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.