6. If the amount of the purchase money of any land acquired Power to incur by the Estates Commissioners under this Act is greater than the loss on resales. total amount of the purchase money at which the land could, in the opinion of the Estates Commissioners, if unimproved, be reasonably resold for the purposes of this Act, the Lord Lieutenant may authorise the Estates Commissioners to incur loss on such resale, to such extent as may be determined by him with the assent of the Treasury, and the amount of that loss shall be paid out of the Land Purchase Aid Fund and credited to the Irish Land Purchase Fund in redemption of an equal amount of the original advance: Provided that the total amount paid out of the Land Purchase Aid Fund under this section shall not exceed one hundred thousand pounds.

of land.

7. No untenanted land shall be acquired compulsorily under Restriction on this Act which is or forms part of any demesne, home farm, town the acquisition park, within the meaning of the Land Law (Ireland) Acts, garden, or pleasure ground, or which is the property of a railway or canal company, and which is, or may be, required for the purposes of their undertaking; and in the exercise of the powers for the compulsory acquisition of land conferred by this Act the Estates Commissioners shall, in the case of untenanted land, avoid all interference with the demesne and amenity of residence of the owner of the land, or with any home farm or land immediately adjoining and customarily occupied with his residence, and land shall be selected with due regard to the general situation and convenience of any other property of the owner so as not to diminish the value thereof.

8. The owner of any land proposed to be acquired under Alternative this Act may offer to sell any other land as an alternative, and site. the Estates Commissioners shall consider any such offer.

9. Where any land is compulsorily acquired under this Act Saving of all sporting rights theretofore vested in the owner of the land sporting rights. shall, if he so desires, be expressly reserved to him.

s. 91.

10. Section ninety-one of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Incorporation Act, 1845, which makes provision in case of refusal to deliver of 8 Vict. c. 18. possession of lands, is hereby incorporated with this Act, and in construing the said section as so incorporated this Act shall be deemed to be the special Act and the Estates Commissioners shall be deemed to be the promoters of the undertaking.

11. (1) So long as a parcel of land, provided out of land Restraint on acquired under this Act, and sold to an evicted tenant, is subject transfer of holdings and to an annuity under the Land Purchase Acts, the interest of the protection in purchaser in the land shall not be transferred on a voluntary case of banksale without the consent of the Land Commission.

(2) No parcel of land purchased by an evicted tenant under the Land Purchase Acts shall be made available in any bankruptcy, or by any other process or proceeding of law, to pay, satisfy, or discharge, in whole or in part, any debt contracted or

ruptcy, &c.

Protection of

incurred by such evicted tenant prior to the date on which the parcel of land became vested in him.

12. No farming stock or other chattels provided for an farm stock, &c. evicted tenant by means of a grant or loan under the Act of 1903, shall be made available in any bankruptcy, or by any other process or proceeding of law, to pay, satisfy, or discharge, in whole or in part, any debt contracted or incurred by such evicted tenant prior to the date on which the parcel of land purchased by him became vested in him.

Advances to new tenants.

Surplus lands.

Application of
Acts.

Tenure of office by Estates Com. missioners.

Expenses of improvement in case of land

sold to evicted

tenant by owner of estate.

13. Advances under the Land Purchase Acts may be made for the purchase of parcels of land by any new tenants to whom this Act applies, in like manner as if they were mentioned in section two of the Act of 1903.

14. Any land acquired under this Act which is not required for the purposes of this Act, after having been offered to the person from whom it was acquired, may, if the offer is not accepted by him within the prescribed time, be sold under the Land Purchase Acts to any person mentioned in section two of the Act of 1903.

15. The Land Purchase Acts shall apply, in the case of land acquired under this Act, in like manner as if the land were purchased by agreement, with the necessary modifications, and in particular the date of the payment of the purchase money into the Bank of Ireland shall be substituted for the date of the purchase agreement, and the provisions of section fourteen of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887, with respect to money paid into the Bank of Ireland, shall apply where money is so paid under this Act, and, in the application of section twenty-three of the Act of 1903, the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be substituted for the provisions of that Act specified in the said section.

16. (1) The Estates Commissioners shall hold office by the same tenure as if they were county court judges in Ireland.

(2) Subsection five of section twenty-three of the Act of 1903 is hereby repealed.

17. (1) Regulations made by the Treasury may provide that where the Land Commission have expended money on the improvement of a parcel of land sold by the owner of an estate to a person mentioned in subhead (d) of subsection (1) of section. two of the Act of 1903, and the value of the said parcel has in consequence been increased, the National Debt Commissioners may advance to the Land Commission for repayment to the reserve fund, mentioned in section forty-three of the Act of 1903, such sum as represents the increase of value consequent on the improvement, and such advance shall be repaid by the tenant purchaser as if it were an advance made under the Land Purchase Acts for the purchase of the said parcel.

(2) The annuity payable in respect of an advance made in pursuance of this section shall, in accordance with regulations made by the Treasury, be consolidated and made payable with the purchase annuity payable in respect of the purchase money of the parcel of land.

Board to assist

18. The Congested Districts Board for Ireland may, out of Power to Conany funds at their disposal, make a free grant to any tenant gested Districts reinstated by them in a holding, his tenancy in which had been evicted tendetermined, for the purpose of assisting him to rebuild or repair ants. any buildings on the holding, or to purchase stock or seed.

19. The provisions of this Act conferring powers for the Duration of acquisition of land and for the determination of tenancies shall Act. continue in force for four years after the passing of this Act, and as regards any matters then pending before the Court of Appeal or the Judicial Commissioner until the said matters are finally determined.

20. This Act may be cited as the Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Short title, &c. Act, 1907, and shall be construed as one with Part One of the

Irish Land Act, 1903, in this Act referred to as "the Act of 3 Edw. 7. c. 37. 1903," and may be cited with the Land Purchase Acts.

TABLE II.

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TABLE

OF

The TITLES of the LOCAL and PRIVATE Acts (including the PUBLIC ACTS of a Local Character) passed during the Session (arranged according to chapter) 7 EDWARD 7.-A.D. 1907.

LOCAL ACTS.

The Titles to which the Letter P. is prefixed are Public Acts of a Local Character.

ROYAL ASSENT, 29th April 1907.

P. i. AN Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1899 relating to Portobello and Musselburgh Tramways (Port Seton Deviation). (Portobello and Musselburgh Tramways (Port Seton Deviation) Order Confirmation.)

ii. An Act to make provision with reference to the substitution of a memorandum and articles of association for the existing constitution and regulations of the Royal Insurance Company and for extending its objects and to repeal in part the Royal Insurance Company's Act 1891 and for other purposes. (Royal Insurance Company's.)

ROYAL ASSENT, 4th July 1907.

iii. An Act to extend the time for the compulsory purchase of lands for and completion of tramways and other works authorised by the West Riding Tramways Act 1904. (West Riding Tramways.)

A a