C1C2C3PART IV SECURE TENANCIES AND RIGHTS OF SECURE TENANTS

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Pt. IV (ss. 79-117) modified (1.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/401, art. 18, Sch. para. 8(c)

C3

Pt. IV (ss. 79-117) extended (1.10.1997) by 1996 c. 27, ss. 53, 63(4), Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 7(3)(6) (with Sch. 9 paras. 8-10); S.I. 1997/1892, art. 3 (subject to transitional provisions in art. 4(b)(c))

Succession on death of tenant

C489 Succession to periodic tenancy.

1

This section applies where a secure tenant dies and the tenancy is a periodic tenancy.

2

Where there is a person qualified to succeed the tenant, the tenancy vests by virtue of this section in that person, or if there is more than one such person in the one to be preferred in accordance with the following rules—

a

the tenant’s spouse is to be preferred to another member of the tenant’s family;

b

of two or more other members of the tenant’s family such of them is to be preferred as may be agreed between them or as may, where there is no such agreement, be selected by the landlord.

3

Where there is no person qualified to succeed the tenant and the tenancy is vested or otherwise disposed of in the course of the administration of the tenant’s estate, the tenancy ceases to be a secure tenancy unless the vesting or other disposal is in pursuance of an order made under section 24 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (property adjustment orders in connection with matrimonial proceedings).

4

A tenancy which ceases to be a secure tenancy by virtue of this section cannot subsequently become a secure tenancy.