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Definitions. 
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1.—In this Act— 
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“the Land Commission” means the Irish Land Commission; 
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“the Minister” means the Minister for Agriculture; 
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“prescribed” means prescribed by rules under section 7; 
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“purchase annuity” means an annual payment to the Land Commission under the Land Purchase Acts, other than rent under a temporary agreement; 
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“temporary agreement” means a letting for temporary convenience, temporary necessity or temporary pasturage or a grazing, conacre or agistment agreement; 
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“works” refers to the following or any of them:— 
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(a) field drainage; 
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(b) land reclamation; 
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(c) the construction and improvement of watercourses; 
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(d) the removal of unnecessary fences; 
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(e) the construction of new fences and the improvement of existing ones; 
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(f) improvement of hill grazing; 
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(g) reclamation of estuarine marsh land and of callows; 
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(h) any operations ancillary to the foregoing. 
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