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LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT 1881 - SECT 6

Hunting, shooting, fishing, or taking game or fish, and if the landlord at the commencement of the statutory term so requires, then as between the landlord and tenant the right of shooting and taking game, and of fishing and taking fish shall belong exclusively to the landlord, subject to the provisions of the Ground Game Act, 1880|, and the provisions of the Game Trespass Act, 1864|, shall extend where such right of shooting and taking game belongs exclusively to the landlord as though such exclusive right were reserved by the landlord to himself by deed. The word ""game'' for the purposes of this subsection means hares, rabbits, pheasants, partridges, quails, landrails, grouse, woodcock, snipe, wild duck, widgeon, and teal;

6. ... The compensation payable under the said section three in the case of a
tenant disturbed in his holding by the act of a landlord after the passing of
this Act shall be as follows in the case of holdings

Where the rent is thirty pounds or under, a sum not exceeding seven years'
rent:

Where the rent is above thirty pounds and not exceeding fifty pounds, a sum
not exceeding five years' rent:

Where the rent is above fifty pounds and not exceeding one hundred pounds, a
sum not exceeding four years' rent:

Where the rent is above one hundred pounds and not exceeding three hundred
pounds, a sum not exceeding three years' rent:

Where the rent is above three hundred pounds and not exceeding five hundred
pounds, a sum not exceeding two years' rent:

Where the rent is above five hundred pounds, a sum not exceeding one year's
rent.

Any tenant in a higher class of the scale may, at his option, claim
compensation under a lower class, provided such compensation shall not exceed
the sum to which he would be entitled under such lower class on the assumption
that the rent of his holding was reduced to the sum (or where two sums are
mentioned, the higher sum) stated in such lower class.

...

Amendment of 1870 c.46 as to compensation for improvements.



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