SCHEDULE 5 CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Leasehold Reform Act 1967
11 For paragraph 2(1) substitute—

“1 Sub-paragraphs (1A) to (1E) below apply where a landlord’s notice terminating the tenancy of any property has been given under section 4 or 25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 or served under paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (whether or not that notice has effect to terminate the tenancy).
1A A claim to acquire the freehold or an extended lease of the property shall be of no effect if made after the relevant time, but this sub-paragraph is subject to sub-paragraphs (1D) and (1E) below.
1B In this paragraph (but subject to sub-paragraph (1C) below) “the relevant time” is the end of the period of two months beginning with the date on which the landlord’s notice terminating the tenancy has been given or served.
1C Where—
(a) a landlord’s notice terminating the tenancy has been given under section 25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, and
(b) the tenant applies to the court under section 24(1) of that Act for an order for the grant of a new tenancy before the end of the period of two months mentioned in sub-paragraph (1B) above,
“the relevant time” is the time when the application is made.
1D Sub-paragraph (1A) above shall not apply where the landlord gives his written consent to the claim being made after the relevant time.
1E Where a tenant, having given notice of a desire to have the freehold, gives after the relevant time a further notice under section 9(3) of this Act of his inability or unwillingness to acquire the house and premises at the price he must pay, he may with the notice under section 9(3) give a notice of his desire to have an extended lease (if he then has a right to such a lease).”

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