Agricultural Holdings Act 1986

16 No distress for rent due more than a year previously

(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, the landlord of an agricultural holding shall not be entitled to distrain for rent Which became due in respect of that holding more than one year before the making of the distress.

(2) Where it appears that, according to the ordinary course of dealing between the landlord and the tenant of the holding, the payment of rent has been deferred until the expiry of a quarter or half-year after the date at which the rent legally became due, the rent shall, for the purposes of subsection (1) above, be deemed to have become due at the expiry of that quarter or half-year and not at the date at which it became legally due.