§ 11. Application to Scotland and Ireland. 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 49. 8 Edw. 7, c. 64. 48 & 49 Vict. c. 77. 11.-(1.) This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modification: (a) The provisions of this Act other than the provisions of the section thereof relating to rules for the assessment of compensation shall apply to the determination of any question which, under subsection (11) of section seven or section seventeen of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Act, 1911, is referred to arbitration, as if the Board of Agriculture for Scotland were the acquiring authority, and as if in the said sub-section (11) there were substituted for the Lord Ordinary on the Bills and the Lord Ordinary, except where the Lord Ordinary is therein last referred to, such person as may be prescribed by rules made by the Reference Committee for Scotland; and the provisions of that Act, including the Second Schedule to the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1908, as thereby applied, shall in relation to such determination have effect subject to the aforesaid provisions of this Act: (b) "High Court" means either division of the Court of Session; "arbitrator" means arbiter, and (2.) This Act shall apply to Ireland subject to the following modification: Nothing in this Act shall affect the determination of the price or compensation to be paid on the compulsory acquisition of land by the Irish Land Commission or Congested Districts Board for Ireland under any statute or the special provisions contained in the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1885, and the enactments amending the same, with respect to the jurisdiction of the Irish Land Commission in cases where land is taken compulsorily under those provisions for a term of years. $ 12. ment and 12.-(1.) This Act may be cited as the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, and shall Short title, come into operation on the first day of September nine- commenceteen hundred and nineteen, but shall not apply to the interpretadetermination of any question where before that date the tion. appointment of an arbitration, valuation, or other tribunal to determine the question has been completed, or a jury has been empanelled for the purpose. (2.) For the purposes of this Act, the expression "land" includes water and any interests in land or water and any easement or right in, to, or over land or water, and "public authority" means any body of persons, not trading for profit, authorised by or under any Act to carry on a railway, canal. dock, water or other public undertaking.1 (1) In Metropolitan Water Board v. Berton (or Dulwich College) (90 L. J. Ch. 57; [1921]1 Ch. 299) it was held that a water undertaking authorised by Act of Parliament, whose income is applied only in keeping down expenses, in paying interest on stock, and in providing for a sinking fund for the redemption of its liabilities is a public authority " within the meaning of this sub-section, and the assessment of land compulsorily acquired by it is to be made under this Act, and not under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. THE ALLOTMENTS ACT, 1922. [12 & 13 GEO. 5, c. 51.] An Act to amend the law relating to Allotments. Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by § 1. Deter mination of tenancies of gardens. 1.-(1.) Where land is let on a tenancy for use by the tenant as an allotment garden 1 or is let to any local authority or association for the purpose of being sub-let allotment for such use the tenancy of the land or any part shall not (except as hereinafter provided) be terminable by the landlord by notice to quit or re-entry, notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, except by— (a) a six months' or longer notice to quit expiring on or before the sixth day of April or on or after the twenty-ninth day of September in any year; or (b) re-entry, after three months' previous notice in writing to the tenant, under a power of re-entry contained in or affecting the contract of tenancy on account of the land being required for building, mining, or any other industrial purpose or for roads or sewers necessary in connection with any of those purposes; 2 or re-entry under a power in that behalf contained in or affecting the contract of tenancy in the case § 1. or company, for any purpose (not being the use of the land for agriculture) for which it was acquired or held by the corporation, or company, or has been appropriated under any statutory provision, but so that, except in a case of notice in writing of emergency, three months' the intended re-entry shall be given to the tenant; 2 or (d) re-entry under a power in that behalf contained in or affecting the contract of tenancy, in the case of land let by a local authority (being land which was acquired by the local authority before the passing of this Act under the Housing Acts, 1890 to 1921 3) on account of the land being required by the local authority for the purposes of those Acts, and, in the case of other land let by a local authority, after three months' previous notice in writing to the tenant on account of the land being required by the local authority for a purpose (not being the use of land for agriculture) for which it was acquired by the local authority, or has been appropriated under any statutory provision; 2 or (e) re-entry for non-payment of rent or breach of any term or condition of the tenancy or on account of the tenant becoming bankrupt or compounding with his creditors, or where the tenant is an association, on account of its liquidation.4 (2.) This section shall apply to a tenancy current at the date of the passing of this Act, but not so as to affect the operation of any notice to quit given, or proceedings for recovery of possession commenced, before that date. (3.) Where under any contract of tenancy to which this section applies, made before the passing of this Act, the tenancy is either by express provision or by implication made terminable by the landlord by notice to quit expiring on a date between the sixth day of April and the |