Law of Property Act 1922

101Amendment of section 65 of the Conveyancing Act, 1881.

(1)A rent not exceeding the yearly sum of one pound which has not been collected or paid for a continuous period of twenty years or upwards shall, for the purposes of section sixty-five of the Conveyancing Act, 1881, be deemed to have ceased to be payable :

Provided that, of the said period, at least five years must have elapsed after the commencement of this Act.

(2)Where a rent, incident to a reversion expectant on a term to which section sixty-five aforesaid (as amended by any subsequent enactment) applies, is deemed to have ceased to be payable for the purposes aforesaid, then no claim for such rent or for any arrears thereof shall be capable of being enforced.