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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 (c.36)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Landlord and Tenant Act 1927

1927 CHAPTER 36 17_and_18_Geo_5

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Compensation for Improvements and Goodwill on the termination of Tenancies of Business Premises

    1. 1. Tenant’s right to compensation for improvements

    2. 2. Limitation on tenant’s right to compensation in certain cases

    3. 3. Landlord’s right to object

    4. 4,5... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. 6,7... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    6. 8. Rights of mesne landlords

    7. 9. Restriction on contracting out

    8. 10. Right of entry

    9. 11. Right to make deductions

    10. 12. Application of 13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 9. s. 20

    11. 13. Power to apply and raise capital money

    12. 14. Power to sell or grant leases notwithstanding restrictions

    13. 15. Provisions as to reversionary leases

    14. 16. Landlord’s right to reimbursement of increased taxes, rates or insurance premiums

    15. 17. Holdings to which Part I. applies

  2. Part II

    General Amendments of the Law of Landlord and Tenant

    1. 18. Provisions as to covenants to repair

    2. 19. Provisions as to covenants not to assign, &c. without licence or consent

    3. 20. Apportionment of rents

  3. Part III

    General

    1. 21. The tribunal

    2. 22.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 23. Service of notices

    4. 24. Application to Crown, Duchy, ecclesiastical and charity lands

    5. 25. Interpretation

    6. 26.†Short title, commencement and extent

  4. FIRST SCHEDULE

    Provisions as to Charges

  5. SECOND SCHEDULE

An Act to provide for the payment of compensation for improvements and goodwill to tenants of premises used for business purposes, or the grant of a new lease in lieu thereof; and to amend the law of landlord and tenant.

[22nd December 1927]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act: certain functions transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1

C2Act extended by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1)(3), Sch. 7 para. 2(3), Sch. 8 para. 33; Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 190(1), Sch. 25 para. 1(3) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58) and Electricity Act 1989 (c.29, SIF 44:1), s. 112(1)(3), Sch. 16 para. 1(2), Sch. 17 paras. 33. 35(1)

C3Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

C4Act amended (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45, s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(4); S.I. 1996/218, art. 2

Commencement Information

I1Act wholly in force at 25.3.1928 by 26(2) (since repealed).

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