Paragraph 4
This paragraph shall apply where, immediately before the passing of this Act, the Minister was in possession of land under section eighteen of the Act of 1947.
In this paragraph—
“the landlord” has the same meaning as in the said section eighteen;
“the landlord’s agreement” means the agreement, if any, regulating the Minister’s possession of the land made between the Minister and the landlord under subsection (2) of the said section eighteen.
The Minister shall be entitled to remain in possession of the land until the eleventh day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.
If, immediately before the said eleventh day of October, the land is being farmed by a person entrusted by the Minister with the farming thereof (in this sub-paragraph referred to as “the farmer”) then, on that day—
the farmer shall become the tenant of the land under a tenancy from year to year beginning on that day on such terms as may thereafter be agreed between the farmer and the landlord or as may, in default of agreement, be determined by arbitration under the Act of 1948; and
the landlord’s agreement and the agreement regulating the farming of the land made between the Minister and the farmer under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of the said section eighteen shall each determine as if the condition specified in paragraph (b) of subsection (5) of that section had been satisfied.
If, immediately before the said eleventh day of October, the land is being farmed by a person acting under the direction of the Minister the landlord’s agreement shall determine on that day as if the landlord had served on the Minister a notice in writing under paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of the said section eighteen two months before that day.
Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of the said section eighteen, subsections (2) and (4) and (6) to (8) of that section shall continue to apply in relation to the land, so however that paragraph (b) of the said subsection (2) shall not apply in relation thereto.