Purchase of Land (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1889

PURCHASE OF LAND (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1889

CHAPTER XIII.

An Act to amend the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, and the Acts amending the same.[1] [24th June 1889.]

[Preamble recites 48 & 49 Vict. c. 73 and amending Acts.]

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.

Application of 48 & 49 Vict. c. 73, s. 6.

45 & 46 Vict. c. 38.

2. Where the vendor is a tenant for life, or a person having the power of a tenant for life within the meaning of those expressions as used in the Settled Land Act, 1882, such vendor shall have all the powers given to the landlord by section six of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, and all the provisions of such section shall apply to the sale.

This section shall apply to the trustees of a settlement in the same manner as it applies to a tenant for life.

Additional land not to exceed 10 acres or 10l. a year Government value.

3. No advance shall be made by the Land Commission to any one purchaser for the purpose of purchasing over ten acres of land under this Act, unless in cases where the land purchased under this Act is valued under the Acts for the valuation of rateable land in Ireland at an annual sum not exceeding ten pounds.

Power to make rules.

44 & 45 Vict. c. 49.

4. Rules for carrying this Act into effect shall be deemed to be rules under the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, and shall be made by the Land Commission, and forms and tables shall be made or adapted by the Land Commission for the purposes of this Act.

Construction of Acts.

48 & 49 Vict. c. 73.

50 & 51 Vict. c. 33.

51 & 52 Vict. c. 49.

5. The Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887, and the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1888, except so far as the same respectively are expressly altered or varied by this Act or are inconsistent therewith, and this Act, shall be construed together as one Act.

Short title.

6. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1889.

[1 Short title, “The Purchase of Land (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1889,” see s. 6. This Act is extended by 1 Edw. 7. c. 30, s. 1.]