Section 46 Right to compensation for old improvements of tenant who has paid compensation therefor to outgoing tenant.

Where, on entering into occupation of the holding, the tenant, with the consent in writing of the landlord and in pursuance of an agreement made before the first day of November, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, paid to an outgoing tenant any compensation payable under or in pursuance of this Act or the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Acts, 1923 to 1948, in respect of the whole or part of an old improvement, or, with the like consent and in pursuance of an agreement in writing made after that day, paid to an outgoing tenant any compensation payable as aforesaid in respect of the whole or part of an old improvement of the kind specified in Part 111 of the First Schedule to this Act, he shall be entitled, on quitting the holding, to claim compensation for the improvement or part in like manner, if at all, as the outgoing tenant would have been entitled if the outgoing tenant had remained tenant of the holding and quitted it at the time at which the tenant quits it.