Labourers Act, 1936

Extension of definition of agricultural labourer.

3.—(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 93 of the Irish Land Act, 1903 , and of proviso (iii) to sub-section (1) of section 1 of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1919, a person shall not be prevented from being an agricultural labourer within the meaning of the Principal Acts solely by reason of the fact that he is in occupation of more than one quarter of an acre of land.

(2) In this Act (other than this section) the expression “agricultural labourer” means an agricultural labourer within the meaning of the Principal Acts as amended by this section.