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LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) ACT 1870 - SECT 9 

Limitation as to disturbance in holding.

9. For the purposes of this Act, ejectment for non-payment of rent, or for
breach of any condition against asssignment, subletting, bankruptcy, or
insolvency, shall not be deemed disturbance of the tenant by act of the
landlord; and for the purposes of this Act a person who is ejected for
non-payment of rent, or for breach of any such condition as aforesaid, and is
not disturbed by act of the landlord within the meaning of this Act, shall
stand in the same position in all respects as if he were quitting his holding
voluntarily; provided that in the case of a person claiming compensation on
the determination by ejectment for non-payment of rent of a tenancy existing
at the time of the passing of this Act, and continuing to exist without
alteration of rent up to the time of such determination, the Court may, if it
think fit, treat such ejectment as a disturbance if the arrear of rent in
respect of which it is brought did not wholly accrue within the three previous
years, and if any earlier arrear remained due from the tenant at the time of
commencing the ejectment, or, if in case of any such tenancy of a holding held
at an annual rent not exceeding fifteen pounds, the Court shall certify that
the non-payment of rent causing the eviction has arisen from the rent being an
exorbitant rent; provided that no tenant who shall have given notice of
surrender, and afterwards refuse to give up possession in pursuance of such
notice, shall be entitled to any compensation under section three of this Act,
though evicted by the landlord in a suit founded on such notice.

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