Termination of Tenancies for Tenant Default - Law Commission
Termination of Tenancies for Tenant Default - Law Commission
Termination of Tenancies for Tenant Default - Law Commission
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Landlord and <strong>Tenant</strong> (<strong>Termination</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Tenancies</strong>) Bill<br />
(4) It must set out the prescribed particulars <strong>of</strong> every interest in the tenancy which<br />
is a qualifying interest <strong>of</strong> which the landlord has knowledge.<br />
(5) If the specified remedial action is or includes the making <strong>of</strong> a payment, the<br />
notice must also specify the amount <strong>of</strong> the payment (so far as it can reasonably<br />
be quantified).<br />
(6) If the notice specifies a deadline which is less than seven days after the day on<br />
which the tenant is given the notice (“the service day”), the deadline is to be<br />
taken to be the seventh day after the service day.<br />
(7) Section 26(2) (costs) makes further provision about the contents <strong>of</strong> the notice.<br />
7 Period <strong>for</strong> making claim<br />
(1) The landlord may not make a termination claim on the ground <strong>of</strong> a tenant<br />
default specified in a tenant default notice except during the period <strong>of</strong> six<br />
months beginning with the start day.<br />
(2) The start day is—<br />
(a) if the notice specifies only one deadline, the day after that deadline,<br />
(b) if it specifies more than one deadline, the day after the later or latest <strong>of</strong><br />
those deadlines, or<br />
(c) if it does not specify a deadline, the eighth day after the service day.<br />
(3) But if the landlord and tenant agree that the period is not to begin until after<br />
the start day, the period begins with the day specified in the agreement.<br />
(4) The agreement—<br />
(a) must be in, or be evidenced by, writing, and<br />
(b) may not provide <strong>for</strong> the period to begin more than six months after the<br />
start day.<br />
(5) “Deadline” has the meaning given in section 6(2)(b).<br />
(6) “Service day” has the meaning given in section 6(6).<br />
8 Dispensation order<br />
(1) Where, on an application by the landlord, the court thinks it just and equitable<br />
to dispense with one or more <strong>of</strong> the requirements imposed on the landlord by<br />
section 4, it may make a dispensation order.<br />
(2) A dispensation order is an order dispensing with the requirement (or<br />
requirements) concerned.<br />
(3) Subsection (4) applies where the landlord purports to make a termination<br />
claim without having complied with one or more <strong>of</strong> the requirements imposed<br />
on him by section 4.<br />
(4) A dispensation order may provide that the landlord is to be taken to have<br />
complied with—<br />
(a) the requirement (or requirements) concerned;<br />
(b) sections 6 and 7.<br />
(5) A dispensation order (other than one making provision within subsection<br />
(4))—<br />
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