62 Tlie Agricultural Holdings (^England) Act, 1883. 
under the Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1875, to compensation 
in respect of such improvement ; or 
(2.) Where a tenant has executed an improvement mentioned in the first 
or second part of tbe said First Schedule within ten years previous to 
the commencement of this Act, and he is not entitled under any con- 
tract, or custom, or under the Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 
1875, to compensation in respect of such improvement, and the landlord 
within one year after the commencement of this Act declares in writing 
his consent to the making of such improvement, then such tenant on 
quitting his holding at the determination of a tenaticy after the com- 
mencement of this Act may claim compensation under this Act in 
respect of such improvement in the same manner as if this Act had been 
in force at the time of the execution of such improvement. 
As to Improvements executed after the Commencement of Act. 
3. Consent of landlord as to improvement in First Schedule, Part I. — 
Compensation under this Act shall not be payable in respect of any improve- 
ment mentioned in the first part of the First Schedule hereto, and executed 
after the commencement of this Act, unless the landlord, or his agent duly 
authorised in that behalf, has, previously to the execution of the improve- 
ment and after the passing of this Act, consented in writing to the making of 
such improvement, and any such consent may be given by the landlord un- 
conditionally, or upon such terms as to compensation, or otherwise, as may be 
agreed upon between the landlord and the tenant, and in the event of any 
agreement being made between the landlord and the tenant, any compensation 
payable thereunder shall be deemed to be substituted for compensation under 
this Act. 
4. Notice to landlord as to improvement in First Schedule, Part II. — 
Compensation under this Act shall not be payable in respect of any improve- 
ment mentioned in the second part of the First Schedule hereto, and executed 
after the commencement of this Act, unless the tenant has, not more than 
three months and not less than two months before beginning to execute such 
improvement, given to the landlord, or his agent duly authorised in that 
behalf, notice in writing of his intention so to do, and of the manner in which 
he proposes to do the intended work, and upon such notice being given, the 
landlord and tenant may agree on the terms as to compensation or otherwise 
on which the improvement is to be executed, and in the event of any such 
agreement being made, any compensation payable thereunder shall be deemed 
to be substituted for compensation under this Act, or the landlord may, 
unless the notice of the tenant is previously withdrawn, undertake to execute 
the improvement himself, and maj' execute the same in any reasonable and 
proper manner which he thinks fit, and charge the tenant with a sum not 
exceeding five pounds per centum per aimum on the outlay incurred in 
executing the improvement, or not exceeding such annual sum payable for a 
period of twenty-five years as will repay such outlay in the said period, with 
interest at the rate of three per centum per annum, such annual sum to be 
recoverable as rent. In default of any such agreement or undertaking, and 
also in the event of the landlord failing to comply with his undertaking 
within a reasonable time, the tenant may execute the improvement himself, 
and shall in respect thereof be entitled to compensation under this Act. 
The landlord and tenant may, if they think fit, dispense with any notice 
under this section, and come to an agreement in a lease or otherwise between 
themselves in the same manner and of the same validity as if such notice had 
been given. 
5. Peservation as to existing and future contracts of tenancy. — Where, 
in the case of a tenancy under a contract of tenancy current at the com- 
