39LAcceleration of purchase, &c.

39L Acceleration of purchase, &c.

[Section 39L Inserted by No. 26 of 1968, s. 4 ]

(1)  Where a tenant has before the allotment to him of his holding by the Board been in occupation under subsection (2) of section ten of the same land, the periods of six years mentioned in section twenty-two and section thirty-eight shall be deemed to have ended when the tenant has been in occupation of that land for eight years continuously, whether under subsection (2) of section ten, under subsection (2) of section fifteen, or under his tenancy.

(2)  If, before the allotment to a tenant of his holding and before he went into occupation of the same land under subsection (2) of section ten, a tenant has been in occupation of other land under that subsection, such occupation of the other land shall for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section be reckoned as occupation of the same land and no period of less than twenty-one days elapsing between one occupation and the next shall be deemed to break the continuity of its occupation.

(3)  If the period of eight years mentioned in subsection (1) of this section expires before the seventh day after the allotment to the tenant of his holding it shall be deemed to expire on that seventh day.

(4)  If it appears to the Minister just so to do he may, after consulting the Board, by notice in the Gazette, shorten the period of eight years for a tenant and appoint a day on which it shall be deemed to have expired.