PART 3PROVISIONS APPLYING TO ALL OCCUPATION CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 5JOINT CONTRACT-HOLDERS AND JOINT LANDLORDS
Joint contract-holders
I148Joint contract-holders: joint liability etc.
1
If there are two or more joint contract-holders under an occupation contract, each joint contract-holder is fully liable to the landlord for the performance of every obligation owed to the landlord under the contract.
2
References in this Act to the contract-holder, except where otherwise provided, are to the joint contract-holders.
3
Subsection (2) applies even if the occupation contract is a tenancy and the leasehold estate is vested in one or more, but not all, of the joint contract-holders.