44. Section 73 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor: -
| 73. Title to a land alienated on a permit or to a holding shall be deemed to have devolved on any person entitled to succeed to the land or holding under the provisions of section 72 as from the date of the death of the permit holder on owner of the holding if such permit holder or owner died without leaving behind his or her spouse, or, if such permit-holder or owner died leaving behind his or her spouse, upon the failure of such spouse to succeed or from the date of the death of such spouse, as the case may be.". |
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