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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 31 March 2012 - onwards

114. Amendment of section 89 (provisions relating to agricultural property) of Principal Act.

(1) Section 89 of the Principal Act is amended -

(a) by inserting the following after subsection (1):

"(1A) For the purpose of paragraph (a) of the definition of 'farmer' in subsection (1), a loan secured on the dwelling-house referred to in that paragraph which is not used to purchase, repair or improve that dwelling-house will not be treated as a debt or an encumbrance.",

and

(b) in subsection (4) by deleting paragraph (c).

(2) This section applies to gifts and inheritances taken on or after 8 February 2012.