New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL TENANCIES ACT 1990 - SECT 6

6 Improvements carried out by tenants with consent

(1) It is a term of a tenancy that the tenant may carry out any improvement on the farm with the consent of the owner.

(2) If an amount of compensation to the tenant for the improvement is fixed by agreement, the owner must pay the tenant the fixed amount, unless the agreed amount is unfair.

(3) If compensation is not fixed by agreement at a fair amount, or is not fixed at all, the owner must pay fair compensation to the tenant.

(4) Compensation payable under this section is payable at the end of the tenancy or at such earlier time as may be agreed or determined by arbitration.

Note: Division 1 of Part 3 sets out the way compensation is to be determined for the purposes of this Part.