Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963

Amendment of Landlord and Tenant Acts, 1931 and 1958.

79.—(1) “business” in the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931 , shall include the carrying out by a planning authority of any of their functions.

(2) Subsection (1) of section 22 of the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931 , is hereby amended by the insertion after paragraph (b) of the following paragraph:

“(bb) that, such landlord being a planning authority within the meaning of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963, such tenement or any part thereof is situate in an area in respect of which the development plan within the meaning of that Act indicates objectives for its development or renewal as being an obsolete area, or”.

(3) Subsection (1) of section 15 of the Landlord and Tenant (Reversionary Leases) Act, 1958 , is hereby amended by the addition of “or alternatively, being a planning authority within the meaning of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963, satisfies the Court that, in case the reversionary lease would be a lease of the whole of the land, the land or any part of the land is situate in an area in respect of which the development plan within the meaning of that Act indicates objectives for its development or renewal as being an obsolete area or that, in case the reversionary lease would be a lease of part of the land, that part or any part of that part is situate in such an area”.