Sect. 42. Sect. 43. "Companies Acts" means the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1880, and any Act amending the same: "Sheriff" includes sheriff substitute. The designations of landlord and tenant shall continue to apply to the parties until the conclusion of any proceedings taken under this Act in respect of compensation for improvements. This corresponds to sect. 61 of the English Act. There are important differences in the definition of landlord and tenant. The definition of landlord or tenant is confined to tenant in the English Act, and the definition of absolute owner is omitted. The definition of manures in the English Act is not included in the Scotch Act. 43. This Act may be cited for all purposes as Short title the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1883, and shall apply to Scotland only. of Act. Corresponds to sects. 63 and 64 of the English Act. Part I. SCHEDULE. PART I. IMPROVEMENTS TO WHICH CONSENT OF LANDLORD IS REQUIRED. (1.) Erection or enlargement of building. (2.) Formation of silos. (3.) Laying down of permanent pasture. (4.) Making of water meadows or works of irrigation. (5.) Making of gardens. (6.) Making or improving of roads or bridges. (8.) Making of permanent fences. (9.) Reclamation of waste land. (10.) Weiring or embanking of lands and sluices against floods. This corresponds to the 1st schedule to the English Act, except that four items included in the English Act, making and planting osier beds, planting hops, planting orchards and fruit bushes, and warping land, are omitted. In the English Act making fences is the item; here it is making permanent fences, and the item of weiring is added to embanking land. PART II. IMPROVEMENT IN RESPECT OF WHICH NOTICE TO LANDLORD IS REQUIRED. Part I. Part II. (11.) Drainage. PART III. IMPROVEMENTS TO WHICH CONSENT OF LANDLORD IS NOT REQUIRED. (12.) Boning of land with undissolved bones. (13.) Claying of land or spreading blaes upon land. (14.) Liming of land. (15.) Marling of land. (16.) Application to land of purchased artificial or other purchased manure. (17.) Consumption on the holding by cattle, sheep or pigs of cake or other feeding stuff not produced on the holding. The second part is identical with the second part of the English Act. In the third part the English Act includes chalking and clay-burning, which are omitted here; while in addition to claying land, spreading blaes on land is added here, which is not in the English Act. Part III. Duchy of Cornwall Management Act, 1863, sect. 8 14 & 15 Vict. c. 25, s. 3 (Fixtures) 2 Will. & Mary, sess. 1 c. 5, s. 2 (Distress) PAGE 328 329 331 333 334 335 336 FORMS under the Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1883 337 STATUTES. 318. Power to Treasury to direct cost of im- prove come. CROWN LANDS ACT, 1866. Pages 261, WHERE at any time, after the passing of this Act, any operation, work, matter or thing, being within the description of the improvement of land contained in section 9 of the Act of the session of the twentyseventh and twenty-eight years of her Majesty's reign, chap. 114 (The Improvement of Land Act, 1864), is affected or done in or with reference to any part of the possessions and land revenues of the Crown under the management of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the Commissioners of Woods), the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the Commissioners of the Treasury), may, if they think fit, direct with respect to any such operation, work, matter or thing, that the costs, charges and expenses of and connected with the same shall be charged as a principal sum to the account of the capital of the land revenue of the crown, but, in every case where such direction is given, the principal sum so charged shall be repaid out of the income of the land revenue of the crown, in such manner and within such time as in each case the Commissioners of the Treasury from time to time direct; so, nevertheless, that in every case provision be made for the complete repayment of principal out of income as aforesaid, within a period not exceeding thirty years from the time at which the principal sum becomes a charge as aforesaid. |