Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1980. Country/Territory Ireland Document type Legislation Date 1980 (2019) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Land & soil Keyword Liability/compensation Land tenure Land-use planning Lease Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Private land Procedural matters Property rights Geographical area Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Abstract This Act is aimed to amend the law relating to the renewal of leases and tenancies and to compensation for improvements and for disturbance or loss of title and for these and other purposes to amend the law of landlord and tenant and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid (including land tenure, property rights and issues, land conversion, leasing related issues and procedural matters). Conversion of leases for lives into fee simple-article 74 states that a person entitled to an interest in land the title to which interest originated under a lease for lives renewable forever which was created prior to the 1st day of August, 1849, and was not converted into a fee farm grant under the Renewable Leasehold Conversion Act, 1849, shall from the commencement of this Act hold the land for an estate in fee simple. The said estate shall be deemed to be a graft upon the previous interest and shall be subject to any rights or equities arising from its being such graft. Full text English Website revisedacts.lawreform.ie