Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993

Part II Procedure for giving copies to relevant landlords

Application of Part II

11 This Part of this Schedule has effect where a notice under section 13 is given in a case to which section 9(2) applies.

Qualifying tenants to give copies of initial notice

12 (1) The qualifying tenants by whom the initial notice is given shall, in addition to giving the initial notice to the reversioner in respect of the specified premises, give a copy of the notice to every other person known or believed by them to be a relevant landlord of those premises.

(2) The initial notice shall state whether copies are being given in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) to anyone other than the recipient and, if so, to whom.

Recipient of notice or copy to give further copies

13 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a recipient of the initial notice or of a copy of it (including a person receiving a copy under this sub-paragraph) shall forthwith give a copy to any person who—

(a) is known or believed by him to be a relevant landlord, and

(b) is not stated in the recipient’s copy of the notice, or known by him, to have received a copy.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply where the recipient is neither the reversioner nor another relevant landlord.

(3) Where a person gives any copies of the initial notice in accordance with sub-paragraph (1), he shall—

(a) supplement the statement under paragraph 12(2) by adding any further persons to whom he is giving copies or who are known to him to have received one; and

(b) notify the qualifying tenants by whom the initial notice is given of the persons added by him to that statement.

Consequences of failure to comply with paragraph 12 or 13

14 (1) Where—

(a) a relevant landlord of the specified premises does not receive a copy of the initial notice before the end of the period specified in it in pursuance of section 13(3)(g), but

(b) he was given a notice under section 11 by any of the qualifying tenants by whom the initial notice was given and, in response to the notice under that section, notified the tenant in question of his interest in the specified premises,

the initial notice shall cease to have effect at the end of that period.

(2) Where—

(a) sub-paragraph (1) does not apply, but

(b) any person fails without reasonable cause to comply with paragraph 12 or 13 above, or is guilty of any unreasonable delay in complying with either of those paragraphs,

he shall be liable for any loss thereby occasioned to the qualifying tenants by whom the initial notice was given or to the reversioner or any other relevant landlord.