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Free sale—meaning a tenant could sell the interest in his holding to an incoming tenant without landlord interference; Fixity of tenure—meaning that a tenant could not be evicted if he had paid the rent; Fair rent—meaning rent control: for the first time in the United Kingdom, fair rent would be decided by land courts, and not by the ...
If the tenant is on a fixed term tenancy and their lease is coming to an end, a landlord will be required to give them a valid notice to vacate. The period of this notice varies from state to state. If the tenant will not cooperate with the parameters of an eviction notice, application is made to the Tenancy Tribunal for possession of the property.
The Law Reform Commission in 2003 stated the act "continues as the foundation of the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland". [3] In 2011 the Minister for Justice published a draft scheme of a bill to modernise landlord and tenant law, [4] however the bill was never introduced to the Oireachtas.
The Route Tenants Defence Association organised an all-Ireland National Tenants Rights conference in Belfast. [4] In addition to the "Three F's" (fair rent fixity of tenure, and free sales), resolutions called for loans to facilitate tenant purchase of land and for breaking the landlord monopoly on local government.
The Land Acts (officially Land Law (Ireland) Acts) [1] were a series of measures to deal with the question of tenancy contracts and peasant proprietorship of land in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Five such acts were introduced by the government of the United Kingdom between 1870 and 1909.
The Tenant Right League was a federation of local societies formed in Ireland in the wake of the Great Famine to check the power of landlords and advance the rights of tenant farmers. An initiative of northern unionists and southern nationalists , it articulated a common programme of agrarian reform.
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The Ulster Custom or any similar custom prevailing elsewhere was given the force of law where it existed.. Tenants not enjoying that protection (the vast majority) gained increased security by compensation for improvements made to a farm if they surrendered their lease (they had previously been accredited to the landlord, hence no incentive to the tenant) and compensation for 'disturbance ...