SCHEDULES

F2SCHEDULE 2A Assured Tenancies: Non-Shortholds

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Sch. 2A inserted (28.2.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 96(2), Sch. 7; S.I. 1997/225, art. 2 (subject to savings in Sch.)

Assured agricultural occupancies

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1

An assured tenancy—

a

in the case of which the agricultural worker condition is, by virtue of any provision of Schedule 3 to this Act, for the time being fulfilled with respect to the dwelling-house subject to the tenancy, and

b

which does not fall within sub-paragraph (2) or (4) below.

2

An assured tenancy falls within this sub-paragraph if—

a

before it is entered into, a notice—

i

in such form as may be prescribed, and

ii

stating that the tenancy is to be a shorthold tenancy,

is served by the person who is to be the landlord under the tenancy on the person who is to be the tenant under it, and

b

it is not an excepted tenancy.

3

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(b) above, an assured tenancy is an excepted tenancy if—

a

the person to whom it is granted or, as the case may be, at least one of the persons to whom it is granted was, immediately before it is granted, a tenant or licensee under an assured agricultural occupancy, and

b

the person by whom it is granted or, as the case may be, at least one of the persons by whom it is granted was, immediately before it is granted, a landlord or licensor under the assured agricultural occupancy referred to in paragraph (a) above.

4

An assured tenancy falls within this sub-paragraph if it comes into being by virtue of section 5 above on the coming to an end of a tenancy falling within sub-paragraph (2) above.