same 

 position with regard to compensation for disturbance as a tenant 

 of other land. 



10. Section 15 materially improves the position of a tenant 

 as regards compensation for improvements. At present a tenant 

 can only obtain compensation for permanent improvements if 

 the landlord consents to their execution. Under the' Act, if a 

 landlord refuses consent to the making of any improvement, 

 prescribed by regulation by the Minister as an improvement to 

 which this provision is to apply, an arbitrator or the County 

 Agricultural Committee can, after hearing the landlord's case, 

 direct that the improvement shall be treated as an improvement 

 for which consent is not required, but in that event the landlord 

 will, as in the case of drainage, have the option of executing the 

 improvement and charging an appropriate additional rent to 

 the tenant. 



As regards market garden improvements, the section contains 

 provisions enabling an arbitrator or the Agricultural Committee 

 to apply to a holding, or any part of a holding, the conditions 

 known as " the Evesham Custom " under which the tenant 

 who determines his tenancy is only entitled to compensation for 

 market garden improvements if he can find another tenant 

 willing to take his place and to ( undertake his liability for 

 compensation. 



11. Section 16 provides for compensation for a tenant who 

 has continuously adopted a standard of farming or a system of 

 farming which has been more beneficial to the holding than the 

 standard or system (if any) required by his contract of tenancy. 

 Section 19 provides a corresponding compensation for the land- 

 lord in the case of the deterioration of a holding by a tenant. 



12. Section 18 enables a landlord to claim arbitration in 

 respect of any breaches of contract by the tenant, and in this 

 respect puts him in the same position as regards enforcement of 

 his claim as that in which the tenant is under the Agricultural 

 Holdings Act, 1908. All questions between landlord and 

 tenant will be referable to arbitration, but particulars of a claim 

 must be given within two months of the termination of the 

 tenancy. 



13. Under Section 28 notices to quit, other than a notice given 

 by a tenant to a sub-tenant, if given after the 1st January, 1921. 

 must be twelve month notices, unless the case falls within the 



