Occupier's Liability Notice

Occupier's Liability Notice, the notice which the owner of land out of which tithe rent-charge issues is required, by sub-s. 6 of s. 2 of the Tithe Act, 1891, to give to the owner of the tithe rent-charge of the liability of the occupier of the land, under a contract made before the Act, to pay such tithe rent-charge to such owner of land. Unless this notice (which is styled an 'occupier's liability notice' by r. 3 of the Tithe Rent-charge Recovery Rules, 1891) is served as required by the Tithe Act, 1891, the landowner may not recover from the occupier any sum which he has paid for tithe rent-charge, without a certificate from the County Court 'that there was good and sufficient cause for the failure to give such notice, and that the occupier has not been prejudiced thereby.' For form of notice, see Thring's Tithe Act, 1891 p. 58, and now, generally, the (English) Tithe Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 43), s. 20(3) (Transitional Provisions).