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The above provisions of the Act do not a[)i)ly to land hM hy 

 or on behalf of the Admiralty, War Department or Air Council, 

 when possession of land is required for Naval, MiUtary, or Air 

 Force purposes, or to tenancies of Defence of the Eealm allotment: 

 gardens. 



In the case of land let either before or ajter the passing of the 

 Act for use by a tenant as an allotment garden, it is provided that 

 the tenant will be entitled to compensation for crops and manure 

 on the basis of the value to an ingoing tenant only if the tenancy 

 is terminated by the landlord, and is so terminated either between 

 the 6th day of April and the 29th day of September (the ordinary 

 summer cropping season of an allotment garden) or by re-entry 

 at any time in the exceptional circumstances. set out above. In 

 the case of land let after the passing of this Act to any local 

 authority or association for the purpose of being sub-let for use 

 by the tenants as allotment-gardens, the landlord will be hable 

 to pay compensation to the local authority or association, 

 notwithstanding that the crops have been grown and 

 the manure applied by the tenants of the local authority 

 or association. In future the compensation payable to 

 a tenant of an allotment garden will be determined in default 

 of agreement by a valuation made by a person appointed, if the 

 parties cannot agree, by the judge of the County Court having 

 jurisdiction in the place where the land is situated. These pro- 

 visions take the place of the existing statutory provisions as to 

 compensation for disturbance, or crops, etc. 



The Act also gives a Borough or Urban District Council 

 power to enter for the purpose of providing allotment garden^^ 

 on land which is unoccupied at the date of the notice of entry, 

 or which was unoccupied when possession was first taken by 

 the Minister of Agriculture for the purpose of providing Defence 

 of the Realm allotments. ** Unoccupied " land means land 

 which is not the subject of such occupation as would involve 

 liability to the payment of the poor rate or any rate leviable in 

 Hke manner as the poor rate. Any person who is interested 

 in any land so entered upon and suffers any loss as the result 

 of the Council's entry, can claim compensation by way of 

 periodical payments or otherwise, the amount to be deter- 

 mind in default of agi'eement by a valuation made by a person 

 appointed, if the parties cannot agree, by the Minister of Agri- 

 culture. The owner of any lond so entered upon by a Council 

 m.ay terminate the Council's right of occupation by giving not 

 less than two months' notice in writing in nny case where the 



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