The Agricultural Holdings {England) Act, 1883. G3 
mencemont of this Act, any agreement in writing or custom, or the Agri- 
■cultnral Holdings (Enghmd) Act, 1875, provides specific compensation for any 
improvement comprised in the First Schedule hereto, compensation in respect 
of such improvement, although execirted after the commencement of this Act, 
shall be payable in ])ursuance of such agreement, custom, or Act of Tarlia- 
ment, and shall bo deemed to be substituted for compensation under this Act. 
Where in the case of a tenancy under a contract of tenancy beginning 
after the commencement of this Act, any particular agreement in writing 
secures to the tenant for any improvement mentioned in the third part of the 
First Schedule hereto, and executed after the commencement of this Act, fair 
and reasonable compensation, having regard to the circumstances existing at 
the time of making such agreement, then in such case the compensation in 
respect of such improvement shall be payable in pursuance of the particular 
agreement, and shall be deemed to be substituted for compensation under 
this Act. 
The last preceding provision. of this section relating to a particular agree- 
ment shall apply in the case of a tenancy under a contract of tenancy current 
^it the commencement of this Act in respect of an improvement mentioned in 
the third part of the First Schedule hereto, sj^ecific compensation for which is 
not provided by any agreement in writing, or custom, or the Agricultural 
Holdings Act, 1875. 
Eegulations as to Compensation for Improvements. 
6. Begulaiions as to compensation for imj^rovemoits. — In the ascertain- 
ment of the amount of the compensation imder this Act payable to the 
tenant in respect of any improvement there shall be taken into account in 
reduction thereof : 
. (a.) Any benefit which the landlord has given or allowed to the tenant in 
consideration of the tenant executing the improvement ; and 
(h.) In the case of compensation for manures the value of the manure that 
would have been produced by the consumption on the holding of any 
hay, straw, roots, or green crops sold oif or removed from the holding 
within the last two years of the tenancy or other less time for which the 
tenancy has endured, except as far as a proper return of manure to the 
holding has been made in respect of such produce so sold off or removed 
therefrom ; and 
(c.) Any sums due to the landlord in respect of rent or in respect of any 
waste committed or permitted by the tenant, or in respect of any breach 
of covenant or other agreement connected with the contract of tenancy 
committed by the tenant, also any taxes, rates, and tithe rentcharge due 
or becoming due in respect of the holding to which the tenant is liable as 
between him and the landlord. 
There shall be taken into account in augmentation of the tenant's com- 
pensation — 
(d.) Any sum due to the tenant for compensation in respect of a breach or 
covenant or other agreement connected with a contract of tenancy and 
committed by the landlord. 
Nothing in this section shall enable a landlord to obtain under this Act 
compensation in respect of waste by the tenant or of breach by the tenant 
committed or permitted in relation to a matter of husbandry more than four 
years before the determination of the tenancy. 
Pi-ocedure. 
7. Notice of intended claim. — A tenant claiming compensation under this 
Act shall, two months at least before the determination of the tenancy, give 
notice in writing to the landlord of his intention to make such claim. 
