Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949 (c. 75)

1949 c. 75

 

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  Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949 (c. 75)
 

1949 Chapter c. 75

 


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

 
Meaning of "agricultural holding"
1.  Meaning of "agricultural holding."
 
Provisions as to leases
2.  Restriction on letting agricultural land for less than from year to year.
3.  Tacit relocation.
4.  Provisions for securing written leases and for the revision of certain leases
5.  Respective liabilities of landlord and tenant for provision and maintenance of fixed equipment and for payment of insurance premiums.
6.  Provisions supplementary to s.4 and s.5.
7.  Variation of rent
8.  Increases of rent in respect of certain improvements carried out by landlord.
9.  Variation of terms of tenancy as to permanent pasture.
10.  Leases to continue in force notwithstanding variation of terms, etc.
 
Miscellaneous provisions affecting the relationship of landlord and tenant
11.  Certain agreements by incoming tenant to pay compensation due to outgoing tenant to be void.
12.  Freedom of cropping and disposal of produce.
13.  Prohibition of removal of manure, etc., after notice to terminate the tenancy.
14.  Tenant's right to remove fixtures and buildings. .
15.  Compensation for damage by game.
16.  Restriction of landlord's right to penal rent or liquidated damages.
17.  Making of record of condition, etc., of holding.
18.  Power of landlord to enter on holding.
19.  Removal of tenant for non-payment of rent. Bequest of lease.
20.  Right of landlord to object to heir-at-law of tenant succeeding to holding.
21.  Provisions as to payment for implements etc. sold on quitting holding.
22.  Provisions as to arbitration.
23.  Revision of panel of arbiters.
 
Provisions as to notices to quit
24.  Provisions as to giving of notices to quit.
25.  Restrictions on operation of notices to quit.
26.  Provisions as to consents for purposes of preceding section.
27.  Provisions supplementary to s.25 and s.26.
28.  Applications for certificates of bad husbandry.
 
Directions to secure good estate management and good husbandry.
29.  Prevention of deterioration of holding after grant of certificate of band husbandry.
30.  Provisions as to breach of condition attached to consent to operation of notice to quit
31.  Provisions as to notices to quit where holding agreed to be sold.
32.  Notices to quit part of holdings not to be invalid in certain cases.
33.  Tenant's right to treat notice to quit part of holding as notice to quit entire holding.
34.  Reduction of rent where tenant dispossessed of part of holding.
 
Compensation to tenant for disturbance
35.  Right to, and measure of, compensation for disturbance.
 
Compensation to tenant, on termination of tenancy, for improvements begun before 1st November, 1948
36.  Application of sections 37 to 46.
37.  Right of tenant to compensation for old improvements.
38.  Amount of compensation for old improvements.
39.  Compensation for certain old improvements conditional on consent of landlord.
40.  Compensation for certain old improvements conditional on notice to landlord.
41.  Conditions attaching to right to compensation for repairs to buildings.
42.  Agreements as to compensation for old improvements specified in; Part III of Second or Third Schedule.
43.  Compensation in respect of temporary pasture.
44.  Reduction in amount of, or exclusion of right to, compensation for old improvements in certain cases.
45.  Provision as to change of tenancy.
46.  Right to compensation for old improvements of tenant who has paid compensation therefor to outgoing tenant.
 
Compensation to tenant, on termination of tenancy, for improvements begun on or after 1st November, 1948
47.  Application of sections 48 to 55.
48.  Tenant's right to compensation for new improvements.
49.  Amount of compensation for new improvements.
50.  Compensation for Sch. I, Pt. I, improvements conditional on consent of landlord.
51.  Compensation for Sch. I, Pt. II, improvements conditional on notice to landlord.
52.  Compensation for Sch. I, Pt. II, improvements conditional on approval of Secretary of State in certain cases.
53.  Compensation in respect of temporary pasture.
54.  Provision as to change of tenancy.
55.  Right to compensation for new improvements of tenant who has paid compensation therefor to outgoing tenant.
 
Compensation to tenant, on termination of tenancy, for continuous adoption of special standard of farming
56.  Compensation for continuous adoption of special standard of farming.
 
Compensation to landlord, on termination of tenancy, for deterioration of holding
57.  Compensation to landlord for deterioration, etc., of particular parts of holding.
58.  Compensation to landlord for general deterioration of holding.
59.  Provisions supplementary to s. 57 and s. 58.
60.  Compensation provisions of this Act to apply to parts of holdings in certain cases.
61.  Determination of claims for compensation where holding is divided.
62.  Adjustment of compensation in respect of ploughing grants.
63.  Compensation not to be payable for things done in compliance with this Act.
64.  Extent to which compensation recoverable under agreements.
 
Special provisions affecting market gardens as regards compensation and fixtures
65.  Effect of agreement to let or treat an agricultural holding as a market garden.
66.  Power of Secretary of State in default of agreement to treat an agricultural holding as a market garden.
67.  Agreements as to compensation relating to market gardens.
 
Settlement of claims between landlord and tenant on termination
68.  Settlement of claims by arbitration.
 
Recovery of sums due under this Act
69.  Recovery of compensation and other sums due.
70.  Power of tenant to obtain charge on holding in respect of compensation.
 
Supplementary provisions
71.  Representations to the Secretary of State.
72.  References to the Land Court.
73.  Proceedings of the Land Court.
74.  Matters to be referred to arbitration.
75.  Provisions as to arbitrations.
76.  Constitution of panel of arbiters, and provisions as to remuneration of arbiter.
77.  Appointment of arbiter in cases to which the Secretary of State is a party.
78.  Determination of questions by Land Court in lieu of arbitration.
79.  Power of Secretary of State to vary First and Fourth Schedules to this Act.
80.  Power of limited owners to give consents, etc.
81.  Power of heir of entail to apply entailed moneys for improvements.
82.  Power of landlord to obtain charge on holding in respect of compensation, etc., paid by him.
83.  Power of land improvement companies to advance money.
84.  Appointment of guardian to landlord or tenant in certain cases.
85.  Validity of consents, etc.
 
Provisions as to Crown land
86.  Application of Act to Crown land.
87.  Determination of matters relating to holdings of which the Secretary of State is landlord or tenant.
 
General
88.  Expenses and receipts.
89.  Provisions as to entry and inspection.
90.  Service of notices, etc.
91.  Prohibition of appeal from sheriff substitute.
92.  Revocation and variation of orders.
93.  Interpretation.
94.  Amendments of other Acts.
95.  Construction of references in other Acts to holdings as defined by the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1923.
96.  Improvements carried out before 1909.
97.  Repeal of enactments.
98.  Provisions as to tenants quitting before commencement of this Act, or thereafter in consequence of notice given, etc., before 1st November, 1948.
99.  General savings.
100.  Saving for other rights, etc.
101.  Short title and extent.
 
   
  First Schedule   Improvements begun on or after 1st November, 1948, for which compensation is payable.
  Second Schedule   Improvements begun before 31st July, 1931, for which compensation is payable.
  Third Schedule   Improvements begun on or after 31st July, 1931, and beforfe 1st November, 1948, for which compensation is payable.
  Fourth Schedule   Market garden improvements for which compensation may be payable.
  Fifth Schedule   Matters for which provision is to be made in written leases.
  Sixth Schedule   Provisions as to arbitrations.
  Seventh Schedule   Amendments of other Acts.
  Eigth Schedule   Enactments repealed.
 
 
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