Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891

Extension of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 49. s. 19.

26.(1) The provisions of section nineteen of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, and the enactments amending the same, shall apply in all cases where an advance is made for the purchase of a holding under the Land Purchase Acts and this Act, and the powers thereby conferred on the Land Commission in regard to the determination of rent shall be exerciseable by them, with the necessary modifications, in sanctioning an agreement for sale; and for that purpose the expression “labourer,” as used in the said section and the said enactments, shall mean a man whose occupation during the ordinary season of agricultural work is the doing of agricultural work for hire on the holding, and shall include a herdsman.

(2) It shall be the duty of the inspector appointed by the Land Commission to report whether the holding affords sufficient security for the advance applied for, to inquire into the condition in respect of house accommodation of every labourer employed on the holding, and to report to the Land Commission accordingly.

(3) If an order has been made in favour of any labourer employed on the holding, no proceedings for the recovery of a penalty under such order shall be defeated by reason only of the labourer having been dismissed from such employment.