7 Notice required for exercise of option to terminate tenancy or resume possession of part.E+W
(1)Where a farm business tenancy is a tenancy for a term of more than two years, any notice to quit the holding or part of the holding given in pursuance of any provision of the tenancy shall (notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the tenancy) be invalid unless it is in writing and is given at least twelve months F1... before the date on which it is to take effect.
(2)Subsection (1) above does not apply in relation to a counter-notice given by the tenant by virtue of subsection (2) of section 140 of the M1Law of Property Act 1925 (apportionment of conditions on severance of reversion).
(3)Subsection (1) above does not apply to a tenancy which, by virtue of subsection (6) of section 149 of the M2Law of Property Act 1925 (lease for life or lives or for a term determinable with life or lives or on the marriage of[F2 , or formation of a civil partnership by, ] the lessee), takes effect as such a term of years as is mentioned in that subsection.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 7(1) repealed (19.10.2006) by Regulatory Reform (Agricultural Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2805), arts. 1(1)(b), 13 (with art. 10)
F2Words in s. 7(3) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(2), Sch. 8 para. 49; S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
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