{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1949-repealed-2591991/section-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1949-repealed-2591991/section-57.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/75",
  "legislation_title": "Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949 (repealed 25.9.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1949-repealed-2591991",
  "path": "section/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Compensation to landlord for deterioration, etc. of particular parts of holding.",
  "text": "(1) The landlord of an agricultural holding shall be entitled to recover from the tenant of the holding, on the tenant’s quitting the holding on the termination of the tenancy, compensation in respect of any dilapidation or deterioration of, or damage to, any part of the holding or anything in or on the holding, caused by non-fulfilment by the tenant of his responsibilities to farm in accordance with the rules of good husbandry.\n(2) The amount of the compensation payable under the foregoing subsection shall be the cost, as at the date of the tenant’s quitting the holding, of making good the dilapidation, deterioration or damage.\n(3) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the landlord may, in lieu of claiming compensation under subsection (1) of this section, claim compensation in respect of matters specified therein under and in accordance with a lease in writing, so however that—\n(a) compensation shall be so claimed only on the tenant’s quitting the holding on the termination of the tenancy;\n(b) compensation shall not be claimed in respect of any one holding both under such a lease and under the said subsection (1);\nand for the purposes of paragraph (b) of this subsection any claim under subsection (1) of section six of this Act shall be disregarded",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/75/section/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:10.716020+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}