22. Section 48 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor: -
| 48. In this Chapter "successor", when used with reference to any land alienated on a permit or a holding, means a person who is entitled under this Chapter to succeed to that land or holding upon the death of the permit-holder or owner thereof, if that permit-holder or owner died without leaving behind his or her spouse, or, if that permit- holder or owner died leaving behind his or her spouse, upon the failure of that spouse to succeed to that land or holding or upon the death of that spouse. '. |
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