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LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT 1881 - SECT 4

Increase of rent to attract statutory conditions or enhance price on sale.

4. Where the landlord demands an increase of rent from the tenant of a
present tenancy (except where he is authorised by the court to increase the
same as hereafter in this Act mentioned) or demands an increase of rent from
the tenant of a future tenancy beyond the amount fixed at the beginning of
such tenancy, then,

(1)Where the tenant accepts such increase, until the expiration of a term of
fifteen years from the time when such increase was made (in this Act referred
to as a statutory term) such tenancy shall (if it so long continues to
subsist) be deemed to be a tenancy subject to statutory conditions, with such
incidents during the continuance of the said term as are in this Act in that
behalf mentioned:

(2)Where the tenant of any future tenancy does not accept such increase and
sells his tenancy, the same shall be sold subject to the increased rent, and
in addition to the price paid for the tenancy he shall be entitled to receive
from his landlord the amount (if any) by which the court may, on the
application of the landlord or tenant, decide the selling value of his tenancy
to have been depreciated below the amount which would have been such selling
value if the rent had been a fair rent, together with such further sum (if
any) as the court may award in respect of his costs and expenses in effecting
such sale:

(3)Where the tenant does not accept such increase and is compelled to quit the
tenancy by or in pursuance of a notice to quit, but does not sell the tenancy,
he shall be entitled to claim compensation as in the case of disturbance by
the landlord:

Subs.(4) rep. by SLR 1950

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