Purchase of Land (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1889

Land Commission may advance money to tenants to purchase lands to increase the size of their holdings.

48 & 49 Vict. c. 73.

1. Where the sale of a holding is about to be made by a landlord to a tenant under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, and the Acts amending the same, and such tenant is desirous of purchasing additional land which either adjoins such holding or is in the opinion of the Land Commission under the special circumstances of the case reasonably required for the suitable and convenient use and enjoyment of such holding, the Land Commission may, if it thinks fit, advance to the tenant, for the purpose of purchasing such additional land, the principal money, to be paid in like manner as if the purchaser had been tenant of such additional land at the time of the purchase and was about to purchase the same under the said Acts, and the provisions of the said Acts shall apply to the sale of additional land under this Act in like manner as if the purchaser had been the tenant of such land at the time of the purchase.

Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall authorise the making to any one tenant of a larger advance than that which the Land Commission is authorised to sanction to any one purchaser of land under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, and the Acts amending the same.