Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949

27 Provisions supplementary to s.25 and s.26

(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations—

(a) for requiring any question arising under subsection (2) of section twenty-five of this Act to be determined by arbitration under this Act, for limiting the time within which any such arbitration may be required or any proceedings for the purposes thereof may be taken, and for extending the period within which a counter-notice may be given by the tenant under subsection (1) of that section where any such arbitration is required;

(b) as to the time within which and the manner in which applications for the Secretary of State's consent to the operation of notices to quit may be made under the said section twenty-five;

(c) for suspending the operation of notices to quit until the issue of the arbiter's award or the decision of the Land Court under the last foregoing section ;

(d) for postponing the date at which a tenancy is to be terminated by a notice to quit which has effect in consequence of any such award or decision as aforesaid;

(e) for excluding the application of subsection (1) of the said section twenty-five in relation to sub-tenancies in such cases as may be prescribed, and for making such provision as appears to the Secretary of State expedient for the purpose of safeguarding the interests of sub-tenants, including provision enabling the Secretary of State or the Land Court, where the interest of a tenant is terminated by notice to quit, to secure that a sub-tenant will hold from the landlord on the like terms as he held from the tenant.

(2) The power conferred on the Secretary of State by this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.