Agriculture

landlord, compensation and tenant

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Unreasonable the landlord, without good and sufficient cause, and for reasons inconsistent with good estate management, terminates the tenancy, or refuses to renew after request in writing at least one year before the expiration of the tenancy, or where it is proved that an increased rent is demanded because of the increased value from the tenant's own im provements, and the tenant quits, the latter is entitled to extra compensation, besides any compensation for improvements, and notwithstanding any agree ment, for loss or expense unavoidably incurred through the sale or removal of his household goods, farm implements, produce or stock used in connection with his holding. But to recover compensation under this section the tenant must—(a) give the landlord a, reasonable opportunity to value such goods, implements, produce, and stock ; (b) two months after notice to quit or refusal to renew give the landlord notice in writing of his intention to claim under this provision. If the ten .nt has died within three months before notice to quit or refusal to renew a lease "for years," or the claim for compensation is not made within three months after quitting, no compensation is payable.

Any differences, in default of agreement, are to be settled by arbitration.

In regard to market gardens, the provision for compensation for im provements is to apply to improvements executed before the dates of the Market Gardeners Acts, as well as to improvements executed after those dates. The consent of the landlord is not required for repairs to buildings necessary for the proper working of the holding, other than repairs which the tenant is under obligation to execute, but the tenant must give the landlord notice in writing before beginning such repairs, with particulars, and he can do them only if the landlord fails to do so within a reasonable time.

At the beginning of any tenancy, after the 1st January 1909, if either party so requires, a record of the condition of the buildings, fences, gates, roads, drains, ditches, and cultivation is to be made, three months after the commencement of the tenancy, by a person appointed, in default of agree ment, by the Board of Agriculture, the cost in such case to be borne equally by the landlord and tenant.

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