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Provision for facilitating resales of land by Congested Districts Board.
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1.—(1.) Where the Congested Districts Board have, whether before or after the passing of this Act, purchased an estate and the tenants of holdings thereon to the extent of not less than three-fourths in number and rateable value so request, the Board may serve a notice on any tenant thereon which shall have the effect of determining his tenancy in his holding as from the date mentioned in the notice, not being less than six months from the service thereof.
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(2.) Every such notice shall contain an undertaking by the Board that they will, within the period mentioned in that behalf in the notice or so soon thereafter as practicable, provide the tenant with a new holding on the same or an adjacent or neighbouring estate, subject to a rent not exceeding that payable by him for his original holding, and of not less value, in respect of the land comprised in the new holding and the buildings and improvements thereon, than the value of the land comprised in the former holding and the buildings and improvements thereon respectively at the date of the purchase of the estate by the Board.
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(3.) If any such tenant is dissatisfied with his new holding or refuses to enter into possession thereof, he may, within four months after he has been served with a notice stating that the Board are prepared forthwith to put him into possession thereof, apply to the county court within the jurisdiction of which the estate is situate, and that court may, subject to rules of court, hear and decide upon the application.
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(4.) If, where the tenant is dissatisfied with the new holding, the Court decides that the value thereof is, in respect of any of the matters aforesaid, less than the value of the former holding, the Court may, after taking into account, in connexion with such inferiority in value, the rent payable for the new holding and every circumstance which the Court considers material, order such compensation as it may deem fit to be paid by the Board to the tenant and, in addition or as an alternative, may order the Board to erect such buildings or make such other improvements on the holding as the Court may think reasonable.
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(5.) Where a tenant refuses to enter into possession of the new holding, the Court may order the payment to him by the Board of such sum as, in the opinion of the Court, is equal to the value of his interest in his former holding.
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(6.) The county court may, upon application, order that such charges, liabilities and equities as affect the tenant's interest in his former holding shall either continue to affect that holding or be transferred to his new holding.
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(7.) Any decision of the county court under this section shall be final, and any notice under this section determining a tenancy may be enforced by a writ of possession of the county court, but no such writ shall be executed in pursuance of this section in the case of any tenant until the Board certify to the sheriff that they are prepared forthwith to put such tenant into possession of his new holding.
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(8.) Where a matter requiring the cognizance of the Court under this section arises in respect of an estate situate within the jurisdiction of more than one county court, the county court within the jurisdiction of which the greater part in rateable value of the estate is situate shall take cognizance of the matter.
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(9.) Every notice under this section shall be served on the tenant affected thereby either personally or by leaving the same at his residence or by transmitting the same by registered letter to his last known address.
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(10.) The Court may award costs to or against any party to any proceedings under this section and, in addition to any other power, may, where of opinion that a reasonable offer for the payment of compensation or the execution of any works has been made by the Board, order a tenant to pay any costs incurred by the Board after the date of the offer. Any costs ordered to be paid by a tenant under this section may be deducted from any compensation payable to him thereunder.
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(11.) Rules of court may regulate the practice and procedure under this section.
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(12.) In this section the expression “estate includes part of an estate.
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