Regulation 3 Amendment of principal regulations

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations (which lays down requirements as to agricultural experience of prospective tenants) shall be amended by the addition of the following paragraphs:—

“(3)

Where the tenant of a smallholding has died and the smallholdings authority intend to re-let that smallholding, no application for the first letting of that smallholding after the death of the tenant by a person who is not an eligible person in relation to the deceased tenant shall be considered by the smallholdings authority unless every such application from a person who is an eligible person as aforesaid has been considered by that authority and refused.

(4)

For the purposes of the preceding paragraph a person is an eligible person in relation to a deceased tenant of a smallholding if that person is—

(a)

the wife or husband of the deceased tenant;

(b)

a brother or sister of the deceased tenant;

(c)

a child of the deceased tenant;

(d)

any person (not within (b) or (c) above) who, in the case of any marriage to which the deceased tenant was at any time a party, was treated by the deceased tenant as a child of the family in relation to that marriage.”.