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An Act to further amend the Law relating to the Occupation and Ownership of Land in Ireland, and for other purposes relating thereto. [14th August 1896.]

E 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:

1.—(1.) Where the court fix a fair rent for a holding, the court shall ascertain and record in the form of a schedule, unless both landlord and tenant shall otherwise request—


 * (a) the annual sum which should be the fair rent of the holding on the assumption that all improvements thereon were made or acquired by the landlord;


 * (b) the condition as to cultivation, deterioration, or otherwise of the holding and the buildings thereon;


 * (c) the improvements made wholly or partly by the tenant or at his cost, and with respect to each such improvement —


 * (i) the nature, character, and present capital value thereof, and the increased letting value due thereto;


 * (ii) the date (so near as can be ascertained) at which the same was made; and


 * (iii) the deduction from the rent made on account thereof;


 * (d) the extent (if any) to which the landlord has paid or compensated the tenant in respect of each such improvement;


 * (e) the improvements made wholly or partly by or at the cost of, or acquired by, the landlord;


 * (f) such other matters in relation to the holding as may have been taken into account in fixing the fair rent thereof or as may be prescribed; and


 * (g) the fair rent of the holding;

and the said schedule shall be in the form set out in the First Schedule to this Act, or in such other form as may be prescribed, and a certified copy of the record shall on the prescribed application be sent by post to each party, and the record shall be admissible in evidence on its mere production from the proper