PART 3PROVISIONS APPLYING TO ALL OCCUPATION CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 5JOINT CONTRACT-HOLDERS AND JOINT LANDLORDS
Joint contract-holders: survivorship
I152Joint contract-holder ceasing to be a party to the occupation contract
1
If a joint contract-holder under an occupation contract dies, or ceases to be a party to the contract for some other reason, from the time he or she ceases to be a party the remaining joint contract-holders are—
a
fully entitled to all the rights under the contract, and
b
liable to perform fully every obligation owed to the landlord under the contract.
2
The joint contract-holder is not entitled to any right or liable to any obligation in respect of the period after he or she ceases to be a party to the contract.
3
Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) removes any right or waives any liability of the joint contract-holder accruing before he or she ceases to be a party to the contract.
4
This section does not apply where a joint contract-holder ceases to be a party to the contract because his or her rights and obligations under the contract are transferred in accordance with the contract.
5
This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all occupation contracts; section 20 provides that this section—
a
must be incorporated, and
b
must not be incorporated with modifications.