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 />
(b) a dispensation order dispensing with any requirement to give a tenant<br />
default notice specifying the default has effect.<br />
(3) Subsection (4) also applies where—<br />
(a) the landlord purports to make a termination claim on the ground <strong>of</strong> a<br />
tenant default without having given a tenant default notice specifying<br />
that default, but<br />
(b) subsection (2)(b) does not apply.<br />
(4) The landlord may not give a summary termination notice specifying the<br />
default concerned unless the claim is dismissed or abandoned.<br />
(5) Where the landlord gives a summary termination notice specifying a tenant<br />
default, he may not give a tenant default notice specifying that default unless—<br />
(a) the summary termination notice is withdrawn in accordance with<br />
prescribed requirements, or<br />
(b) a discharge order has effect in relation to the default.<br />
(6) A reference to giving a notice includes delivering it.<br />
26 Costs<br />
(1) The landlord may recover from the tenant, as a debt due to the landlord, all<br />
reasonable costs properly incurred in connection with preparing, giving or<br />
delivering a tenant default notice or a summary termination notice.<br />
(2) But costs may not be recovered under subsection (1) unless the notice<br />
specifies—<br />
(a) that the landlord intends to recover costs under that subsection, and<br />
(b) the amount <strong>of</strong> costs he intends to recover (so far as they can reasonably<br />
be quantified).<br />
(3) The landlord may not recover under a provision <strong>of</strong> the tenancy any costs—<br />
(a) which he is entitled to recover under subsection (1), or<br />
(b) which are disallowed on an assessment <strong>of</strong> the costs <strong>of</strong> proceedings<br />
under this Act.<br />
27 The Crown<br />
This Act binds the Crown.<br />
Interpretation, etc.<br />
28 Meaning <strong>of</strong> “tenancy”, “breach”, etc.<br />
(1) This section and sections 29 to 31 make provision <strong>for</strong> the interpretation <strong>of</strong> this<br />
Act.<br />
(2) “Tenancy” includes—<br />
(a) a sub-tenancy (including any sub-tenancy which is itself derived from<br />
a sub-tenancy), and<br />
(b) a tenancy in equity.<br />
(3) “Pre-commencement tenancy” means a tenancy granted—<br />
(a) be<strong>for</strong>e the date on which section 1 comes into <strong>for</strong>ce, or<br />
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