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Section 54 Additional payments to tenants quitting holdings.

(1)

Where compensation for disturbance in respect of an agricultural holding or part of such a holding becomes payable—

(a)

to a tenant, under this Act; or

(b)

to a statutory small tenant, under section 13 of the 1931 Act;

subject to this Part of this Act, there shall be payable by the landlord to the tenant, in addition to the compensation, a sum to assist in the reorganisation of the tenant’s affairs of the amount referred to in subsection (2) below.

(2)

The sum payable under subsection (1) above shall be equal to 4 times the annual rent of the holding or, in the case of part of a holding, 4 times the appropriate portion of that rent, at the rate at which the rent was payable immediately before the termination of the tenancy.