PART 3 E+W PROVISIONS APPLYING TO ALL OCCUPATION CONTRACTS

Valid from 01/12/2022

CHAPTER 5 E+W JOINT CONTRACT-HOLDERS AND JOINT LANDLORDS

Joint contract-holders E+W

49 Adding a joint contract-holder E+W

(1) The contract-holder under an occupation contract and another person may, with the consent of the landlord, make that person a joint contract-holder under the contract.

(2) If a person is made a joint contract-holder under this section he or she becomes entitled to all the rights and subject to all the obligations of a contract-holder under the contract from the day on which he or she becomes a joint contract-holder.

(3) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all occupation contracts.