# The Smallholdings (Selection of Tenants) (Amendment) Regulations 1976, 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:β€” β€œ(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 isβ€” (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.”. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/2001/regulation/3 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-selection-of-tenants-amendment-regulations-1976/regulation-3 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.