Part IIILandlord and tenant

Chapter IIAssured tenancies

Assured agricultural occupancies

103Assured agricultural occupancies: exclusion of tenancies of agricultural holdings and farm business tenancies

1

Section 24 of the [1988 c. 50.] Housing Act 1988 (assured agricultural occupancies) shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (2)(b) (under which a tenancy is an assured agricultural occupancy if it would be an assured tenancy, but for paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to that Act) there shall be inserted at the end “and is not an excepted tenancy”.

3

After subsection (2) there shall be inserted—

2A

For the purposes of subsection (2)(b) above, a tenancy is an excepted tenancy if it is—

a

a tenancy of an agricultural holding within the meaning of the [1986 c. 5.] Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 in relation to which that Act applies, or

b

a farm business tenancy within the meaning of the [1995 c. 8.] Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.