Cap. 88 чл. 20Termination of lease: compensation.

(1) When land, other than rural land, has been acquired by a competent authority, either absolutely or for a time, or on public tenure, and that land is subject to a lease other than an emphyteutical lease, then, no compensation for the termination of the lease shall be paid to the tenant or occupier, if a full year’s notice to quit is given by the competent authority to such tenant or occupier.

(2) If less than a year’s notice to quit is given, due compen-sation shall be paid to the tenant or occupier.

(3) Compensation for the termination of the lease shall in no case exceed the fair rent of the land for a period of two years.

(4) In fixing the amount of compensation within the limit aforesaid, regard shall be had to the remaining period of the lease and to all the circumstances of the particular case. compensation in respect of any agricultural improvements carried out by the tenant or occupier or by a member of the family in the said rural land during the period of eight consecutive years preceding the date of termination of the lease and an amount equal to the value of the products gathered by the tenant, occupier or by a member of the family from the said rural land, after deduction of the expenses incurred towards its cultivation in the last four years immediately preceding the date of such termination: Provided that there shall not be deducted as part of the said expenses the cost of the tenant’s or occupier’s own labour or the labour of any member of the family in the rural land.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the last preceding subarticle, if the compensation in respect of improvements referred to in the said subarticle, or a part thereof, is payable to the owner of the rural land in terms of the agreement governing the contractual relations between such owner and the tenant or occupier of the rural land, such compensation or the part thereof which is so payable shall not be paid to the said tenant or occupier: Provided that the total aggregate sum payable to the tenant or occupier of the rural land under the last preceding subarticle shall in no case be less than the fair rent of the rural land for a period of two years.

(3) In this article "member of the family" means a lineal ascendant, a lineal descendant, a widow or a widower, a son-in-law, and a widowed daughter-in-law while not remarried, of the tenant or occupier.