Part I LANDLORD AND TENANT

Chapter VI MISCELLANEOUS

Compulsory acquisition of landlord’s interest

I185 Amendment of Part III of Landlord and Tenant Act 1987.

1

Part III of the M1Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (compulsory acquisition by tenants of their landlord’s interest) shall be amended as follows.

2

In section 25 (compulsory acquisition of landlord’s interest by qualifying tenants)—

a

for subsection (2)(c) there shall be substituted—

c

the total number of flats held by such tenants is not less than two-thirds of the total number of flats contained in the premises.

b

subsection (3) shall be omitted.

3

In section 27(4) (meaning of requisite majority in relation to qualifying tenants), for “more than 50 per cent.” there shall be substituted “ not less than two-thirds ”.

4

In section 29(2) (conditions for making acquisition orders), the words from “and (c)” onwards shall be omitted.