Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881

Compensation for disturbance.

6. [Repeal of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 46. s. 3 (in part) and s. 13.] The compensation payable under the said section three in the case of a tenant disturbed in his holding by the act of a landlord after the passing of this Act shall be as follows in the case of holdings—

Where the rent is thirty pounds or under, a sum not exceeding seven years rent:

Where the rent is above thirty pounds and not exceeding fifty pounds, a sum not exceeding five years rent:

Where the rent is above fifty pounds and not exceeding one hundred pounds, a sum not exceeding four years rent:

Where the rent is above one hundred pounds and not exceeding three hundred pounds, a sum not exceeding three years rent:

Where the rent is above three hundred pounds and not exceeding five hundred pounds, a sum not exceeding two years rent:

Where the rent is above five hundred hundred pounds, a sum not exceeding one year’s rent.

Any tenant in a higher class of the scale may, at his option, claim compensation under a lower class, provided such compensation shall not exceed the sum to which he would be entitled under such lower class on the assumption that the rent of his holding was reduced to the sum (or where two sums are mentioned, the higher sum) stated in such lower class.

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Amendment of Law as to Compensation for Improvements.