Timber (Ireland) Act, 1888
TIMBER (IRELAND) ACT, 1888 | ||
CHAPTER 37. | ||
An Act to amend the Acts relating to the planting of Timber Trees in Ireland. [13th August 1888.] | ||
BE it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: | ||
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Amendments in the Timber Acts. |
1. From and after the passing of this Act the Act of the session of the Irish Parliament of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of the reign of King George the Third, chapter thirty-nine, intituled “An Act to amend the Acts relating to the planting of Timber Trees,” shall be amended as follows:— | |
44 & 45 Vict. c. 49. | ||
(1.) Every tenant of a holding who has a statutory term therein under the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881 , shall have the same rights and privileges as are conferred by the said Act of King George the Third upon tenants for years exceeding fourteen years unexpired, subject to the conditions imposed by the said Acts. | ||
(2.) The said Act of King George the Third, and the other Acts relating to the planting of timber trees in Ireland, shall extend to and include fruit trees. | ||
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Amendment of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 46. s. 4. |
2. A tenant of a holding under a lease made for a term certain of not less than thirty-one years, or, in cases of leases made before the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy, for a term of a life or lives with or without a concurrent term of years, which leases shall have existed for thirty-one years before the making of the claim, shall be entitled to claim compensation under the fourth section of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870 , in respect of trees planted and registered by him under the provisions of the said Act of King George the Third: Provided always, that no claim may be made under this Act exceeding in amount the value of such improvement at the time the claim is made. | |
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Short title. |
3. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Timber (Ireland) Act, 1888. |