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Section 33.
1Laying down of permanent pasture.S
2Making of water-meadows or works of irrigation.S
3Making of gardens.S
4Planting of orchards or fruit bushes.S
5Warping or weiring of land.S
6Making of embankments and sluices against floods.S
7Making or planting of osier beds.S
8Haulage or other work done by the tenant in aid of the carrying out of any improvement made by the landlord for which the tenant is liable to pay increased rent.S
9Land drainage.S
10Construction of silos.S
11Making or improvement of farm access or service roads, bridges and fords.S
12Making or improvement of watercourses, ponds or wells, or of works for the application of water power for agricultural or domestic purposes or for the supply of water for such purposes.S
13Making or removal of permanent fences, including hedges, stone dykes and gates.S
14Reclaiming of waste land.S
15Renewal of embankments and sluices against floods.S
16Provision of stells, fanks, folds, dippers, pens and bughts necessary for the proper conduct of the holding.S
17Provision or laying on of electric light or power, including the provision of generating plant, fixed motors, wiring systems, switches and plug sockets.S
18Erection, alteration or enlargement of buildings, making or improvement of permanent yards, loading banks and stocks and works of a kind referred to in paragraph 13(2) of Schedule 8 to the M1Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (subject to the restrictions mentioned in that subsection).S
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19Erection of hay or sheaf sheds, sheaf or grain drying racks, and implement sheds.S
20Provision of fixed threshing mills, barn machinery and fixed dairying plant.S
21Improvement of permanent pasture by cultivation and re-seeding.S
22Provision of means of sewage disposal.S
23Repairs to fixed equipment, being equipment reasonably required for the efficient farming of the holding, other than repairs which the tenant is under an obligation to carry out.S
24Protecting fruit trees against animals.S
25Clay burning.S
26Claying of land.S
27Liming (including chalking) of land.S
28Marling of land.S
29Eradication of bracken, whins or broom growing on the holding at the commencement of the tenancy and, in the case of arable land, removal of tree roots, boulders, stones or other like obstacles to cultivation.S
30Application to land of purchased manure and fertiliser, whether organic or inorganic.S
31Consumption on the holding of corn (whether produced on the holding or not) or of cake or other feeding stuff not produced on the holding by horses, cattle, sheep, pigs or poultry.S
32Laying down temporary pasture with clover, grass, lucerne, sainfoin, or other seeds, sown more than 2 years prior to the termination of the tenancy, in so far as the value of the temporary pasture on the holding at the time of quitting exceeds the value of the temporary pasture on the holding at the commencement of the tenancy for which the tenant did not pay compensation.S
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