Be it enacted by the King’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:
Pensions for blind persons over 50.                              1. Every blind person who has attained the age of fifty shall be entitled to receive and to continue to receive such pension as, under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1919, he would be entitled to receive if he had attained the age of seventy, and the provisions of those Acts (including the provisions as to expenses, but excluding the provisions of subsection (2) of section ten of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, relating to the giving of notices by registrars of births and deaths) shall apply in all respects to such persons as if for the first statutory condition there were substituted a condition that the person must have attained the age of fifty, and be so blind as to be unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential, and as if for references to “seventy” and “fifty” there were respectively substituted references to “fifty” and “thirty.”

8 Edw. 7 c. 40.
Power of local authorities to promote welfare of blind persons.  2.—(1) It shall be the duty of the council of every county and every county borough, whether in combination with any other council or councils or otherwise, to make arrangements to the satisfaction of the Minister of Health for promoting the welfare of blind persons ordinarily resident within their area, and such council may for this purpose provide and maintain or contribute towards the provision and maintenance of workshops, hostels, homes, or other places for the reception of blind persons whether within or without their area and, with the approval of the Minister of Health, do such other things as may appear to them desirable for the purpose aforesaid. The Council shall, within twelve months after the passing of this Act, prepare and submit to the Minister of Health a scheme for the exercise of their powers under this section.

51 & 52 Vict. c. 41.
56 & 57 Vict. c. 42.
(2) The expenses incurred by a council under this section shall be defrayed in the case of a county council out of the county fund as expenses for general county purposes and in the case of a county borough council out of the borough fund or borough rate.
(3) A council may borrow for the purposes of this section in the case of a county council in accordance with the Local Government Act, 1888, and in the case of a county borough council, in accordance with the Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1908, but the money so borrowed by the council of a county borough shall be borrowed on the security of the borough fund or borough rate, and money borrowed for the purposes of this section shall not be reckoned as part of the debt of the council for the purposes of any provision limiting the powers of borrowing by the council.
(4) A council may exercise any of the powers conferred by this section (other than the power of raising a rate or of borrowing money) through a committee of the council, and may appoint as members of the committee persons specially qualified by training or experience in matters relating to the blind who are not members of the council, but not less than two-thirds of the members of every such committee shall consist of members of the council, and a committee established under this section may, subject to any direction of the council, appoint such and so many sub-committees consisting either or partly of members of the committee, as the committee thinks fit.
(5) This section shall apply to the City of London as if it were a county borough and the common council were the council of a county borough, and any expenses of the common council under this section shall be defrayed out of the general rate.
(6) Nothing in this section shall affect the powers and duties of local education authorities under the Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 1893, or the Education Acts, 1870 to 1919, and local education authorities in the exercise of their duty to contribute to the establishment of a national system of public education available for all persons capable of profiting thereby shall make or otherwise secure adequate and suitable provision for the technical education of blind persons ordinarily resident in their area who are capable of receiving and being benefited by such education.
(7) For the purposes of this section, a blind person who becomes an inmate of an institution for the blind after the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to continue to be ordinarily resident in the area in which he was ordinarily resident before he became an inmate of such institution.

Charities for the blind.                                         3.—(1) The War Charities Act, 1916, shall apply to charities for the blind as if it were herein re-enacted and in terms made applicable to such charities, subject, however, to the following modifications:—
6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 43.
6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 43.
(a) The registration authority shall, as respects the City of London, be the common council of the City of London, and elsewhere the county council or county borough council;
(b) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (3) of section two of the Act, the registration authority may refuse to register a charity if they are satisfied that its objects are adequately attained by a charity registered under the Act;
(c) Notwithstanding anything in section four of the Act, the fee payable on registration of a charity may exceed ten shillings, but shall not exceed two guineas;
(d) Regulations made by the Charity Commissioners under section four of the Act shall be subject to the approval of the Minister of Health instead of a Secretary of State;
(e) Where a charity is removed from the register, the Charity Commissioners may exercise, in relation to the charity, any powers which they are authorised by section six of the Act to exercise in relation to charities registered under the Act for the purposes of an appeal thereunder; and
(f) Where any of the conditions mentioned in section three of the Act are not complied with in respect of any registered charity, any person who, by regulations made under section four of the Act, may be made responsible for the observance of those conditions shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.
(2) Regulations may be made by the Charity Commissioners subject to the approval of the Minister of Health for providing that in the case of any charities for the blind which have, before the passing of this Act, been registered under the War Charities Act, 1916, the registration under that Act shall have effect as registration by the appropriate registration authority under this Act and for making such consequential provisions as may be necessary for that purpose.
(3) In this section “charity for the blind” means any fund, institution, or association (whether established before or after the commencement of this Act) having or professing to have for its object or for one of its objects the provision of assistance in any form to blind persons or any other charitable purpose relating to blind persons, but shall not include any fund, institution, or association where any such object as aforesaid is subsidiary only to the principal purposes of the charity.

Application to Scotland and Ireland.                             4.—(1) This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modifications:—
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 48.
8 Edw. 7. c. 67.
(a) Subsections (2) and (3) of section 2 and paragraphs (d) and (e) of subsection (1) of section 3 shall not apply;
(b) The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (6) of section 2—
(6) Education Authorities under the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, shall make or otherwise secure adequate and suitable provision for the technical education of blind persons ordinarily resident in their areas who are capable of receiving and being benefited by such education.
(c) The expression “county borough” has the meaning assigned thereto in section one hundred and thirty-two of the Children Act, 1908, and the provisions of subsection (21) of that section so far as applicable to county and town councils shall apply for the purposes of this Act with the substitution of references to this Act for references to the Children Act, 1908, or any section thereof;
(d) References to the Minister of Health and to the Charity Commissioners shall be construed as references to the Scottish Board of Health.
(2) This Act shall apply to Ireland subject to the following modifications:—
(a) References to the Minister of Health shall be construed as references to the Local Government Board for Ireland;
(b) The expenses incurred by a council under this Act shall be defrayed out of the poor rate, and in the case of a county council shall be raised as a county at large charge, and a council may borrow for the purposes of this Act under Article 22 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898.

Short title and commencement.                                    5. This Act may be cited as the Blind Persons Act, 1920, and shall come into operation on the tenth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty.


Grand juries in Ireland may appoint commissioners to sell or exchange premises that have been used for court houses, gaols, &c.

WHEREAS new court houses, gaols, and county infirmaries have been built or may hereafter be built in many counties in Ireland, and it is necessary to enable grand juries to dispose of the ground on which such old court houses, gaols, and county infirmaries stand, and of any buildings or materials thereon, and to grant a sufficient title thereto: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King’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, that in all cases where the grand jury of any county or county of a city or county of a town shall have procured ground to build or erect a new court house, gaol, or county infirmary, and that the same is completed and in use, and that such grand jury shall conceive it expedient to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of the land occupied by or in any way appertaining to such old court house, gaol, or county infirmary, or any building thereon, in any county or county of a city or county of a town in Ireland, it shall and may be lawful for the grand jury at any assizes for any such county or any county of a city or county of a town in which such old court house, gaol, or county infirmary is situated, to appoint and nominate any number of persons not less than five as commissioners to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any such ground, or of any building or materials thereon; and such commissioners or any three of them so appointed shall have full power to sell by auction, to exchange, or otherwise dispose of any such ground, or any building thereon, or to dispose of separately or together of any timber, slates, stones, bricks, or other materials thereon, and to make contracts and agreements for and concerning the same, to sign leases or deeds conveying the same, and to do all matters and things requisite for carrying such agreements into due execution for and on behalf of such county, county of a city, or county of a town, such agreement nevertheless and the leases and deeds conveying the same to be laid before the grand jury at the following assizes, and, if approved of by such grand jury, the foreman is to affix his name thereto; and the money arising from such sale of such ground or materials shall be paid to the treasurer of such county, county of city, or county of a town, and by him placed to the credit of the county at large, and may be disposed of by the grand jury for or in aid of any new court house, goal, or county infirmary, or in such other manner as by law they shall be entitled, for the general advantage of such county or county of a city or county of a town at large.

Peaceable possession for sixty years deemed a good title.  2. And . . . whereas in many cases there is much difficulty in making out a title to grounds that have been so occupied by such old court houses, gaols, and county infirmaries, although there has not appeared any claimant thereto for many years: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid that all such ground or any buildings thereon that has been occupied as aforesaid for sixty years and upwards in a peaceable and quiet manner and without any claimant on record in any court of law, such peaceable and quiet possession for sixty years shall be considered as a good and valid title; and such commissioners so appointed as aforesaid or any three of them shall have full power and authority to convey the interest, fee, and inheritance thereof in as large and as ample a manner as the same was held and enjoyed by the county; and such conveyance by deed, lease, or other instrument signed by such commissioners, or any three of them, and approved of by the grand jury as aforesaid, shall be deemed, taken, and considered as a good, sufficient and valid title in law, said grand jury nevertheless being first satisfied as to the due payment of the purchase money to the treasurer as aforesaid, or as to any other valuable consideration that may have been agreed for thereto; and it shall and may be lawful for such grand jury to grant a presentment for all reasonable expences attending the disposal and conveyance of such ground and materials.

Presentment for expences of sale, &c.


Be it enacted by the King’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:
Power to acquire land compulsorily.                                                 1.—(1) If it appears to the Estates Commissioners that it is expedient to acquire any land for the purposes of this Act, and if they have offered to the person appearing to them to be the owner of the land a price which appears to them to represent the value thereof, and he has not within the prescribed time accepted the offer, they may, subject to the provisions as to appeal contained in this Act, acquire that land compulsorily for those purposes in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and shall declare any land so acquired to be an estate.

(2) The expression “the purposes of this Act” means the provision of parcels of land for—
(a) evicted tenants to whom this Act applies, that is to say, persons mentioned in paragraph (d) of subsection one of section two of the Act of 1903, who, or whose predecessors, were evicted from their holdings before the passing of the said Act in consequence of proceedings taken by or on behalf of their landlords, and who made application to the Estates Commissioners before the first day of May nineteen hundred and seven to be put in occupation of holdings, and whom those Commissioners consider to be fit and proper persons to become purchasers under the Land Purchase Acts, not exceeding two thousand in all; and
(b) new tenants to whom this Act applies, that is to say, tenants, and persons nominated by the Estates Commissioners as personal representatives of tenants, of holdings formerly occupied by evicted tenants to whom this Act applies.
(3) No tenanted land shall be acquired compulsorily unless it is in the occupation of a new tenant to whom this Act applies, and unless the Estates Commissioners, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, holding, and district, and to the cost involved, consider it expedient that the evicted tenant should be reinstated as a purchaser of that land: Provided that no tenanted land shall be acquired compulsorily which is in the possession or occupation of a bonâ fide tenant using or cultivating the same as an ordinary farmer in accordance with proper methods of husbandry.
(4) No land shall be acquired compulsorily which is subject to an annuity for the repayment of an advance under the Land Purchase Acts.
(5) For the purposes of this enactment a person shall be deemed to be a tenant notwithstanding that he may have agreed to purchase his holding, if the agreement was entered into after the first day of May nineteen hundred and seven, and if the holding has not become vested in him as a purchaser under the Land Purchase Acts.

Provisions respecting acquisition of land and purchase money.                       2. Where it is proposed that any land shall be acquired compulsorily under this Act—
44 & 45 Vict. c. 49.
(1) The Estates Commissioners shall publish a notice to that effect in the “Dublin Gazette” containing the prescribed particulars with respect to the land, and calling upon any persons interested in the land, who may object to the acquisition thereof under this Act, to lodge in the office of the Land Commission, within the prescribed period, a statement of the grounds of their objection:
(2) A copy of the aforesaid notice shall be served by the Estates Commissioners as soon as may be, in the prescribed manner, upon the person who appears to them to be the owner of the land, and upon all persons known or believed by them to be interested therein:
(3) At any time after the publication of the aforesaid notice, any inspectors and other persons appointed by the Estates Commissioners may enter upon the land, and do all such things as may be necessary for the purpose of enabling the Commissioners to determine whether the land is suitable for the purposes of this Act and to estimate the price thereof:
(4) If it appears to the Estates Commissioners, after considering the report of their inspectors and any objections to the acquisition of the land lodged as aforesaid, that the land is suitable for the purposes of this Act, and that no valid objection has been raised to such acquisition, they may, if they think fit, make an offer to the person appearing to them to be the owner of the land for the purchase thereof at such price as appears to them primâ facie to be a reasonable price:
(5) The Estates Commissioners shall, upon making such offer, give notice in the prescribed manner to all persons known or believed by them to be interested in the land of their intention to acquire the same at the aforesaid price, unless within the prescribed period a petition is presented to the Land Commission by any person interested praying that the land shall not be so acquired without further inquiry:
(6) If no petition has been presented, or if every such petition has been withdrawn, the purchase money shall, within six months after the expiration of the time limited for the presentation of petitions, be paid into the Bank of Ireland by the Land Commission and the Estates Commissioners shall make an order vesting the land in the Land Commission:
(7) If a petition has been presented, and has not been withdrawn, the petition and all questions arising thereon shall, subject to the provisions of section twenty-three of the Act of 1903 with respect to questions of law, be heard and determined by the Estates Commissioners, or any two of them, and their decision shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be final:
(8) Any person aggrieved by any determination of the Estates Commissioners, fixing the price of the land proposed to be acquired, may within the prescribed time appeal to the Judicial Commissioner, who shall hear in the prescribed manner and determine the appeal:
(9) The powers conferred upon the Land Commission by section forty-eight of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, may be exercised by the Judicial Commissioner in the case of all proceedings coming before him in pursuance of the last preceding subsection:
(10) The powers and duties of the Judicial Commissioner under this section shall not be exercised and performed by any other judge appointed as an additional Judicial Commissioner save during the absence through illness of the Judicial Commissioner:
(11) Any person aggrieved by any determination of the Estates Commissioners of a question arising under the provisions of this Act imposing restrictions on the acquisition of land may, within the prescribed time, appeal, at his option, either to the Judge of Assize of the county in which the land is situate, or to a Judge of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court placed on a rota for the purposes of this Act:
(12) The Judge shall have power to hear and determine all questions of law and fact arising on any such appeal (other than a question of law referred to the Judicial Commissioner under section twenty-three of the Act of 1903), and may make such order as to costs as he may think fit, and his decision on all questions heard by him shall be final:
(13) Rules of the Supreme Court shall provide for the forming of a rota for the purposes of this Act, and for the procedure to be adopted on the hearing of any such last-mentioned appeals, and for the consolidation and transfer where necessary of such appeals:
(14) Subject to the determination of all questions arising on the petition, the purchase money shall, within the prescribed time, be paid into the Bank of Ireland, and the vesting order shall be made, unless the Estates Commissioners, within the prescribed time, serve a notice on the person appearing to them to be the owner of the land that they do not intend to make the order.

Publication of proceedings and returns.                                             3.—(1) The Estates Commissioners shall publish particulars of all cases in which an evicted tenant, or a person nominated by them to be the personal representative of a deceased evicted tenant, has been or may be hereafter, with their assistance, reinstated as a purchaser of his or his predecessor’s former holding or provided with a new parcel of land under the Land Purchase Act.

(2) Such particulars shall be in the form of a quarterly return, which shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and shall contain such particulars of each case as may be prescribed, including the particulars set forth in the schedule to this Act, if and so far as it may be practicable to furnish the same.

Power to determine tenancies.                                                       4.—(1) Where the Estates Commissioners have acquired any tenanted land under this Act, they may serve in the prescribed manner a notice on any new tenant thereon, which shall have the effect of determining the tenancy in the holding in his occupation as from the date mentioned in the notice, not being less than six months from the service thereof and ending either on the first day of May or on the first day of November.

(2) Unless the new tenant has applied for compensation as herein-after mentioned, the Estates Commissioners shall, within three months from the service of the aforesaid notice, offer to put the new tenant forthwith into possession of a parcel of land which will be subject to an annuity under the Land Purchase Acts not exceeding in amount the rent payable by him for the said holding, and which is, in the opinion of the Estates Commissioners, of not less value, in respect of the land comprised therein, than the value of the land comprised in the said holding, and which, in the opinion of the said Commissioners, is as suitably provided with buildings and other requirements as the said holding, and shall at the same time offer to such new tenant such sum as may be reasonably necessary to cover any expense or loss incidental to the removal of himself and his family as well as of his crops, stock, and other chattels to such parcel of land.
(3) If the new tenant is dissatisfied with the parcel of land offered to him, or refuses to enter into possession thereof, the Estates Commissioners shall, after hearing him, or giving him an opportunity of being heard, award such sum as appears to them to be full compensation for his interest in the said holding in like manner as if the holding had been resumed by the landlord under the powers in that behalf conferred by section five of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881.
(4) Where the new tenant applies within the prescribed time for compensation under the last preceding subsection, the Estates Commissioners may, if they think proper, award him such compensation without having offered to put him into possession of a parcel of land.
(5) A tenant to whom compensation has been awarded under this section shall not be compelled to quit his holding until the amount of compensation due to him has been paid or deposited in the prescribed manner.
(6) Where a new tenant is put into possession of a parcel of land the Estates Commissioners may order that such charges, liabilities and equities, as affected the tenant’s interest in the former holding, shall either continue to affect that holding or be transferred to the said parcel of land.

Expenses in elation to improvement of and, &c.                                      5.—(1) Any expenses incurred or compensation payable by the Estates Commissioners in relation to land acquired under this Act in the exercise of the powers conferred by section twelve of the Act of 1903, or by the provisions of this Act relating to the determination of tenancies, shall be paid out of the reserve fund mentioned in section forty-three of the Act of 1903, and, if and so far as that fund is insufficient, shall be paid as part of the expenses of the Land Commission.

(2) Regulations under subsection three of the said section forty-three may provide for the repayment to the account of the expenses of the Land Commission of any money paid under the foregoing provisions of this section as part of the expenses of the Land Commission and recovered by way of an increase of price on resale.
(3) All costs and expenses necessarily and properly incurred by any person in respect of a petition, hearing, or appeal under this Act, or by any person having a claim upon the purchase money of land acquired under this Act in the ascertainment of the title to and distribution of that money, shall be paid, as part of the expenses of the Land Commission, to the person who incurred such costs or expenses.

Power to incur loss on resales.                                                     6. If the amount of the purchase money of any land acquired by the Estates Commissioners under this Act is greater than the 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.

Restriction on the acquisition of land.                                             7. No untenanted land shall be acquired compulsorily under this Act which is or forms part of any demesne, home farm, town 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.

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

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

Incorporation of 8 Vict. c. 18 s. 91.                                               10. Section ninety-one of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, which makes provision in case of refusal to deliver 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.

Restraint on transfer of holdings and protection in case of bankruptcy, &c.         11.—(1) So long as a parcel of land, provided out of land acquired under this Act, and sold to an evicted tenant, is subject to an annuity under the Land Purchase Acts, the interest of the purchaser in the land shall not be transferred on a voluntary sale 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 incurred by such evicted tenant prior to the date on which the parcel of land became vested in him.

Protection of farm stock, &c.                                                       12. No farming stock or other chattels provided for an 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.                                                            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.

Surplus lands.                                                                      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.

Application of Acts.                                                                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.

Tenure of office by Estates Commissioners.                                          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.

Expenses of improvement in case of land sold to evicted tenant by owner of estate.  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.

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

Duration of Act.                                                                    19. The provisions of this Act conferring powers for the acquisition of land and for the determination of tenancies shall 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.

Short title, &c.                                                                    20. This Act may be cited as the Evicted Tenants (Ireland) 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 1903,” and may be cited with the Land Purchase Acts.

3 Edw. 7. c. 37

SCHEDULE.
Particulars of Decisions and Returns.
Section 3 .
COUNTY.                                                 Name of Estate on which former holding is situate.  Name of Tenant.          Townland on which former holding is situate.                Date of Eviction.  Annual rent of former holding at date of eviction (as stated in tenant’s application).  Annuity payable on purchase holding.  Expenditure sanctioned out of Reserve Fund.  Area.  Poor Law Valuation.

Advances repayable as part of Land Purchase Annuities.  Free Grants not repayable.                          Former Holding.          New Holding.                                                Former Holding.    New Holding.

Buildings and other improvements.                       Buildings and other improvements.                   Stock, farm implements.  Compensation to outgoing tenants on surrendering holdings.

(1)                                                     (2)                                                 (3)                      (4)                                                         (5)                (6)                                                                                (7)                                   (8)                                          (9)    (10)                 (11)  (12)  (13)  (14)  (15)