Housing Amendment Act, 1948

Purchase scheme under the Labourers Act, 1936, not to be made in certain case.

34.—(1) Where a cottage provided by the council of a county under the Labourers Acts is let to a tenant who is an agricultural labourer within the meaning of the said Acts because:—

(a) he is normally engaged in doing agricultural work on the land of a relative, and

(b) he resided with that relative when he applied for, or became tenant of, such cottage,

such council shall not prepare a purchase scheme under the Labourers Act, 1936 (No. 24 of 1936) in relation to such cottage so long as such tenant is an agricultural labourer only because he is normally engaged in doing agricultural work on the land of a relative.

(2) Where:—

(a) any such tenant ceases to be normally engaged in doing agricultural work on the land of a relative but nevertheless continues to be an agricultural labourer, or

(b) where such cottage ceases to be occupied by any such tenant,

the council of a county may, and shall if the Minister so directs, prepare and submit to the Minister a purchase scheme under the Labourers Act, 1936 (No. 24 of 1936) in relation to such cottage.