Drainage and Improvement of Land (Ireland) Act, 1892

Tenant substituted for proprietor to have rights and liabilities of proprietor.

4. Where in pursuance of this Act the tenant of any land is substituted for the proprietor thereof for the purposes of the Drainage Acts, such tenant, and every person in whom the tenancy under which he holds the said land at the time of such substitution is for the time being vested, shall, save as aforesaid, for the purposes of the said Acts, during the continuance of such tenancy, and in respect of the said land, be vested with all the rights and be subject to all the liabilities and obligations of a proprietor; and the proprietor shall, during the same period, be divested of such rights and exempt from such liabilities and obligations; but on the determination of the said tenancy the subsequent provisions of this Act in that behalf shall have effect.