PART 3PROVISIONS APPLYING TO ALL OCCUPATION CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 8DEALING
Succession
I183Succession: interpretation
1
This section applies for the purposes of interpreting this Act.
2
A contract-holder is a priority or reserve successor in relation to an occupation contract if he or she succeeded to the contract as a priority or reserve successor of the contract-holder in relation to that occupation contract who died.
3
If a contract-holder is a priority or reserve successor in relation to a fixed term standard contract, he or she is also a priority or reserve successor in relation to—
a
any periodic standard contract which arises under section 184(2) at the end of the fixed term, and
b
unless the contract provides otherwise, any contract under section 184(6).
4
If a contract-holder is a priority or reserve successor in relation to an occupation contract which is ended under section 220 (abandonment), he or she is also a priority or reserve successor in relation to any occupation contract under which he or she becomes the contract-holder as a result of an order under section 222(3)(b) (provision of suitable alternative accommodation on appeal).
5
A contract-holder to whom an occupation contract is transferred by, or in accordance with, a family property order is a priority or reserve successor in relation to the contract if the person from whom the contract was transferred was such a successor.
6
A contract-holder is a priority or reserve successor in relation to an occupation contract if his or her being treated as a priority or reserve successor was a condition of consent to a transaction relating to the contract.
7
Subsection (8) applies if, before the end of the period of six months starting with the day on which a secure contract (“the first contract”) ends—
a
the contract-holder under the first contract becomes a contract-holder under another secure contract ( “
the second contract
”
), and
b
either the dwelling or the landlord are the same under the second contract as under the first contract.
8
If the contract-holder was a priority or reserve successor in relation to the first contract he or she is also such a successor in relation to the second contract, unless the second contract provides otherwise.