Labourers Act, 1936

Applications for purchase of cottages.

16.—(1) Where:—

(a) a purchase scheme which applies to a cottage in a county health district is in force, and

(b) such cottage is occupied by a person who is a qualified person, and

(c) no rent is due in respect of such cottage,

such person may send an application to the board of health for such county health district for the transfer to him of the interest of such board of health by means of a vesting order made under this Act.

(2) Each of the following persons shall, for the purposes of this section, be a qualified person in relation to a cottage, that is to say:—

(a) a person—

(i) who is the tenant of such cottage, and

(ii) who either is an agricultural labourer or was, when he first became tenant, an agricultural labourer;

(b) a person—

(i) who is the widow, child or other relative of a person who, at the date of his death, was tenant of such cottage and who either was, at the date of his death, an agricultural labourer or was, when he first became tenant, an agricultural labourer, and

(ii) who was at the date of the death resident in such cottage, and

(iii) who is declared by the board of health, in whose county health district such cottage is situate, to be a qualified person.

(3) Every application under this section shall be in the prescribed form and shall contain the prescribed particulars.