No 7 of 1954. Agricwltural Small Holdings

(Amen amen t)
(L.S.]
I AssENrT,
K. W. BrackBurng,

Governor.
20th January, 1954.

LEEWARD ISLANDS.
No. 7 of 1954.

An Act to amend further the Agricultural Small
Holdings Act, 1938.

BE IT ENACTED by the Governor and
General Legislative Council of the Leeward Islands
as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Agricultural
Small Holdings (Amendment): Act, 1954, and
shall be read as one with the Agricultural Small
Holdings Act, 1938, as amended, hereinafter called
the Principal Act.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is hereby
amended by the insertion, between the definitions

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LEEWARD
ISLANDS.

Short title.

12/1938.
11/1939.

Amendment

of section 2 of

the Principal
ct.

of the expressions ‘“‘ Registrar” and ‘“‘ small hold- Act

ing”, of the following definition: —

“rules of good husbandry’? means the
application of such measures for the con-
servation of soil, the. maintenance of
fertility, and generally for the preserva-
tion of the capital value of the holding as
are deemed to be a fair and reasonable
standard due regard being paid to the
standards prevailing in the neighbour-

- hood;”’. :

The following section is hereby substitu- .

ted for section 15 of the Principal Act:—

“©15. Where a person is let into posses-
sion of a small holding and the contract of
tenancy in respect of such holding is not in
writing, or, if in writing, has not been regis-
tered, the tenaney shall be deemed to be a

Substitution
of section 15
of the Princi-
pal Act.

Contracts

not m writing
and unregis-
tered con-
tracts.