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(3.) Any jurisdiction vested by this Act in the High Court in relation to the purchase money under the Land Purchase Acts, or otherwise in relation to those Acts, shall, subject to rules of court, be exercised by a Land Judge.
Saving of Ulster tenant right custom. 49. Nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice or affect any right, benefit, or presumption, exercised or enjoyed under or by virtue of the Ulster tenant right custom, or any usage corresponding thereto.
Application and construction of Parts of Act. 50.—(1.) Part One of this Act shall, save as is by this Act expressly provided, apply to every proceeding pending at the commencement of this Act. (2.) An application to fix a fair rent for a holding shall not be refused on the ground of any previous decision with reference to the holding or any part thereof, whether between the same parties or otherwise, if such application can be sustained under this Act or any of the Land Law Acts as amended by this Act, and where a tenant would, if this Act had been in force at the passing of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881 44 & 45 Vict. c. 49, be now a present tenant, and either the landlord has not, since the passing of the said Act, or the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, as the case may be, resumed possession of the holding, or if he resumed the tenant has redeemed or been reinstated in his former tenancy, the tenant shall be deemed a present tenant for the purpose of any such application.
(3.) Parts One and Two of this Act shall be construed as one with the Land Law Acts,and together with those Acts may be cited as the Land Law Acts, and shall apply to all holdings to which the Land Law Acts, or any of them, as amended by this Act, apply, and section twenty-two of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881 44&45 Vict c.49, shall apply as if the said Acts and Parts of this Act were part of the foregoing provisions of the said Act of 1881, within the meaning of the said section.
(4.) Parts Two, Three, and Five of this Act shall be construed as one with the Land Purchase Acts as herein defined, and together with those Acts may be cited as the Land Purchase Acts.
(5.) The provisions of Part III. of this Act with respect to superior interests and a vesting order shall not, without the consent of the vendor and purchaser, apply to proceedings in respect of any agreement made before the commencement of this Act.
(6.) Part Four of this Act shall be construed as one with the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Acts, as defined in the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Act, 1894 57 & 58 Vict. c. 50., and together with those Acts may be cited collectively as the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Acts.
Short title51. This Act may be cited as the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1896.
Repeal52. The Acts specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule.