Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870

Regulations as to notice to quit.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 93.

58. No notice to quit shall be valid unless it is printed or written, or partly in print and partly in writing, and signed by the landlord or his agent lawfully authorized thereunto, nor unless such notice at the time of the service thereof is duly stamped with a stamp denoting the payment of a duty of two shillings and sixpence. . . . [1] Any person serving on a tenant a notice to quit that is not in conformity with this section shall incur a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, to be recovered summarily under the provisions of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851.

In any proceedings between landlord and tenant, where the due service of a notice to quit has been proved, such notice to quit shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been duly stamped.

[1 Provision as to date on which notice to quit is to take effect in case of tenancy from year to year rep. 39 & 40 Vict. c. 63. s. 6, which substitutes other provisions.]