Cottier Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1856

COTTIER TENANT (IRELAND) ACT 1856

C A P. LXV.

An Act to encourage the providing of improved Dwellings for the Labouring Classes in Ireland. [21st July 1856.]

Whereas it would encourage the providing of improved Dwellings for the Labouring Classes in Ireland if a summary Remedy for recovering the Possession when wrongfully withheld were made applicable to small Tenements of a Description suited to such Classes, but upon Condition that such Tenements shall have had at least certain primary Requisites for the Comfort and Health of the Tenants:’ lie it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: