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LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT 1896 - SECT 5

Exclusion of certain holdings.

5.(1) The Land Law Acts, except section seven of the
Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881 (which amends the
Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, in respect of compensation for
improvements), shall not apply to the following tenancies:

(a)To a tenancy in any holding which is not substantially either agricultural
or pastoral in its character, or partly agricultural and partly pastoral, or
the main object of the letting of which was for a residence:

(b)To a tenancy in any holding which substantially consists of

(i)land being or forming part of a home farm; or

(ii)land which when first demised was demesne, and which the provisions of the
contract of tenancy, or the circumstances of the case, show was intended to be
preserved as demesne or resumed as demesne by the landlord; or

<(iii)land incorporated in a demesne by the tenant, and forming part of a demesne at the time the application to fix a fair rent is made:


(c)To a tenancy in a holding (other than a holding let to be used wholly or
mainly for a dairy farm) which is let to be used wholly or mainly for the
purpose of pasture

(i)if it is of the rateable value of upwards of one hundred pounds; or

(ii)if the tenant does not actually reside on the holding, or where the
holding adjoins or is ordinarily used with another holding, then on the latter
holding.

Subs.(2)(3) rep. by SLR 1950

(4) Nothing in this section shall extend to any holding in respect of which a
judicial rent has been fixed before the commencement of this Act.

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