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LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW AMENDMENT ACT (IRELAND) 1860 - SECT 31

Tenant shall not cut or lop trees.

31. No tenant of any lands holden under any lease or other contract of tenancy
conferring an estate or interest less than a perpetual estate or interest, and
made on or after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, shall cut down, top, lop, or grub any tree or wood growing on the
said lands, unless such tenant shall be authorized thereto by covenant or
agreement in the lease under which the lands are holden, if there be a lease,
or unless such tenant shall have the previous consent in writing of the
landlord competent to give such consent for that purpose, or shall have been
lawfully required so to do, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each
tree cut down, topped, lopped, or grubbed, to be recoverable by the immediate
landlord by civil bill action ...: Provided, that nothing in this provision
contained shall affect any right which any tenant may lawfully exercise or
enjoy in respect of trees duly registered and belonging to such tenant, or in
respect of willows, osiers, or sallows, under any Act in force in Ireland.


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