Section 68: Restoration of agricultural holding following mineral exploitation
226.This section inserts section 29A into the 1991 Act. New section 29A(1) provides subsection (2) is to apply where there exists a continuing 1991 Act tenancy and where part of that tenancy had been terminated by virtue of section 29(1) of the 1991 Act for a purpose set out in section 29(2)(f) of that Act (including the mining of extraction of minerals and other materials or the construction or works or buildings connected with such purposes).
227.Subsection (2) provides that where the land in respect of which the tenancy was terminated has been made suitable, and is available, for agricultural use then, if both of the conditions set out in subsection (3) are satisfied, that land shall be restored to the holding.
228.The conditions set out in subsection (3) are satisfied where the tenancy of the holding continues in force with the same tenant and landlord under the lease and any compensation paid to the tenant because of the termination took into account in the calculation of that compensation that the land would be restored to the holding under this section.