Allotment Regulations 1900
Made by the Parish Council of the Parish of Marston with respect to allotments for the said Parish.
Interpretation of terms.
1. Throughout these regulations the expression " the Council " means the Parish Council of the Parish of Marston ; and the expression " the Parish " means the Parish of Marston.
For defining the persons eligible to be tenants of the
allotments.
2. Any man or woman, of not less than twenty-one years of age, who at the time of application to the Council for an allotment has been resident in the Parish for not less than three months, and belongs to the labouring population, shall be eligible to become a tenant of an allotment.
Provided always, that a person who, at the time of such application, already holds an allotment, either from the Council or otherwise, shall not be eligible to become tenant of an allotment, the area of which, together with the area of any allotment or allotments already held by him, would amount to more than one acre.
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As to dividing the land into allotments and keeping a
register of allotments.
The Council, before giving notice of their intention to let any allotment, shall divide the land, and shall cause a plan to be prepared showing each allotment, and distinguishing it by a separate number. They shall enter each allotment under its number in a register which shall be kept by them, showing the particulars of the tenancy, acreage, and rent of every allotment.
The Council may from time to time re-divide any portion of the land. They shall number each allotment formed on such re-division and enter it in the register in the manner herein-before prescribed.
For defining the notices to be given for the letting of
the allotments.
The Council shall give public notice in the manner required by section 51 of the Local Government Act, 1894, of the particulars as to any allotments which they propose to let. Such notice shall specify the allotments to be let and the size thereof, the rent to be paid for the same, the name and address of the Clerk of the Council to whom application for the hiring of any allotment is to be sent, and the last day for receiving any such application.
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For defining- the size of the allotments.
The size of any allotment let by the Council shall not be less than ten poles, nor more than thirty poles.
For regulating the letting of the allotments and preventing any undue preference in the letting thereof.
The Council shall not let any allotment unless and until notice that they propose to let the same has been duly given in pursuance of the regulation in that behalf at least two weeks before the last day for receiving applications to hire such allotment.
Every person who shall apply for an allotment shall submit his application in writing. He shall state therein the number of such allotment in the register kept by the Council, and furnish a true statement of the following particulars ; that is to say :—
I. His Christian name and surname :
His place of residence :
His age :
His occupation :
How long he has been resident in the Parish :
Whether he holds any Allotment, and if so
From whom ;
The extent of the Allotment.
He shall date and sign the application, and shall send or deliver the same to the Clerk of the Council.
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All such applications shall be numbered by the Clerk of the Council in the order in which they are received.
In letting an allotment for which there are two or more applicants eligible to become tenants, the Council shall select the applicant who appears most likely to keep the allotment in a proper state of cultivation ; but in cases of equality in this respect the Council shall give preference to the applicants according to the order in which their applications are numbered as having been received.
When the Council have decided to let any allotment or allotments to any person, an agreement shall be made between the Council and such person, in the form herein-after prescribed, or in a form to the like effect.
FORM OF AGREEMENT FOR LETTING.
Agreement made this thirteenth day of
January 1916, between the Parish Council of the Parish of Marston (herein-after called the Council) of the one part, and
A. Griffin of Marston (herein-after called the tenant) of the other part, whereby the Council agree to let, and the tenant agrees to hire the allotment [or allotments] numbered in the register of allotments provided for the Parish, and containing 11¼ poles or thereabouts, at the yearly rent of 4s/8d , and at a roportionate rent for any period of less than a year over which the tenancy may extend, subject to the following conditions :-
(a) The rent shall be paid quarterly, in advance, on the 25th day of March, the 24th day of June, the 29th day of September, and the 25th day of December in each year.
(6) Any member or officer of the Council shall be entitled at any time when directed by the Council to enter and inspect the allotment.
The tenant shall not without the consent of the Council, obtained in writing; erect any building on the allotment land.
The tenancy, if not sooner terminated by the Council in pursuance of the Local Government Act, 1894, and the Allotments Act, 1887, or of any Regulations made thereunder, shall terminate on the death of the tenant, or after three months' notice in writing given by the tenant, such notice to expire on one of the usual quarte day
Signed: Mr Roberts, Chairman
Witness R. L Ward
Parish Councillors.
Signed
Tenant. Witness: H. Chapman
* The agreement should be signed at a meeting of the Council by the
Chairman of the
meeting and two Councillors.
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For defining the conditions under which the allotments
are to be cultivated.
Every person to whom an allotment may have been let shall cultivate such allotment according to the following conditions, that is to say :-
He shall keep the allotment free from weeds, and well manured, and otherwise maintain it in a proper state of cultivation ;
He shall not plant any trees or shrubs so as to be injurious to any adjacent allotment ;
He shall not cause any nuisance or annoyance to the tenant of any other allotment.
If any manure, refuse or other matter or thing shall be by him laid or deposited upon any paths or roads of the allotment land he shall immediately remove such manure, refuse, matter or thing from such paths or roads.
As to the reasonable notice to be given to a tenant of any
allotment of the determination
of his tenancy.
The Council shall give to the tenant of any allotment not less than three months' notice of the determination of his tenancy, such notice to take effect on one of the usual quarter days.
Provided always that this regulation shall not apply in the case of the determination of a tenancy in pursuance of the statutory provision in that behalf, where the rent is in arrear for not less than forty
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days, or where it appears to the Council that the tenant of an allotment, not less than three months after the commencement of the tenancy thereof, has not duly observed the regulations affecting such allotment, or is resident more than one mile out of the Parish.
For prescribing the manner in which the register of
allotments required by these regulations
to be kept
by the Council shall be open to examination.
to. The register to be kept by the Council in pursuance of these regulations shall be deposited with the Clerk of the Council, and shall be open between the hours of 6 p.m and 8 p.m. on any day other than Sunday to the examination of any parochial elector in the parish.
ALFRED EVANS, Chairman DAVID WHITE.
GEORGE CROSS.
Signed this gth day of August, 1900.
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The foregoing Regulations, with respect to Allotments, are hereby allowed by the Local Government Board, this Twenty-sixth day of September, 1900.
H. C. MUNRO,
Assistant Secretary,
Acting on behalf of the said Board, under the authority of their General Order, dated the Twenty-sixth day of May, 1877.
Each allottee is requested to fasten the gate after him.
