Statutory Control of Tenancies

Question 1

What is the legal basis for commercial leases?

Answer 1

Landland and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1980

Question 2

What is a tenement?

Answer 2

Lands wholly or partly covered by buildings

Question 3

What is a business and what act covers this defintion?

Answer 3

Any trade, profession or business,whether or not it is carried on for gain or reward (Section 3 of the 1980 Act)

Question 4

Improvements and its statutory basis

Answer 4

Part 4 of 1980 Act

Question 5

When is a tenant eligible for compensation for an improvement

Answer 5

If improvements amount to half of the letting value of the tenement

Question 6

When are improvements applicable?

Answer 6

5 year plus fixed leases

Question 7

What does 13(1) (A) of the 1980 Act say?

Answer 7

Claim new tenancy after end of previous tenancy

Question 8

Under what circumstances can a tenant claim a new tenancy?

Answer 8

five years continuous occupation (s 3(1)), Long possession equity (20 years) or extensive improvement equity

Question 9

Under what act does it say that a landlords and tenants have right to opt out of right to renew tenancy?

Answer 9

S47 of Civil Law(Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008

Question 10

What act includes restrictions on new tenancies?

Answer 10

Section 17

Question 11

Under what act does tenants have a right to seek compensation for failed renewal?

Answer 11

s58 Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1980, s58.