Land Act, 1927
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Provision for the application of the Land Act, 1923 , to tenancies on purchased holdings. |
10.—(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 9 of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891 , and of clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 24 of the Land Act, 1923 , tenanted land, constituting or forming part of a holding purchased under any Land Purchase Act passed prior to the Land Act, 1923 , shall not, when the tenancy was in existence before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be excluded from the provisions of the Land Act, 1923 , by reason only of its having been so purchased and the provisions of section 20 of the Land Act, 1923 , shall apply to such tenanted land, unless excluded by some other provision of that Act, from the gale day next preceding the passing of this Act as from which day the liability of the tenant for payment in lieu of rent and of the Land Commission for payment of the sum equivalent to the sum to be collected as payment in lieu of rent, pursuant to section 20 of the Land Act, 1923 , shall commence, but this section shall not alter or affect the liability of the tenant for rent and arrears of rent up to and including such gale day as aforesaid provided that this section shall not apply (a) to tenanted lands, where by reason of the extent and character of the lands the Land Commission are of opinion that the provisions of the Land Act, 1923 , should not apply, or, (b) to tenanted lands vested in the Land Commission under any Act prior to the Land Act, 1923 , so long as the fee-simple thereof remains vested in the Land Commission. | |
(2) The provisions of section 14 of the Land Act, 1923 , shall apply in case of the vesting of any tenanted land by virtue of this section. |