Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act 1931

12 Power of county councils to provide cottage holdings

(1) The power of county councils to provide small holdings for persons who desire to buy or lease them shall include power to provide a cottage holding for any person who is, in the opinion of the council, a suitable person and who satisfies them that—

(a) he will reside permanently in the dwelling-house comprised in the holding; and

(b) he has the intention, knowledge and capital to cultivate satisfactorily the land forming part of the cottage holding,

and all the provisions of the Small Holdings and Allotments Acts with respect to small holdings shall apply to cottage holdings accordingly but subject to the modification that section six of the [16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 52.] Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1926, shall, in relation to any such holding, whether provided under this section or under the section thereby repealed, have effect as if among the conditions specified in subsection (1) of the said section six there were included a condition that the owner or occupier, as the case may be, shall reside permanently in the dwelling-house comprised in the holding.

(2) Section twelve of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1926, is hereby repealed.